Middle Seat Digital

General

• As an advertising intern at Middle Seat, you’ll work with the advertising team by trafficking ads, writing ad copy and petitions, pulling together reports, analyzing ads performance, handling some administrative tasks, and other responsibilities as requested.
• Work collaboratively with the advertising team

Digital Ads Intern – Fall 2026

Graphics Designer

• Want to break into political design? Get your start with us. Middle Seat is a full-service firm for progressive causes and candidates. We work with campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and causes on the front lines of racial justice, climate action, privacy and tech policy, immigration rights, and economic justice.
• We’re looking for a creative, driven design intern to join our creative team for FALL 2026 (August 24 - November 13, 2026).
• 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.
• This role is available either in person at our Washington, D.C office or remotely. This role is not part of the bargaining unit.
• You’ll get experience in:
• Designing graphics for email, social media, and digital ads
• Applying brand guidelines to new and existing creative
• Building simple animations (GIFs, video loops) and editing video clips
• Assisting with print materials like flyers, proposals, and direct mail
• Supporting the creative team on larger design projects including identity design and web graphics
• Receiving and implementing feedback from designers, strategists, and clients
• Collaborating with strategists, developers, and other creatives to deliver cross-platform assets

Graphic Design Intern, Fall 2026

• Write compelling fundraising and organizing emails
• Writing embodies the voices and perspectives of our clients, with no edits needed
• Expertly adapts writing to various calls-to-action
• Writing always deploys effective theories of change
• Work with clients to get emails edited, approved, and scheduled
• Solicits, accepts, processes, and incorporates copy feedback, from both senior team members and clients
• Provides valuable and constructive copy feedback to more junior team members
• Plays a role in helping to develop the copywriting skills of junior team members
• Code, produce, target and test mass email communications
• Email code is complete and accurate, with no errors. Requires no troubleshooting. Can troubleshoot intermediate and complex code issues.
• Follows our internal testing processes; sends email tests to team members for review and approval
• Frequently volunteers to review and approve tests for others. Nearly always catches and rectifies errors before they launch.
• Launches emails to targeted audiences with no mistakes
• Use multiple different CRMs to run email programs (ActionKit, BSD, Action Network, NationBuilder, MailChimp, etc.)
• Has mastered all CRM(s) used by their client(s)
• Has become fluent in 1-2 additional CRMs
• Trains and mentors junior team members on learning new CRMs
• Analyze metrics and report back to clients on performance, best practices, test results
• Compiles metrics into cohesive, thorough, well-structured reports
• Analyzes those reports; derives strategic guidance from them
• Presents reports, analyses, and strategic guidance to clients with no assistance
• Mentors and/or manages junior team members in producing client reports
• Present detailed monthly reports to clients
• Can independently build, present, and explain monthly reports to clients.
• Can also successfully coach junior team members through the process of building monthly reports; provides valuable and constructive feedback
• Serve as a day-to-day contact with clients.
• Communicates extremely well with clients regularly
• Is very responsive to client needs and requests
• Frequently proactively anticipates and responds to client needs
• Take part in brainstorms, team meetings, conference calls, etc.
• Contributes significantly — and frequently leads, and volunteers to lead — brainstorms, team meetings, and other internal meetings
• Develop monthly content calendars and goals for clients
• Develops cohesive calendars that align with email scheduling best practices, with no assistance
• Sets fundraising goals that are appropriate to their clients’ programs and overall industry standards, with no assistance
• Helps hold junior team members accountable to following calendars and reaching goals
• A/B test everything you do
• Recommends innovative testing ideas
• Conducts tests independently
• Successfully concludes tests; compiles and presents test results
• Holds junior team members accountable to following testing protocols
• Assists junior team members with testing procedures and reports
• Produce ActBlue fundraising pages and tests
• Builds fundraising pages that align with both client branding and digital fundraising best practices, with no assistance
• Regularly audits fundraising pages; works with the product team to ensure fundraising page wrappers are updated
• Write copy for landing pages
• Writes cohesive, appropriate, concise landing page copy, with no assistance
• Contribute significantly to new client pitches
• Provides appropriate, relevant content to new client pitches; proactively seeks out opportunities to contribute
• Content requires no editing, revising, and feedback
• Directly manage junior email team members
• Plays a direct managerial role for at least one junior team member
• Schedules and holds regular check-ins with direct reports to discuss professional development, growth, and progress
• Contribute to employee goals, training, and growth
• Works with direct reports to develop and actualize professional development goals
• Helps to train junior employees; helps to on-board new employees
• Manages the performance evaluation process, with assistance
• Delivers and conducts employee performance evaluations, with supervision
• Run training sessions
• Runs training sessions to teach new/junior team members and improve team knowledge
• Recommends training topics; manages the process of developing and delivering corresponding trainings
• Give feedback on programming and drafts
• Provides constructive, thorough, well-thought-out copy feedback and edits
• Reviews email code for issues or irregularities; recommends effective solutions
• Project management
• Independently manages projects
• Manage junior team members on projects
• Teaches project management skills to junior team members
• Lead on setting up new client accounts
• Effectively manages new client setup and onboarding
• Work with our product team to develop landing pages and templates
• Coordinate with the product team to produce on-brand landing pages and templates that embody digital best practices
• Set up CRMs
• Sets up and/or transition over to a new CRM instance for a client
• Play a role in the management of Middle Seat’s email team
• Recommends improvements to email team systems
• Helps streamline email team processes
• Contributes to the process of interviewing and recruiting new email team members
• Assists with determining client and backup allocation and team member workloads

