Please note, we are hiring for one role - either the Media Director or Assistant Media Director level in our London, UK office. If you are interested in joining our team, please apply to the role you feel you are most suited to, and our process will help determine the right level for each candidate.
Lead & oversee the execution of innovative full-funnel marketing & fundraising strategies for leading NGOs, charities and brands. As a Director in the Paid Media Team, you'll oversee the strategic planning and execution of digital advertising campaigns across clients ranging from leading UK and global charities and UN bodies, to global brands and their CSR and/or policy engagement programmes.
You will know how to drive strong performance metrics for clients, whilst thinking holistically about the brand and how these metrics contribute to wider conversation about marketing budgets and long-term growth objectives. You will be a senior member of our paid media practice in London, supporting the Senior Director, Media in shaping processes and innovating our client channel mix to drive results.
This may be the right role for you if you’re someone who is equally strategic, creative, and analytical. Switching seamlessly from a client presentation to writing an insightful analysis of campaign performance, and rolling up your sleeves to launch advertising campaigns in new platforms are no big deal for you. You’re used to spending most of your day speaking in acronyms — terms like CPA, DSP, VTR, and ROAS are a natural part of your vocabulary — and you know how to explain them to clients and colleagues.
You will use your depth of experience to inform your work but also use your curiosity to keep ahead of the changing sector in order to ensure we’re innovating for our clients wherever possible.
Blue State is the purpose-driven creative and tech agency for brands and causes looking to inspire people to take action and drive create real change. With clients including the UNHCR, Google, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) and Oxfam, Blue State cultivates and mobilises communities, raises money and influences policy, builds platforms, and transforms how organisations engage their most important people. Led by some of the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency with 150+ employees in the US and London.
As part of the Media team, you’ll work closely with a cross-disciplinary group of Blue State employees on various projects. London is a small and close-knit team, where everyone has an opportunity to shape new approaches, grow and learn from their colleagues, and take advantage of a personal development fund to stretch their skills even further. You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the most inspiring charities, ambitious brands and passionate advocacy and social change campaigns.
We approach in-office working with a hybrid model, with presence in our office required at two days per week.
At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.
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We believe there’s no force more powerful than people taking collective action on the things they care about. When an organization wants to mobilize people around a common purpose, they come to us.
We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we know where to find them: in people. We listen, learn, and uncover new insights that often surprise us and our clients — and move us toward better results.
Blue State got its start on the campaign trail, pioneering the use of digital to open up the democratic process. Our new approach caught on, and we set out to do more good: raising millions more for nonprofits, shaping legislation and public opinion, and connecting consumers with brands. While our approach is continually evolving, our ethos has never changed:
Make good trouble.
When the status quo stands in the way of progress, we challenge it.
Be curious.
We ask the tough questions and let the data lead to answers.
Put people first.
We let the user drive the program, not the other way around.
Drive real change.
We obsess over outcomes and actions.
If you need it, build it.
We make stuff that empowers people to act on the things they care about.
Walk the walk.
Progress starts with us: our diversity, inclusion, and commitment to values over profits.
