Precision is an award-winning integrated strategy and marketing agency based in Washington, DC and New York, NY. Powered by data, we bring world-class experts in each of our service areas to conceive, develop, and run campaigns that help our clients seize opportunities and solve their biggest challenges.
We’re at the center of today’s biggest debates and defining moments, inside the Beltway, across New York’s media and financial worlds, and in state capitals across the country. Our work sits at the intersection of politics, business, and culture, helping leaders and organizations make an impact when it matters most. We hire people who are the best at what they do, and who like to have fun doing it; we don’t just break through. We break new ground.
Our team is seeking a principal to join our Strategic Communications team in New York, NY or Washington DC executing cutting-edge communications strategy for clients ranging from nonprofits and advocacy groups to media start-ups and industry leaders.
What You Will Be Doing:
Client Management
- Lead and oversee multiple client initiatives or programs from conception through execution.
- Manages small work streams across multiple client accounts, ensuring timely delivery and coordination.
Comms Specific
- Content Creation: Creates a wide range of high-quality communication materials, including strategy memos, presentations, press releases, talking points, op-eds, and speeches. Ensures materials are tailored to target audiences and advance strategic objectives.
- Media Engagement: Serve as the lead responsible for integrating media industry foresight directly into the overarching organizational communications roadmap. Proactively develop and champion media workstreams and campaigns. Review, edit, approve pitches and media lists.
- Strategic Messenger: Strategically identify ways to insert the client's narrative into media and thought leadership opportunities.
Collaboration
- Work collaboratively across communications, data, creative, and paid advertising departments on behalf of clients; builds relationships within Precision.
- Well-prepared for meetings—offers clear updates, anticipates questions, and proposes solutions and next steps.
- Guides junior staff and interns, by reviewing and editing junior team members’ work and providing written and verbal feedback.
Project & Time Management
- Owns assigned tasks (e.g. understanding how work ladders up to the larger goal, meets deadlines without reminders, organizes documents for team sharing, comfortable with a variety of tools and hard skills, can manage multiple projects at once, manages up, if necessary).
- Meets deadlines set by client lead.
Strategy
- Produces clear, persuasive content based on client strategy with minimal guidance; regularly seeks feedback and reviews and edits junior team members’ work.
- Proactively uses available tools and sources to research and apply informed judgment to decisions, ensuring work aligns with strategy and long-term goals.
- Identifies potential issues or strategy gaps early, recommends adjustments, and supports teams in course-correcting.
What We Are Looking For:
- 4+ years of experience in a communications role either in-house, agency, political campaign, government or consultancy environment. Internship experience considered.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A strong interest in the media and corporate, advocacy and political campaigns, experience in press relations, message development and strategic planning.
- Creativity, energy, detail-orientation, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
What We Will Give You:
- Competitive salaries
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Flexible hybrid remote/in office plan
- Retirement plan with automatic 3% safe-harbor contribution from Precision
- Healthcare coverage - medical, dental and vision with 90% of costs covered by Precision
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Professional development stipend
The salary range for this role is $85,000-105,000.
We are currently working in a hybrid model and require staff to work in the office 50% of working days per month.
Precision is committed to building a diverse team that will positively and authentically impact the communities we serve. Centering our strategies around the authentic voices and cultures of the communities we are engaging with is paramount to our work – and our work can only be as inclusive as our team is representative. We strongly encourage women, Black, Latino, Hispanic, AAPI, and Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, gender expansive or GNC folks, people of all ages, disabled people, and veterans to apply.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in a communications role (in-house, agency, political campaign, government, or consultancy)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in press relations, message development, and strategic planning
- Proven ability to create strategic communications materials (strategy memos, press releases, op-eds, speeches, talking points)
- Demonstrated project and client management skills; ability to manage multiple accounts and mentor junior staff
What We Do
Precision is an integrated strategy and marketing agency with offices in Washington, DC and New York City. We were named the 2021 Digital Agency of the Year at the SABRE Awards by PRovoke Media. Last year, Precision was named the 2020 Outstanding Small Agency at the PRWeek Awards and Public Affairs Agency of the Year at both the Global & North America SABRE Awards. In re-electing President Barack Obama, Precision co-founders Stephanie Cutter, Jen O'Malley Dillon, and Teddy Goff pioneered the politics of precision -- building and leading an unprecedented campaign to understand, reach, and connect with more Americans than ever before. Precision applies everything learned through years of experience to help clients facing a diverse set of challenges and reaching toward a diverse set of goals. Our roots are in politics, but we work in just about every industry you can think of: healthcare, technology, nonprofits, sports & entertainment, corporate & financial services. We've been an integrated agency since day one, with world-class experts in each of our practice areas: communications, creative, digital, data, advertising, and mobilization.
