Senior Marketing Associate Jobs in Reston, VA (NOW HIRING)

Precision is an award-winning integrated strategy and marketing agency based in Washington, D.C., and New York, NY. Powered by data, we bring world-class experts in each of our service areas to conceive, develop, and run campaigns that help our clients seize opportunities and solve their biggest challenges.

We're at the center of today's biggest debates and defining moments, inside the Beltway, across New York's media and financial worlds, and in state capitals across the country. Our work sits at the intersection of politics, business, and culture, helping leaders and organizations make an impact when it matters most. We hire people who are the best at what they do, and who like to have fun doing it; we don't just break through. We break new ground.

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join the paid advertising team. Team members in this position will have a hands-on role in crafting, executing, and measuring cutting-edge digital paid media strategies for clients ranging from political campaigns to nonprofit advocacy groups to corporate public affairs. You'll be a great fit for this position if you are resourceful, eager to take initiative, driven by curiosity, and have a passion for learning within a fast-paced collaborative team environment.

What You Will Be Doing:

Client Management & Strategy

• Assist with administrative components of client accounts (e.g. agenda, notes, project tracking).
• Able to manage small projects and work streams.
• Engages across teams and works respectfully and effectively with others.
• Knows resources to use when gathering information and is resourceful in finding answers on their own.
• Conducts research to support problem-solving and strategic goals, knowing when to escalate issues.

Paid Media

• Lead the execution of multiple paid media campaigns across a variety of platforms with little or no supervision.
• Manage daily and weekly interactions with vendor partners for each campaign and monitor performance.
• Execute of a limited set of paid media campaigns across social channels
• Set up campaigns as needed, handle trafficking, and monitor performance.
• Analyze data and produce high quality reporting.
• Articulate paid media strategy and decisions to assigned clients
• Assist with development of media plans and independently develop media plans for small- to mid-size client campaigns.

Team Collaboration

• Engage across teams and work respectfully and effectively with others.
• Communicate effectively in 1:1 or small groups and deliver presentations to internal audiences.
• Contribute to team learning by sharing knowledge with peers and supporting new team members.

Project & Time Management

• Own assigned tasks (e.g. updates trackers, meets deadlines without reminders, organizes documents for team sharing, and understands how work ladders up to the larger goal).
• Meet deadlines set by client lead.

What We Are Looking For:

• 2+ years of professional experience in paid media strategy, planning, and/or execution, ideally in an in-house or agency setting. Internship experience considered.
• Ability to see patterns in seas of data and passion for storytelling through digital analytics.
• Familiarity with standard advertising audiences in the public affairs, advocacy, and political space
• A resourceful, positive attitude and an eagerness to solve problems.
• Great attention to detail and strong organizational skills fluency with Excel a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative, energetic, detail-oriented and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit.

What We Will Give You:

• Competitive salaries
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Flexible hybrid remote/in office plan
• Retirement plan with automatic 3% safe-harbor contribution from Precision
• Healthcare coverage - medical, dental and vision with 90% of costs covered by Precision
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Floating holidays
• Professional development stipend

We are currently working in a hybrid model and require staff to work in the office 50% of the working days in the month.

The salary range for this role is $62,000-80,000.

Precision is committed to building a diverse team that will positively and authentically impact the communities we serve. Centering our strategies around the authentic voices and cultures of the communities we are engaging with is paramount to our work and our work can only be as inclusive as our team is representative. We strongly encourage women, Black, Latino, Hispanic, AAPI, and Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, gender expansive or GNC folks, people of all ages, disabled people, and veterans to apply.