Director

Seeker Strategies is looking for the next fantastic hire to join our team! If you have 6+ years of experience in political, nonprofit, or corporate communications and are looking for your next challenge, get in touch. 

As a Director at Seeker Strategies, you will work for various organizations, including labor unions, nonprofits, small businesses, executives, progressive causes, and Fortune 500 companies. Our work touches on the top issues facing Texas and the nation, and we pride ourselves on our creativity, curiosity, and knack for moving at the speed of a competitive political campaign.

Seeker Strategies is proud to work on critical social issues, including education, environmental protection, equity, financial inequality, gun violence, health care, and immigration, to shape public policy, discourse, and opinion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and executing comprehensive earned media strategies.
• Enhancing client relations, including direct account engagement, coordinating meetings, and steering project timelines and deliverables.
• Managing and expanding relationships with media, including pitching and securing coverage for our clients.
• Overseeing media monitoring for projects to inform strategy and clients.
• Writing creatively and precisely in speeches, op-eds, narratives, memos, and proposals to align with message imperatives, tone, clarity, and AP Style.
• Preparing media training and public-speaking coaching materials and advising high-level principals.
• Assessing clients’ existing communications strategy, tactics, and messaging and recommending strategy and deliverables.
• Leading small client teams and managing staff.
• Tracking client deliverables and timelines.
• Maintaining regular client communication, including reporting.
• Supporting the development of new business proposals and ideas.

Requirements

• 6+ of experience in communications roles within political campaigns, media, government, agencies, or related sectors.
• Proven track record of securing media coverage; including, expertise with ethnic, niche, and non-traditional media.
• Someone proactive and creative in implementing effective media strategies.
• Exceptional writing and research capabilities, with proficiency in AP Style.
• Expertise in leveraging social media within comprehensive communications strategies.
• Outstanding organizational skills, with an acute attention to detail.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting tight deadlines.
• Familiarity with G-suite and media monitoring software such as Meltwater, Cision, etc. 
• Spanish language proficiency is preferred but not required.

Work Environment and Essential Physical Requirements

We prefer that the Director work in person at our office or in a hybrid capacity. This position may require occasional night and weekend hours.

Even if working entirely in person, the person in this position must be able to communicate with colleagues and partners via phone, including conference and video calls, and written communication, such as email. The position requires the ability to work on a computer for all or part of the workday.  

We are an organization that deeply understands the importance of diverse voices, and we strongly encourage applications from individuals in historically marginalized and underrepresented communities. 

Benefits

Seeker Strategies believes the target base compensation in this role is $90,000. In addition to base salary, Seeker considers other critical components of total compensation, such as an annual discretionary bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package. Various factors, such as skillset, level of experience, and location, influence actual base compensation.

Additional Benefits at Seeker Strategies include

• Medical Insurance (100% of premium covered for employees) 
• Dental and Vision Insurance (100% of premium covered for employees)
• Retirement Plan 
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

TIMELINE

We will review applications on a rolling basis, with priority review given to earlier applications. The deadline for applications is June 28. The target start date for this position is July 22. 

Seeker Strategies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression of an otherwise qualified individual, or membership in any other class protected by applicable law.

ABOUT SEEKER STRATEGIES

Seeker Strategies is a progressive, Black- and Brown-owned communications and advocacy firm that guides clients through an ever-changing cultural, political, and regulatory landscape.

We engage with brands of consequence in the public and private sectors, but we are forged in politics, where earning hearts and minds means everything. Our approach is informed by four combined decades of experience in:

• Leading non-profit organizations, legislative offices, and political campaigns;
• Designing brand and marketing materials for dozens of organizations and people;
• Speaking on the record and developing Texas and national media relationships;
• Tackling challenges at premier universities and Fortune 500 companies;
• Helping hundreds of candidates find their voices and
• Engineering millions of individual interactions with everyday people.

In our three years in business, we have served our portfolio of mission-driven clients by developing and executing strategies in support of 

• Rapid climate action and a transition to a clean energy economy; 
• Practical solutions to hunger and poverty at home and abroad; 
• Expanding access to affordable healthcare;
• Improving public schools by taking care of our teachers and
• Protecting voters from the organized Republican effort to dismantle democracy.