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# Contract Associate Director, Media Creative (Evergreen) at Blue State

- **Company:** Blue State
- **Location:** New York, NY / Washington, DC / Oakland, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-05-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://www.bluestate.co/careers/?gh_jid=7891941

## Job description

Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities. Please note: this is an "evergreen" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren't ongoing, we're excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State's mission.

If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.

What to know

The Associate Director of Media Creative sits at the intersection of the paid media, accounts, and creative teams to ensure cross-team alignment. The person in this role will serve as a liaison between teams, developing best practices to ensure that our paid media campaigns are fully integrated across paid media strategy, creative development, and client relationship management. The person in the role will span client engagements, including the agency as well as our growing political practice at Blue State.The person in this role should have an expert understanding of paid media and creative development. The person in this role will help shape how Blue State client teams can deliver and execute thoughtful paid media campaigns to deliver results for clients. The person in this role should be able to oversee a paid media program throughout its lifespan—from developing initial budgets and timelines in the proposal process, to aligning strategy & creative production and reporting to clients on optimizations & performance.

This role is client-facing, requiring a diplomatic and solution-oriented demeanor. The Associate Director, Media Creative keeps a pulse on the needs and bandwidth of all teammates and balances those needs with client demands. They have a significant track record coordinating paid media campaigns and creative production processes of various sizes and budgets

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency in the US and London.

The team

As part of the Paid Media team, you’ll work closely with a cross-disciplinary group of Blue State employees who are passionate, geeky, and care about their clients and causes. Blue State fosters an environment 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.

A day in the life

- Drive cross-team alignment by interfacing with Blue State accounts, creative, and media teams to develop and refine creative strategy in lockstep with paid media plans and goals, facilitating creative production, delivery, and project management across teams.
- Serve as a liaison to internal discipline teams to develop, document, and refine a high-functioning cross-team paid media practice at Blue State.
- Lead client relationships in service of creative collaboration and development—ensuring alignment of goals, creative execution, and timelines, and escalating issues to senior team members as needed.
- Communicate clearly and consistently across internal process documentation and dissemination, and bring strong presentation skills to share learnings across the agency.
- Train and equip teammates by facilitating onboarding and ongoing training for accounts and creative leads on best practices and processes for managing paid media accounts.
- Manage projects with rigor by creating clear project plans that integrate creative and paid media goals, working closely with creative leads to manage scope and client objectives, facilitating internal and client meetings (and follow-ups), and overseeing final approval of deliverables before they reach clients.
- Translate creative briefs into actionable steps, plans, budgets, and timelines across channels and teams.
- Estimate work accurately for the paid media team and other creative processes—projecting hours and a clear sense of lift from other disciplines.
- Support team and business growth by contributing to team development, business development efforts, and case studies.
- Balance priorities across multiple projects, managing your own time and others’ with exemplary attention to detail and organization.

We approach in-office working with a hybrid model. On-site presence is welcome for US staff who are within commuting distance of the NY or DC office. Managers retain discretion to require in-person attendance for folks on their discipline or client teams as necessary, including for those whose roles require them to be in person.

The salary range for this position is $65-$85 per hour; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Some things we’re looking for

- 8+ years of experience leading paid media campaigns and creative production processes of varying sizes and budgets, ideally including political or advocacy work.
- You have an expert understanding of paid media strategy, planning, and execution, paired with strong fluency in creative development and production workflows.
- You can oversee a paid media program throughout its lifespan—from developing initial budgets and timelines in the proposal process, to aligning strategy and creative production, to reporting back to clients on optimizations and performance.
- You have excellent project management chops: you create clear project plans that integrate creative and paid media goals, manage scope alongside creative leads, and facilitate internal and client meetings (and follow-ups) without dropping a thread.
- You’ve mastered client relationship building and management in service of creative collaboration—diplomatic, solution-oriented, and able to escalate appropriately.
- You communicate clearly and consistently, both in internal process documentation and in presenting learnings across an agency.
- You have a track record of training and leveling up colleagues on paid media best practices and processes.
- You can quickly and accurately estimate projects, hours, and lift required from other disciplines.
- You have exemplary attention to detail and organization, balancing multiple priorities and managing your own time and others’ well.
- You’re a thoughtful, organized teammate who isn’t afraid to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate proactively with those around you.

