Managing Director, Digital Strategy

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate senior client leadership for high-stakes digital and strategic comms, turning executive vision into multi-channel campaigns and shaping the agency’s growth and talent engine.

  • Strategic ownership: guide C-suite level direction, messaging architecture, and deliverable governance across memos, briefs, assets, and paid/social outputs.
  • Team and practice leadership: grow a multidisciplinary team, coach leaders, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery aligned with client priorities.
  • Business growth and thought leadership: originate major new business, expand the client base, and raise the firm's external profile through content and senior relationships.

Job Description

Own and orchestrate senior client leadership for high-stakes digital and strategic comms, turning executive vision into multi-channel campaigns and shaping the agency’s growth and talent engine.

  • Serve as a senior strategic advisor to Partners and Executive Leadership across a portfolio of high-impact accounts, helping shape client vision, long-term strategy, and integrated digital communications programs.
  • Act as the primary senior relationship owner, engaging directly with C-suite and executive-level decision-makers to guide direction, anticipate needs, and ensure flawless delivery of high-stakes digital and strategic communications work.
  • Drive high-level strategic development, including narrative, messaging, digital campaign architecture, and multi platform content strategy—while providing rigorous review, direction, and approval across all deliverables (memos, briefs, digital assets, presentations, paid social, etc.).
  • Stay deeply informed on real-time political, cultural, policy, and technology developments, proactively translating fast-moving shifts into actionable recommendations and strategic pivots for clients.
  • Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing multidisciplinary team, developing future agency leaders through structured coaching, real-time feedback, and long-term career path planning.
  • Set and uphold the standard for operational excellence, ensuring teams consistently deliver high-quality, strategic work on time, under budget, and aligned with client priorities.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration across offices and departments, breaking down silos and driving seamless integration across digital, creative, strategy, public affairs, and analytics teams.
  • Model clear, transparent communication and empower teams with the context and guidance they need to excel in a fast-paced client environment.
  • Partner with senior leadership to originate, shape, and close major new business opportunities, leading strategy development, proposal creation, and pitch delivery for complex digital and communications programs.
  • Strengthen and expand the agency’s client base, maintaining strong relationships with existing clients while identifying, cultivating, and converting new prospects.
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Bully Pulpit International

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Bully Pulpit International (BPI) is an outcomes agency at the intersection of business, politics, and policy. Born in politics and founded by leaders of the Obama campaign, we apply our unique expertise from these experiences to create sophisticated and customized strategies for companies, causes and candidates. Our clients include established market leaders, new economy firms, philanthropists, CEOs, and elected officials. What these varied brands share in common is the growing need to establish differentiated and lasting bonds with their consumers in a world of fragmented media, deep skepticism, and rapidly changing culture. Reputation has never been more relevant to business ROI, and in our view requires consumers to believe — not only in what a brand is saying, but also in why. We combine proprietary technology and deeper insights to build believers with the speed and agility that today’s market requires.At Bully Pulpit International, we make change possible. To us, this is more than a commitment—it's a passion. Because we truly believe in the work we do.

Founded in 2009
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
270 employees (95 in marketing)
63% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.6%
Direct
46%
Referral
5.7%
Social
15%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~270

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (29% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2023
    Series Unknown
  • Sep 2016
    Series Unknown

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