WELCOME TO MWD!
We are a direct marketing agency with almost four decades of fundraising success, having raised over $1 billion in support of progressive causes and political campaigns. Our employees are at the top of their game—leaders of our industry and, quite frankly, some of the most creative, impassioned, and exceptional humans to walk the earth. If our mission and values resonate with you, we encourage you to take the leap and apply.
JOB OPENINGS
Lead Web Developer
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Lead Web Developer manages a small production team of coders on many aspects of email implementation and web development projects. In addition to coding email messages, and developing web pages, micro-sites, social media apps and more, the Lead Developer also mentors the members of the team, tracks internal workflows and communicates timelines to project stakeholders, and also serves as the end-point for technical escalations on projects.
Core responsibilities:
- Slicing and optimizing Photoshop comps
- Coding emails and updating landing pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Becoming familiar with navigating the tools of our client eCRM and ESP systems
- Trafficking project workflow and timelines
- Other duties to support design and production staff
Desired Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years' web development experience
- Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ability to code in a responsive manner that validate and follow accessibility guidelines
- Some experience in coding HTML email templates
- Photoshop or other image editing software skills
- Experience with at least one JavaScript library such as jQuery
- Knowledge of at least one server side language
- Use of JavaScript frameworks or libraries such as jQuery
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Ability to work on multiple projects daily
Also a Plus:
- Experience in coding for accessibility best practices
- Experience coding emails using fluid-hybrid techniques
- Skillful in the use of JSON/AJAX and DOM techniques
- Familiar with the use of APIs
- Knowledge of PHP and retrieving data from MySQL databases
- Experience with email testing tools such as Litmus or EmailOnAcid
- Familiarity with A/B or multivariate testing
Personal Characteristics:
- Team-builder and influencer
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women+s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Lead Web Developer — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
- Some samples or links to your work
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Online Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
About the Opportunity:
The Online Account Executive works as part of an account team that delivers direct marketing fundraising programs by assisting with or managing many aspects of client work and project management for a portfolio of clients.
Core responsibilities:
- Working with the account lead to develop and implement online fundraising/advocacy campaigns with specific benchmarks and deliverables, including email newsletters and solicitations, fundraising appeals, advocacy campaigns and more
- Assisting with creative services, including writing/editing Web fundraising copy, promotional copy and email newsletters and solicitations
- Coordinating email message production and implementation with internal departments and clients
- Implementing and overseeing message and landing page setup in the client+s eCRM platform
- Working with Director of Research and Analytics to pull messaging data and other metrics
- Monitoring message performance after a launch and doing preliminary analysis for client report-back
- Helping prepare presentations and reports before in-person client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account lead
Education, Experience & Knowledge:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in one of the following areas of work: advocacy, fundraising, electoral campaigning, project management, event planning, Internet marketing, direct response
- Technology-oriented, with the ability and desire to understand how online fundraising, marketing and advocacy technology works (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Demonstrated knowledge and interest in online fundraising, e-mail marketing and advocacy
Desired Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Luminate, Salsa, Net Community, Engaging Networks or similar
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Previous experience in a client service role
- Experience with online advertising a plus
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Online Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Account Executives provide strategic leadership for direct marketing fundraising programs with nonprofit organizations who are our clients. They serve as the lead relationship manager for a portfolio of several clients, and work within a team to deliver direct marketing fundraising programs.
Core responsibilities:
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Provide strategic oversight of client direct marketing fundraising programs
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Prepare and secure strategy documents and budget approvals for projects
- Create and review strategies and annual plans with clients
- Develop and execute year-long direct marketing schedules
- Draft appeal letters and/or work with copywriters to draft content
- Work with clients to identify topics, issues, and projects for fundraising appeals
- Work with list brokers to develop lists
- Develop up-sell/cross-sell strategies
- Travel several times a year to meet with clients
- Assist with new business proposals and presentations
Desired Skills & Abilities:
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Ability to help analyze problems and produce a viable solution
Preferred Qaulifications:
- 7 to 9 years relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of direct marketing and individual donor fundraising
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Presentation and persuasion skillset
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Willingness to travel
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Lead Web Developer
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Lead Web Developer manages a small production team of coders on many aspects of email implementation and web development projects. In addition to coding email messages, and developing web pages, micro-sites, social media apps and more, the Lead Developer also mentors the members of the team, tracks internal workflows and communicates timelines to project stakeholders, and also serves as the end-point for technical escalations on projects.
