Office Manager

  • Manages daily office operations, handling reception, facilities, and administrative tasks for operations and executive teams

  • Ensures smooth administrative, operational, and facility processes, actively fostering a productive and professional work environment

  • Streamlines office operations, supports leadership, coordinates events, and champions company culture through collaboration and engagement


About the Company

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. BPI specializes in public affairs, corporate reputation, and social impact. A growing firm, we sit on both coasts and connect Silicon Valley technology, Madison Avenue creative, Washington policy and real people.

About the Job

The Office Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Culture & Operations, will manage the day-to-day office operations, including reception activities, general facilities management and administrative support to members of the operations and executive teams. This role is responsible for ensuring smooth functioning of administrative, operational and facility-related processes while fostering a productive and professional work environment.

You thrive in a fast paced environment where visitors are frequent and customer service is premier. You bring a positive attitude to everything you do from ensuring the office is stocked and clean, welcoming guests and taking care of general office administration. The ideal candidate is well organized, has excellent communication skills, is detail oriented, and thrives at juggling a variety of tasks in a fast-paced environment.

  • Office Operations: Manage all general office administration. Tasks include but not limited to ordering and stocking snack and office supplies, keeping public office areas clean and refreshed, welcoming guests, managing deliveries and monitoring any office maintenance. You’ll act as the primary liason for building management, vendors, service providers, and high level visitors. Support will also be inclusive of event coordination and management for clients & friends of the firm on occasion. Ensure the office is organized, well-maintained and conducive to productivity

  • Strategic Planning & Communication: Identify opportunities to streatmline office operations and improve workflow. Support executive leadership with administrative and operational needs. Coordinate office-wide meetings, events and initiatives

  • BPI Culture: Be a champion of BPI culture and collaborate with and engage with Operations leadership and BPI Culture Captains in assisting with planned activities and events

Qualifications

  • More than 2+ years of relevant experience as an office administrator or manager, preferably in a corporate environment

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook calendar) and finds fulfillment in learning new software programs

  • Proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments

  • Thrives working in a collaborative and fast paced environment

  • Customer services champion; you set the bar high for all here

  • Ability to work well with all levels of clients and team members

  • Polished, professional and positive demeanor

  • Willing to work onsite M-F

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Operations Assistant

  • Communicates across all levels, handling confidential information with integrity and maintaining a professional demeanor with executives

  • Manages complex calendars, coordinates travel arrangements (domestic and international), and processes expense reports for leadership

  • Provides admin support to leadership team, contributes to daily office ops, and collaborates with the internal ops team to ensure smooth operations


About the Company

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. BPI specializes in public affairs, corporate reputation, and social impact. A growing firm, we sit on both coasts and connect Silicon Valley technology, Madison Avenue creative, Washington policy and real people.

About the Job

In this role, you’ll be responsible for administrative support to some of our leadership team by mastering the art of calendar Tetris as an Outlook expert, coordinating travel arrangements, and helping us see around corners. You’ll also provide support to our daily office operations in a number of ways, contributing to our culture and team member satisfaction and success.

You’ll work closely with the Senior Director of People & Operations and the rest of the internal operations team to ensure operations across the agency are coordinated and running smoothly. The ideal candidate is well organized, has excellent communication skills, is detail oriented, and thrives at juggling a variety of tasks in a fast-paced environment.

  • Executive Scheduling: Provide administrative assistance to multiple executives on our Leadership team that includes, but is not limited to managing complex schedules via Outlook, booking travel and filing expense reports

  • Office Operations: Monitor the day-to-day operations needs of our executive team and partners team to ensure administrative, office, and daily business operations needs are met and running smoothly

Qualifications

  • More than 2+ years relevant experience as an executive assistant

  • Expertise in executive-level calendar management in Outlook

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong intuition, proactivity, reliability and follow-through

  • Expertise in Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Outlook Calendar) and Google (docs/slides/sheets) and finds fulfillment in learning new software programs

  • Strong attention to detail, in addition to organizational and time management abilities

  • Proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments

  • Thrives working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment

  • Customer service champion; you set the bar high for all here

  • Ability to work well with all levels of clients and team members

  • Polished, professional, and positive demeanor

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Design Director

  • Leads a growing design team, driving impactful ad campaigns for global brands and social change organizations, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery

  • Strategically elevates creative output, fostering growth for junior designers and pushing boundaries in brand identity and collateral design

  • Champions a design-focused approach, contributing to the agency's rapid expansion and global competitiveness through innovative work


About the Company

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. BPI specializes in public affairs, corporate reputation, and social impact. A growing firm, we sit on both coasts and connect Silicon Valley technology, Madison Avenue creative, Washington policy and real people.

