Middle Seat Digital

Graphics Designer

• Want to break into political design? Get your start with us.
• As a graphic design intern at Middle Seat, you’ll work closely with our design team to support real campaigns and causes with impactful visuals.
• You’ll create social media graphics, digital ads, print collateral, branding assets, and more.
• You’ll be encouraged to bring your own creative voice while learning how to collaborate in a fast-paced political design environment.
• You’ll design graphics for email, social media, and digital ads.
• You’ll apply brand guidelines to new and existing creative.
• You’ll build simple animations (GIFs, video loops) and edit video clips.
• You’ll assist with print materials like flyers, proposals, and direct mail.
• You’ll support the creative team on larger design projects including identity design and web graphics.
• You’ll receive and implement feedback from designers, strategists, and clients.
• You’ll collaborate with strategists, developers, and other creatives to deliver cross-platform assets.

Graphic Design Intern, Summer 2026

Data Analyst

• Lead our data visualization and analytics work: Setup, upgrade, and troubleshoot both internal and external dashboards. Proactively provide analysis for ongoing work. Curate a culture of data-driven decision making and self-service analytics.
• Manage the lifecycle of data requests: Actively monitor and respond to the internal Slack data requests, engaging in timely back-and-forth communication with staff to clarify technical requirements, provide status updates, and ensure the final data delivery matches the strategic need.
• Document data standards and how-tos: Create and maintain clear documentation (data dictionaries and schema maps) for data sources and reporting logic to ensure a shared understanding of metrics across the agency.
• Train and support teammates on data products and digital tools: Provide technical training and assistance to team members. Offer guidance and support to teammates utilizing digital tools.
• Execute list rentals and buys: Lead the coordination and execution of internal and external email and phone data rentals and buys. Manage the secure transfer of PII.
• Cross-platform quality assurance: Perform regular audits to reconcile data discrepancies between CRMs (e.g., ActionKit vs. ActBlue) and reporting tools to ensure the "single source of truth" remains accurate.
• Support teammates in testing setup and rigor: Partner with strategy teams to design rigorous A/B tests for their different tactics, and analyze results to provide statistical confidence on high-performing content.
• Lead agency-wide data modelling: Design, deploy, validate, and improve models for strategy teams to use in their day-to-day work using rigorous statistical methods.
• Support the Data Department: Be a team player, provide support and feedback for technical projects led by the Data Department.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned by management, adapting to evolving business needs and contributing to the team’s success.

Performance Marketing

• Lead persuasion clients, owning their digital paid media and television strategy in partnership with Middle Seat’s TV department.
• Serve as the senior strategic lead for your accounts, guiding budget allocation, targeting, creative direction, and media mix.
• Coordinate closely with Middle Seat’s TV team to ensure:
• - Digital and television buys are aligned
• - Messaging is consistent across platforms
• - Flighting and targeting reinforce persuasion goals
• Embed yourself in the work of your clients (Slack, calls, listservs, etc.) to proactively guide persuasion strategy rather than simply respond to requests.
• Be available to advise clients as a general campaign consultant beyond paid media, including communications strategy, budgeting, and broader campaign decision making in your role as a media consultant.
• Track revenue and expenses, working with accounting and sales to balance staff costs, retainers, ad fees, and TV commissions.
• Identify when accounts should scale, expand into TV, or add new persuasion products such as CTV, testing, or creative.
• Lead or co-lead pitches for new persuasion clients, including candidates, IEs, and advocacy organizations.
• Ability to independently lead sales pitches and business development conversations, either solo or in partnership with other team members including the TV department and firm partners; an existing network to source new opportunities is a plus but not required.
• Develop a clear creative vision for persuasion campaigns, including writing and shaping scripts informed by polling, messaging research, and direct conversations with campaign teams, and translating that into both bold, creative-forward concepts.
• Manage the production process end to end by working closely with external production teams to coordinate shoots, oversee editing, and manage client feedback and revisions, ensuring a polished final video that meets strategic and campaign goals.
• Lead the planning and execution of digital persuasion campaigns platforms such as but not limited to Meta, YouTube, CTV, DSPs, and various direct to publisher contracts.
• Set high-level strategy, including:
• - Budgets and channel mix
• - Messaging frameworks
• - Targeting and testing plans
• Analyze and report campaign results to clients, translating performance into strategic recommendations.
• Own project management and timeline planning for persuasion programs, including scheduling client calls, setting scripting and production timelines, managing budgets against primary and election dates, and ensuring campaigns are launched on time and on plan.
• Train junior staff to plan and execute paid media buys
• Make recommendations for ads team management as a whole and assist with hiring for the entire ads team. Take part in weekly ads management meetings and discuss the growth of the ads team.
• Take part in the broader management of Middle Seat, including the sales process, team-wide issues, and communication of those efforts to staff.
• Encourage strong cross-team collaboration. Serve as a leader in developing strategy and new messaging ideas, collaborating with the email, creative, social, and web development teams to bolster our client’s advertising programs.
• Help develop and implement ads team processes and training.
• Other responsibilities as requested.

Senior Principal, Accounts – Paid Media

Project Manager

• Manage timelines, deliverables, budget, and workflows for paid media campaigns, with a primary focus on TV projects
• Create and maintain project plans, calendars, and status trackers
• Ensure deadlines are met across multiple concurrent projects and clients
• Flag risks, delays, or resource constraints early and proactively
• Serve as the primary point of contact for project coordination among TV strategists, production teams, vendors, and clients
• Facilitate internal check-ins, status meetings, and handoffs
• Ensure clear communication of expectations, next steps, and priorities
• Support client communications related to timelines, approvals, and deliverables
• Track feedback and ensure revisions and approvals stay on schedule
• Help prepare materials for client presentations or campaign updates
• Help document and refine project management processes within the TV Department
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, clarity, and collaboration
• Support scaling systems during high-volume periods (e.g., election cycles)
• Maintain organized documentation for campaigns and projects
• Assist with vendor coordination, invoicing workflows, or asset tracking as needed
• Fulfill other responsibilities as assigned

Project Manager, TV

Designer

• Work with clients to assess their needs and style requirements
• Think creatively and develop new design concepts, logos, visual identities, & graphics
• Collaborate with team members and clients on digital creative creation
• Generate print creative (flyers, proposals, literature, decks, mailers, etc.)
• Create and optimize of static web graphics
• Apply client branding and build web graphics for product web design templates
• Assist on website design with client communication, brand application, custom graphic creation, and UX design
• Create and optimize animated GIFs and more advanced motion graphics in video format
• Edit videos and DTCs
• Support in video production as needed
• Create and generate branding assets and collateral
• Amend final designs to align with team and client comments in order to gain final approval
• Other responsibilities as requested
• Work as part of a team with digital strategists, developers, client representatives, and other designers
• Collaborate in design discussions between the creative team and other Middle Seat teams
• Understand the current creative landscape in political design and ensure that we are helping set trends in the space -- not just responding to them
• Offer creative direction and feedback to designers on the Middle Seat team and design contractors as needed
• As needed, lead team training sessions on new tools, processes, and best practices
• Contribute to new client pitches
• Other responsibilities as requested

Graphic Design Intern, Summer 2026

Data Analyst

Senior Principal, Accounts – Paid Media

Project Manager, TV

Design Coordinator – Temporary