Bully Pulpit International

Communications

• Serve as the primary point of contact for senior-level decision-makers, offering real-time strategic counsel with minimal oversight.
• Set the strategy for and oversee the execution of earned and owned media campaigns, ensuring they align with the client’s long-term goals.
• Shepherd projects across multi-disciplinary service teams, including media planning, media buying, creative, measurement, and data insights.
• Oversee the production of everything from high-level strategic memos and communications plans to tactical press releases, op-eds, and social media content.
• Proactively develop earned media strategies, leveraging existing reporter relationships to place stories that move the needle on key issues.
• Manage internal teams across different offices to ensure quality control and adherence to tight deadlines.
• Act as a coach and/or direct manager for junior staff, providing clear feedback and supporting their professional development.
• Partner with agency leadership to identify, draft, and present proposals for new business opportunities.
• Expand existing accounts while establishing trust with prospective clients through compelling pitch decks and presentations.

Director – Strategic Communications

Procurement

• Field and vet all inbound Client Services staffing requests, bringing solutions that balance client needs with team expertise and agency profitability.
• Lead the cultural shift from a siloed team structure to a centralized resource pool, requiring sophisticated change management skills to build trust with leadership and staff.
• Work with leaders across accounts to validate staff plans, identify skills gaps, and course-correct when there is a misalignment.
• Participate in high-level portfolio conversations, providing "business of the business" insights to leadership regarding team level, mix, and new talent needs.
• Act as the "Single Source of Truth" owner, finalizing time-entry and forecasting policies, ensuring data integrity across our suite of tracking systems.
• Develop and enforce a prioritization matrix for staffing requests.
• Design and maintain forward-looking capacity models (12-month outlook) to identify "at-risk" roles or accounts, and structural skill gaps before they impact delivery.
• Work with Head of Talent to map talent databases to ensure staffing assignments align not just with "availability," but with specific skillsets and client growth.
• Collaborate with mentors and team leads to bridge the gap between self-reported skills and actual performance.
• Proactively flag sustained over-utilization or "bench" risks, recommending corrective actions to maintain a healthy work-life balance for the agency.
• Drive high 'data hygiene' and timesheet compliance through cultural incentives rather than just technical enforcement.
• Evaluate and implement automation tools only when they serve to reduce administrative friction for the staff, not add to it.

Director/Senior Director, Client Team Resourcing

• Assist in developing the communications strategy for public affairs campaigns
• Work closely with clients to identify their needs or challenges and recommend targeted, bespoke solutions
• Craft and carry messages, pitch reporters, developing written copy that inspires, synthesizing results into actionable solutions
• Derive energy from working in a close-knit, cross functional team environment
• Develop initial communications strategies for local, regional, national, and/or global audiences
• Draft press releases, blogs, op-eds, briefing documents, organic content, and other communications materials with limited revision needed
• Continue to develop and maintain relationships with influential media to secure and grow coverage
• Pitch and secure press coverage for clients with ease
• Plan and assist in executing events and key moments for clients

Associate, Strategic Communications

Art Director

• Establish and articulate what best-in-class brand reputation & public affairs paid and organic social campaigns look like
• Guide the team producing social-first brand reputation and public affairs practices, influencer marketing, and key brand moments in the news and cultural landscape
• Ensure clients have strategic, thoughtful, and thumb-stopping creative campaigns across social media platforms

Social Creative Director

Manager

• Own campaign success through strategic set-up, quality assurance, ongoing monitoring, optimizations, and proactive recommendations for improvement.
• Provide data-driven strategic input and insightful campaign analysis to client services, media planners, and directly to clients as needed.
• Create, share and manage comprehensive documentation and training materials on the team's buying process and best practices.
• Evaluate platform releases, new ad tech, and tools to assess how they might fit into BPI’s buying stack, providing recommendations for broader team adoption.
• Develop paid media reports that clearly demonstrate campaign progress toward client goals and provide actionable insights for further optimization.
• Assist in broader team management by helping prioritize task flow and ensuring consistent quality of work across the team.

Director – Strategic Communications

Director/Senior Director, Client Team Resourcing

Associate, Strategic Communications

Social Creative Director

Media Manager – Buying