Careers: Make An Impact

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About Red Edge

We’re an Arlington-based digital advocacy firm which primarily assists clients on free-market and personal liberty issues with apps, ads, and ideas. We’ve made some awesome stuff, but you can be a part of making our best products yet.

We:

  • Work in a fast-paced, exciting environment
  • Don’t care about titles
  • Do care about talent
  • Don’t care about your grades in school
  • Do care about passion
  • Won’t be impressed by the five years of “experience” you had stagnating at one job
  • Will be impressed by a cool project you made on your own

Ideal candidates:

  • Enjoy kicking ass
  • Work hard and play hard
  • Possess a good sense of humor
  • Relish the chance to try new things
  • Know what they don’t know, and have a drive to improve
  • Be humble enough to admit mistakes, and smart enough to learn from them
  • May lack for experience but not of a desire to learn
  • Enjoy messing with the status quo
  • Want to create one’s own job description based on his/her own success
  • Work in our Virginia office location

About our office:

  • We’re located right above the Courthouse metro stop and are an easy commute from just about anywhere. Transit or parking benefits are available.
  • Our hours are 9:30-6:30, but flexible. Our focus is on getting stuff done and having fun, not waiting for a clock.
  • Dress is casual, except sometimes when we have to meet clients.
  • In general, we prefer common sense to typed out rules.
  • We subsidize health insurance and transit or parking, sponsor and contribute to a 401(k) for eligible employees, and may offer potential relocation adjustment commensurate with position and fit.
  • As you’d expect from a tech-focused firm, we have snacks, a well-stocked bar, and beer in the refrigerator.

Make Your Work Matter

Marketing Coordinator

We’re looking for a detail-oriented and energetic person to coordinate marketing and business development. We are a talented, creative company which delivers proven value to premier clients — now we need someone who’s eager to talk about what we do. The successful candidate will experience a highly leveraged opportunity for personal, professional, and organizational growth.

Red Edge seeks a marketing coordinator to:

  • Identify opportunities with businesses, associations, and advocacy organizations to advance their mission through strategic communications consulting and premier digital solutions and products
  • Prep for and participate in potential-client meetings
  • Draft and produce marketing strategies and materials
  • Coordinate or produce proposals
  • Track marketing progress

A dream candidate would:

  • Be self-motivated and have a strong desire to reach out to organizations to find problems we can help solve
  • Be excited about the potential for using creative, attractive, and well-built digital tools to solve advocacy challenges for some of the biggest political and policy fights
  • Demonstrate a track record of commitment to individual liberty and free enterprise
  • Be familiar with leading free-enterprise organizations

Position requirements:

  • Clear verbal and written communications skills
  • Ability to create or adhere to processes
  • Examples of the candidate’s successful marketing strategies and products

Develop A Freer World

Developer

Live By Your Code

We’re looking for someone to join our office and culture who loves building websites with a purpose.

We really don’t care about the skills you have in specific languages, although if you don’t know HTML, CSS, or client-side Javascript then we’d be surprised if you’re a good fit. Smart, dedicated people can pick up new languages and frameworks relatively quickly.

Experience with WordPress, Sass, Twig, Laravel, relational databases with millions-to-billions of rows, and social media APIs are a plus but not a requirement.

  • Are you the kind of person who always has a few projects going on at once?
  • Do you sometimes stay up late at night tinkering with new languages and frameworks, or hacking away at an undocumented API?
  • Are you the kind of person who isn’t afraid of making and admitting a mistake — and then learning from it?
  • Do you enjoy learning from people with different backgrounds and skills than your own
  • Are you interested in utilizing digital tools and data to increase personal and economic freedom for more people?

If the above are true, you’re probably a good fit for Red Edge.

VISUAL DESIGNER

Visual Designer

DESIGN A FREER WORLD WITH US!

Red Edge seeks visual designers at several career stages to take responsibility for ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of the advocacy world’s best creative.

Our ideal candidates will have a demonstrated ability to communicate complex advocacy messages in attractive and persuasive visual media.

The job requires:

  • Accepting and relishing responsibility for our team to deliver quality digital advocacy products and projects
  • Excellent teamwork and client-communications skills
  • Excellent visual judgement
  • The ability to manage and/or recruit team members and vendors
  • Proven ability to create useful, well-considered wireframes
  • A mastery of Illustrator and Photoshop
  • An understanding of the limitations and capabilities of implementing web designs
  • A passion for creating clean user interfaces for websites and applications
  • The ability to quickly create, iterate, and wireframe ideas
  • A desire to work directly with developers to implement their designs

Red Edge currently is seeking an entry-level designer (0-2 years) with demonstrated attention to detail, creativity, and interest in professional development, as well as experienced designers (3+ years) with a focus on website, application, and video design.

If you are interested, please include your resume, portfolio or infographic reflecting your skills and work product, along with your salary range.

(NOTE: Red Edge is happy to provide a $1,000 referral bonus when appropriate)

INTERN

Intern

Kickstart Your Career!

You’ve got skills but you need a place to show them off. Grab an internship with a Beltway band of pirates!

Red Edge, a digital advocacy firm serving leading organizations defending free enterprise, is looking for a kick­-ass young whippersnapper to come in and help out—in a meaningful way. While there may be some coffee runs, we’re looking for someone who doesn’t need babysitting and who can learn and offer their own ideas.

The perfect RedTern will:

  • Be a go-­getter who isn’t afraid to take ownership over projects and tasks
  • Be willing to bring their own ideas to further our creativity and help brainstorm projects
  • Pitch in on design, blog posts, or social media
  • Assist in company proposals, social media presence, and marketing
  • Leave with an effusive recommendation and demonstrable work to show future employers (hey, maybe that’s us!)

Please email your resume, a sample tweet or Facebook post that would make us want to click through to your resume, and examples of your work.