Core responsibilities:
- Slicing and optimizing Photoshop comps
- Coding emails and updating landing pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Becoming familiar with navigating the tools of our client eCRM and ESP systems
- Trafficking project workflow and timelines
- Other duties to support design and production staff
Desired Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years' web development experience
- Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ability to code in a responsive manner that validate and follow accessibility guidelines
- Some experience in coding HTML email templates
- Photoshop or other image editing software skills
- Experience with at least one JavaScript library such as jQuery
- Knowledge of at least one server side language
- Use of JavaScript frameworks or libraries such as jQuery
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Ability to work on multiple projects daily
Also a Plus:
- Experience in coding for accessibility best practices
- Experience coding emails using fluid-hybrid techniques
- Skillful in the use of JSON/AJAX and DOM techniques
- Familiar with the use of APIs
- Knowledge of PHP and retrieving data from MySQL databases
- Experience with email testing tools such as Litmus or EmailOnAcid
- Familiarity with A/B or multivariate testing
Personal Characteristics:
- Team-builder and influencer
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women+s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Lead Web Developer — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
- Some samples or links to your work
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Online Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
About the Opportunity:
The Online Account Executive works as part of an account team that delivers direct marketing fundraising programs by assisting with or managing many aspects of client work and project management for a portfolio of clients.
Core responsibilities:
- Working with the account lead to develop and implement online fundraising/advocacy campaigns with specific benchmarks and deliverables, including email newsletters and solicitations, fundraising appeals, advocacy campaigns and more
- Assisting with creative services, including writing/editing Web fundraising copy, promotional copy and email newsletters and solicitations
- Coordinating email message production and implementation with internal departments and clients
- Implementing and overseeing message and landing page setup in the client+s eCRM platform
- Working with Director of Research and Analytics to pull messaging data and other metrics
- Monitoring message performance after a launch and doing preliminary analysis for client report-back
- Helping prepare presentations and reports before in-person client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account lead
Education, Experience & Knowledge:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in one of the following areas of work: advocacy, fundraising, electoral campaigning, project management, event planning, Internet marketing, direct response
- Technology-oriented, with the ability and desire to understand how online fundraising, marketing and advocacy technology works (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Demonstrated knowledge and interest in online fundraising, e-mail marketing and advocacy
Desired Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Luminate, Salsa, Net Community, Engaging Networks or similar
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Previous experience in a client service role
- Experience with online advertising a plus
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Online Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Account Executives provide strategic leadership for direct marketing fundraising programs with nonprofit organizations who are our clients. They serve as the lead relationship manager for a portfolio of several clients, and work within a team to deliver direct marketing fundraising programs.
Core responsibilities:
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Provide strategic oversight of client direct marketing fundraising programs
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Prepare and secure strategy documents and budget approvals for projects
- Create and review strategies and annual plans with clients
- Develop and execute year-long direct marketing schedules
- Draft appeal letters and/or work with copywriters to draft content
- Work with clients to identify topics, issues, and projects for fundraising appeals
- Work with list brokers to develop lists
- Develop up-sell/cross-sell strategies
- Travel several times a year to meet with clients
- Assist with new business proposals and presentations
Desired Skills & Abilities:
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Ability to help analyze problems and produce a viable solution
Preferred Qaulifications:
- 7 to 9 years relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of direct marketing and individual donor fundraising
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Presentation and persuasion skillset
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Willingness to travel
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