About the Job

We are an ambitious, quickly expanding team looking for a Design Director that can help us compete on a global scale. You are a smart, strategic, focused and ambitious senior design leader looking for the chance to make an impact on the advertising campaigns for both the biggest brands in the world and the most important mission-driven organizations fighting for meaningful social change in the country. This is an opportunity to push a design and creative team forward, lead impactful and meaningful work, and help to grow a talented, hungry team.

  • Overview. Capable of leading and developing top-notch ad campaigns across brand and social impact marketing. You will manage the design team and process to ensure campaigns are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest design and quality standards

  • Leadership. Lead a growing team of graphic designers; you have a background in designing brand identities and collateral & a desire to help young designers and creatives grow

Qualifications

  • 15+ years design experience in an agency environment, including at least 5 as a Senior Designer leading a range of advertising campaigns (brand reputation & social impact experience preferred)

  • A laser focus on design quality control. You want every design to be pixel-perfect and know how to maintain high design standards across a large graphic design team. You excel at reviewing graphic design work across multiple clients and providing the clear, actionable feedback necessary to make the work better and ensure it meets our standards

  • A background in resource management and the ability to help allocate and manage design resources, including designers, freelancers, and agencies

  • An active role in hiring, training, and managing the creative team’s development while providing direction and insights on performance and needs to the creative leadership

  • Exceptional communication skills, capable of communicating creative and design decisions - and why they work - to clients at the highest level (Fortune 1 C-Suite)

  • A desire to lead, mentor and manage a growing team of designers and art directors using persuasive leadership skills, clear communication, and comprehensive knowledge of branding / design strategies and best practices

  • Fluency in graphic design across both digital and traditional channels, including all social media platforms, print, OOH, DOOH and video advertising

  • Strong organizational skills that enable you to juggle multiple tasks, prioritize work streams, delegate effectively, and meet deadlines with ease

  • Applications without a portfolio will not be considered

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Analyst, Soc. Impact & Rep. Risk

  • Leads and manages research projects for multiple client accounts, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality deliverables

  • Conducts in-depth analysis of societal issues and their impact on corporations, providing strategic recommendations to clients

  • Leads and mentors junior team members, while contributing to product development and refining research methodologies


About the Company

National Journal Membership offers award-winning journalism, boardroom-ready presentations, customized infographics and analysis, and exclusive events. We provide members with the data, content, and resources they need to stay on top of key movements in people, politics, and policy.

Part of National Journal, Gravity Research specializes in strategy and business development, risk management, and stakeholder mapping. We help organizations navigate high-priority policy and brand issues, identify key influencers, and develop data-driven messaging and engagement strategies for creating impact. Our custom research provides analytical insights, deep-dive profiles, custom benchmarking, and ongoing tracking to help you engage both inside and outside of Washington, DC.

About the Job

Social Impact and Reputational Risk Analysts are responsible for contributing to all aspects of Societal and Reputational Intelligence (SRI) client engagements. Analysts on the social issues benchmarking team use our media monitoring tools and a range of qualitative research methods to identify and track trending issues, produce custom analysis for our clients, and develop bespoke insights and recommendations. Analysts work directly with senior leaders at Gravity Research and senior public affairs and C-suite executives at client companies.

Responsibilities

  • Managing research for 4-6 client accounts and being responsible for the timely delivery of all project work

  • Collaborating with team members to develop research methodologies and approaches to answer client questions

  • Leading associates and interns who are supporting the client research process

  • Developing smart, nuanced analysis on how societal issues may impact corporations, their workforces, and their consumers, and synthesizing findings into strategic recommendations for clients

  • Drafting deliverables, including PowerPoint presentations, memos, and other formats, to communicate findings and recommendations to clients

  • Presenting findings and interacting with clients to better understand their needs, serving as a trusted expert and advisor on challenging societal issues

  • Regularly consuming news about a range of societal issues and their impact on the business community to incorporate current trends into research and analysis

  • Contributing to product development by crafting new and innovative approaches to producing the analytic work, optimizing operations, and perfecting the research product

  • To perform this job successfully, each essential competency and responsibility must be performed satisfactorily

    • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform essential functions

  • Other duties may be assigned to meet organizational goals

Qualifications

  • A highly analytic, natural problem solver

  • The ability to highlight key insights within a complex set of data, synthesize large amounts of information, and then clearly explain these insights to clients

  • A skilled project manager, able to independently manage competing priorities and adhere to timelines

  • A strong writer able to clearly frame issues for a variety of audiences; some experience with PowerPoint or other visual presentation formats highly preferred

  • An individual with 1-3 years of experience in at least one of the following domains: strategy consulting, policy analysis, risk analysis, Capitol Hill or executive agency experience, or political science research

  • Earned Bachelor's degree required

  • Entrepreneurial spirit; Track record of building new initiatives from conception to execution

  • Creative thinking and resourcefulness in problem-solving

  • Prodigious work ethic and spirit of generosity

  • Active contributor to a diverse and inclusive workplace

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