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.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started

Your privacy is important to us.  You can find out more information on how we handle your data for recruiting purposes in our [Privacy Policy for Recruitment](https://www.bluestate.co/privacy-policy-for-recruitment/).

## About Blue State

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blue State is a purpose-driven creative and technology agency that partners with causes, companies, and campaigns to mobilize people around a common purpose.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2004 (some sources cite 2009; the company’s origin as Blue State Digital traces to 2004, with the agency formally launched in 2009)
- **Founders**: Joe Rospars (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Services, Digital Strategy, Fundraising & Grassroots Mobilization, Strategic Communications, Technology Consulting
- **Target customers**: Nonprofits, political campaigns, mission-driven brands, forward-thinking organizations (B2B, B2G, B2C for causes)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We believe there’s no force more powerful than people taking collective action on the things they care about.”

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Fundraising & Growth Strategy**: Data-driven fundraising programs, donor acquisition and retention, and growth planning for nonprofits and campaigns.
- **Grassroots Mobilization**: Building and scaling grassroots movements through community organizing, volunteer engagement, and advocacy tools.
- **Customer Engagement Strategy**: Personalized, insight-led experiences that turn customers into brand champions.
- **Strategic Communications & Video**: Messaging, storytelling, and video production that shape influence and drive public opinion.
- **Technology Consulting & Web Development**: Custom platforms, CRM integrations, data architecture, and website design/development (often using Drupal, WordPress, Snowflake, etc.).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at $25M–$50M (LinkedIn, 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (privately held). Key past clients include Obama for America, Elizabeth Warren for President, and numerous national nonprofits. Strategic partners referenced include EveryAction (now Bonterra) and various tech platforms.
- **Growth Signals**: Job postings surged +557% YoY (from low base), with 46 active openings as of mid-2025. However, headcount decreased 19% YoY (to ~105 employees), suggesting a shift in skill mix. Office expansion includes locations in London, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and Brooklyn HQ.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Political campaign DNA**: Pioneered digital organizing and online fundraising for presidential campaigns, giving deep expertise in high-stakes, fast-moving mobilization.
- **Data-first, people-first approach**: Combines rigorous analytics (using tools like Tableau, Snowflake, Python, dbt) with human-centered design.
- **End-to-end capability**: From creative and content to technology build and CRM strategy, the agency offers integrated services under one roof.
- **Purpose-driven brand**: Strong mission alignment attracts talent and clients who want to drive social change, not just commercial growth.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding into commercial brand work** while retaining nonprofit and political roots.
- **Deepening data and technology offerings** – hiring for analytics, product management, and engineering roles.
- **Building a global presence** – offices in US and UK, with remote/hybrid flexibility.
- **Growing paid media and customer engagement** practices (evidenced by new Media Strategist and Media Planner roles).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values-driven agency with a clear social mission (“Make good trouble,” “Put people first”). Emphasis on curiosity, data-led decisions, and collective action.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Flexible – Built In notes “typical time on-site: none,” with many roles listed as “Contract (Evergreen)” and open to multiple cities. Offices available in NY, DC, LA, Boston, and London.
- **Notable perks**: Unlimited PTO, generous parental and family leave, childcare benefits, 401(k) matching, healthcare/dental/vision, commuter benefits, job training and conference attendance.
- **Engineering/tech culture**: Small tech team (~8% of workforce) that works closely with strategists and creatives; tech stack includes Python, React, Drupal, Snowflake, dbt, GitHub Actions, and modern data tools.

## Sources
1. [Blue State Official Site](https://www.bluestate.co/)
2. [Blue State About/Who We Are](https://www.bluestate.co/who-we-are/)
3. [Blue State Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluestatedigital)
4. [Blue State LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-state)
5. [Blue State on Built In](https://builtin.com/company/blue-state)

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