Managing Digital Strategist

• Run ad campaigns and support ads team: take the first pass at writing content, reviews (spell check, policy check) staff content, coordinate with other Middle Seat departments to make sure product pieces are moving forward for ad campaigns, gather and compile data for reports
• Write compelling ad copy with clear theories of change asking supporters to donate, join or support our clients while embodying our clients’ voices and perspectives.
• Sets up and reviews ad campaigns – on all platforms (Facebook, Google, List Vendors, etc.) and begins to think strategically about campaign goals
• Begins to learn best practices for direct donate, acquisition, and persuasion campaigns; learns which tests to run and how to read results; begins thinking about ads campaigns as they integrate into an entirely digital program and into an organization’s mission, and begins to give strategic feedback and ideas
• Serves as day-to-day contact with the clients they are assigned to work in collaboration with other ads team members
• Assists with A/B testing everything — content, design, targeting, landing page, etc.
• Other responsibilities as requested

Digital Advertising Coordinator – Temporary

• Writes first drafts of email content (with supervision)
• Writes first drafts of content for donation forms and landing pages (with supervision)
• Helps podmates to get content reviewed, edited, and ready to ship to clients for final approval
• Learns how to use theories of change in email copy
• Learns how to produce and launch emails
• Learns basic HTML, CSS, and SQL as needed
• Learns basic CRM functionalities
• Learns the basics of email testing
• Learns how to pull, read, and interpret email performance metrics
• Learns how to set up donation forms and other landing pages
• Learns email reporting; can contribute to email reporting (with supervision)
• Keeps email reports up-to-date
• Attends brainstorms and other internal team meetings
• Attends client meetings
• Occasionally contributes ideas to email calendars
• Updates email calendars as needed
• Proofs peer emails, checking for accuracy and functionality
• Other responsibilities as requested

Digital Coordinator, Email – Temporary

Account Manager

• Serve as day-to-day point of contact for 3-5 multi-service client accounts: contributing to deliverable planning, project management, and internal coordination and supporting senior leadership as needed. This includes large advocacy organizations and/or campaigns.
• Deliver clear, compelling updates to clients – presenting topline performance, key trends, and strategic recommendations – with support from senior leadership as needed.
• Support client management norms, including processes and communications.
• Lead client calls and support prep work, agendas, note-taking, and action item follow-up.
• Flag potential client issues/risks early and contribute to internal solutions.
• Coordinate internal staff across copy, creative, and reporting to ensure smooth execution.
• Maintain deliverable trackers, calendars, and pacing docs across service departments (email, ads, texts, etc.).
• Draft internal briefs and client-ready updates in coordination with staff from across verticals.
• Document learnings, best practices, and client documentation across accounts.
• Grow into client ownership over time, taking on increased responsibility and leadership as skills develop.
• Own daily/weekly/monthly performance tracking for each client’s program, including creating and updating projections and budget updates with input from verticals and leadership.
• Flag over- or under-spend risks to leadership with recommendations.
• Surface growth opportunities, testing strategies, and optimizations.
• Learn, implement, and contribute to Middle Seat SOPs (onboarding, reporting, internal workflows) with guidance.
• Own upselling opportunities (i.e., pitching new services or scaling client budgets) within current client accounts.
• Support in external business development (creating sales and marketing materials, conducting sales research, attending client meetings, etc.)
• Identify opportunities to improve client-facing processes based on experience and feedback from internal teams and clients, and help develop those materials.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.
• This role requires occasional domestic travel, approximately 2-3 times per quarter, for in-person client meetings, networking opportunities, and industry events.

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