Senior Account Executive, Legacy

Berkeley, CA (Remote)

$85K/yr – $94K/yrSenior Level9+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the strategic direction and cross‑channel leadership of planned giving programs for nonprofit clients, turning goals into multi‑year plans and actionable campaigns with strong client, team, and vendor coordination.

  • Drive cross‑functional ownership of plan development, execution, and reporting to optimize planned giving outcomes.
  • Align segmentation, messaging, and analytics with client goals to improve impact and benchmark performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop client annual plans in coordination with the Senior Account Director or Vice President
  • Prepare and interpret reports/analysis that evaluate client’s planned giving marketing programs with recommendations for improvements in alignment with client goals
  • Design, implement, and evaluate segmentation strategies, to develop effective segmentation for Planned Giving direct response marketing campaigns.
  • Ensure agency reporting is in alignment with client campaign strategy
  • Understand internal and industry benchmarking and trends
  • Develop year-long and multi-year planned giving marketing strategies aligned with client goals
  • Prepare and present annual plan to clients
  • Provide strategic leadership of client programs
  • Oversee implementation of client’s annual plan
  • Prepare, finalize and present strategy decks

Requirements

  • Minimum years of experience required: 9 years in nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy, with at least 4 to 6 years in nonprofit planned giving fundraising and marketing
  • Direct marketing, especially fundraising and/or advocacy
  • Knowledge base of planned giving concepts and marketing techniques
  • Experience in strategic and production management of direct marketing projects
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Demonstrated effective use of digital tools to manage internal and external workflow and communication
  • Willingness to travel
  • Interest in working as a member of a larger team and across multiple projects, clients, and social issues
  • Comfort building long-term relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
  • An inclination to work among colleagues dedicated to approaching work with a lens of social justice, anti-racism, and anti-oppression

Preferred

  • Donor facing experience in Planned giving fundraising experience helpful/preferred
  • Multi-client experience and digital marketing experience strongly preferred
  • Experience with or curiosity for exploring the ethical use of AI tools and agents

Benefits

  • Participation in our Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), which allows every employee-owner to share in the growth and prosperity of the company
  • Employer-sponsored and paid core benefits: Health (multiple carrier options), Dental, Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employer-matching FSA dollars
  • 35% employer share of cost for dependent health insurance
  • Additional optional benefits with employee share of cost: Vision, Medical & Dependent Care FSA, Commuter benefits, Pet Care Plan
  • 401(k) with automatic employer-sponsored contributions equal to 3%
  • Equalized profit sharing
  • Paid Time Off, including: 13 company holidays, Early release every Friday and on days preceding company holidays, Vacation time – starting at 15 days per year (increases over tenure), Sick Leave – 1 day per month, Personal time – 3 days per year, Paid Parental Leave – 8 weeks, Volunteer Leave – 3 days per year
  • Philanthropic Fund with corporate match for employee charitable contributions, and other opportunities for staff-directed corporate donations
  • Access to industry conferences & professional development opportunities
  • A remote-first work environment with access to offices for local staff (Berkeley | DC)
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Our team of expert consultants develops innovative direct marketing-driven donor development programs for exceptional nonprofit causes like yours. Our unique blend of fundraising experience, superior strategy, insightful analysis, and ground-breaking creative will help you: - Grow your donor base- Increase your revenue- Build strong donor relationships We partner with our clients to develop programs with lasting value. Building - and maintaining - strong relationships is at the core of what we do.

Founded in 1981
Berkeley, California, USA