Media & Advertising Associate

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$53K/yr – $61K/yrIntern/New Grad2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize paid digital campaigns across multiple platforms, ensuring accurate IOs, timely payments, and asset updates while monitoring budgets and performance trends to inform client strategy.

  • Growth & Optimization: Manage cross-platform campaigns (Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn, Twitter, Campaign Manager 360) and adjust spend to stay within approved budgets.
  • Asset & Vendor Coordination: Upload audiences, execute IOs, and ensure timely, accurate vendor payments while coordinating creative swaps and administrative tasks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Traffic digital advertising campaigns in variety of self-serve ad platforms, including Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Campaign Manager 360
  • Create and execute IO requests for managed service platforms
  • Ensure vendor payments are timely and accurate
  • Upload digital assets such as targeting audiences to self-serve ad platforms, updating and maintaining them as needed
  • Pace active campaigns to ensure spending is in line with approved budgets
  • Execute creative swaps following a preset schedule as well as on request
  • Identify performance trends across clients that can lead to actionable changes in client strategy
  • Perform research and other administrative duties, as necessary

Requirements

  • Motivated, hard-working professional with 0-2 years of experience
  • Someone who is excited to work for our Democratic and progressive clients, ideally with experience at a campaign, agency, or political organization
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate and effectively communicate and solve practical problems or issues
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, often under tight deadlines
  • Superior project and time management capabilities within a fast-paced, high productivity environment
  • Able to work and communicate within a team structure while able to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Working knowledge of digital advertising platforms including Meta, Google Ads, and Campaign Manager 360 preferred, but not required
  • Working knowledge of media planning preferred, but not required

Preferred

  • Working knowledge of digital advertising platforms including Meta, Google Ads, and Campaign Manager 360 preferred, but not required
  • Working knowledge of media planning preferred, but not required
  • Passion for politics, technology, and digital media
  • Flexibility and willingness to learn
  • Competency with Mac and PC computers including troubleshooting and basic networking knowledge

Benefits

  • Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-funded health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for employee; healthcare flexible spending account; employee assistance plan; 401k plan with employer match; student loan repayment plan with employer match; monthly cell phone and public transit allowance; work from home stipend; professional development stipend; open leave, paid parental leave, paid holidays; and more.
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Rising Tide Interactive

Rising Tide Interactive is a full-service digital marketing agency dedicated to using data-driven strategy to achieve results that matter for our clients. We build winning digital programs by marrying our clients’ unique stories and goals with top notch design, compelling narrative and precise targeting. We specialize in a range of services including advertising, social media, email fundraising, video and creative design.Rising Tide Interactive is strongly committed to employing our knowledge of the internet to create positive change – helping candidates and organizations who focus on promoting social justice. And you can count on us to do it all: manage multi-million dollar fundraising programs, recruit grassroots donors and activists, persuade and turn out key voters, and mobilize audiences big and small.

Founded in 2010
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
38 employees (13 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.9%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~38

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (32% of company)