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Bully Pulpit International

Strategic communications and campaign management

Junior Commercial Contracts Counsel

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026
$130k - $145k
Junior
JD
New York, NY, USA
HybridThree days per week in person in the Midtown Manhattan office is strongly preferred; exceptional candidates in the U.S. Mountain and Pacific time zones may be considered remotely.
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support

About the job

Requirements
  • At least two years of experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
  • A Juris Doctor from an American Bar Association-accredited law school.
  • Membership in good standing with at least one state Bar.
  • Ability to analyze, draft, and amend commercial agreements and communicate about them with non-legal stakeholders.
  • Working familiarity with common commercial contract terms and their implications, including intellectual property.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding privileged and other sensitive business matters.
  • Ability to adapt, prioritize, and manage a dynamic workload as priorities shift.
  • Ability to communicate complex legal concepts and difficult negotiation developments to non-legal stakeholders while managing expectations.
  • High proficiency with Microsoft Word and ability to adapt to contract lifecycle management software such as DocuSign IAM.
Responsibilities
  • Shepherd commercial contracts, including NDAs, service agreements, and vendor agreements, from initial stages through execution.
  • Draft and revise contract language using internal form agreements and counterparty forms, while counseling the business during the process.
  • Analyze contract terms, understand their business implications and risks, and explain that analysis clearly to non-legal stakeholders.
  • Apply BPI negotiating postures through redlines where appropriate, explain the rationale for those policies, communicate them internally and with counterparties, and adapt to business needs as directed by decision-makers.
  • Advise on how to protect BPI while maintaining business deal flow.
  • Manage a dynamic list of contracting tasks in contract lifecycle management software, independently and in coordination with the contracts manager.
  • Communicate with internal stakeholders and minimize disruption to client work or revenue resulting from legal requirements.
  • Identify legal and business implications of contract work, terms, and relationships, and flag risks where appropriate.
Desired Qualifications
  • In-house experience at a fast-growing communications, creative, digital advertising, or technology firm.

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Bully Pulpit International provides strategic communications and end-to-end campaign management. It helps clients shape conversations and drive change across the full lifecycle by offering audience development, messaging, content creation, distribution, and paid and earned media. It uses data and technology, with tools like Vantage for brand reputation and Orbit for influencer reach, to plan, target, and optimize campaigns. The company serves corporations, advocacy groups, and community leaders and aims to scale for good by ensuring powerful ideas reach the right audiences.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

District of Columbia

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • BPI acquired 365 Sherpas on May 5, 2026, making Germany its third-largest market.
  • BPI hired Dave Whiting on August 24, 2026, strengthening Boston and B2B reach.
  • Brittney Basden joined in September 2026, expanding media, advocacy, and public affairs access.

What critics are saying

  • BPI's acquisition roll-up strains integration across BOLDT, Seven Hills, Message House, and 365 Sherpas.
  • Sludge linked BPI to $8.9 million from BMA clients, inviting reputational scrutiny.
  • A failed transatlantic expansion or cultural clash could erode margins and partner retention by 2027.

What makes Bully Pulpit International unique

  • BPI combines politics, corporate affairs, and creative campaign execution across twelve offices.
  • Dave Whiting and Rob Shepardson deepen BPI's data-driven persuasion and culture-shaping bench.
  • Elizabeth Alexander adds litigation communications, giving BPI crisis and regulatory risk capabilities.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Parental Leave
  • Phone/Internet Stipend

Company News

Provoke Media
Oct 12th, 2026
BPI names Katie Cronen partner.

BPI names Katie Cronen partner. The former Carter Intelligence Group partner brings experience in audience research, messaging and reputation strategy, with a focus on healthcare and other regulated industries. NEW YORK - BPI has named Katie Cronen partner, adding to the firm's audience research and strategic communications expertise. Based in New York, Cronen will work across the firm, helping clients translate audience research into communications and messaging strategies. Cronen joins BPI from Carter Intelligence Group, where she was a partner. Previously, she spent 15 years at maslansky + partners, leading client strategy and messaging work for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. Her experience spans narrative and message strategy, communications and marketing research, reputation and issues response, and executive communications, with a particular focus on healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, financial services, automotive and food. Article tags News direct to your inbox The agency playbook. The PR industry's most comprehensive listing of firms from every region and specialty.

Bully Pulpit International
Aug 26th, 2026
BPI names Dave Whiting Partner, expanding senior leadership and Boston presence.

BPI names Dave Whiting Partner, expanding senior leadership and Boston presence. August 26, 2026 Weber Shandwick executive brings deep expertise in business marketing, corporate affairs, and data-driven communications BPI today announced that Dave Whiting has joined the firm as Partner, bringing more than two decades of experience helping organizations reach and influence complex audiences across business, communications, and public affairs. Based in Boston, Whiting will advise clients across BPI's integrated offering, bringing new approaches to reaching complex, high-value audiences and helping organizations navigate increasingly interconnected stakeholder environments. He will also strengthen BPI's senior presence in Boston and the Northeast while bringing extensive experience working with clients and teams globally. "BPI is fundamentally in the persuasion business, and that starts with deeply understanding the audiences that matter," said BPI Founding Partner Ben Coffey Clark. "We've known Dave as one of the real pioneers bringing precision data and modern techniques to the communications business. That expertise has applications far beyond traditional B2B marketing, whether you're trying to reach customers, investors, employees, or other critical stakeholders. Dave and I worked together in politics and consulting decades ago when we both were starting our careers. As BPI expands both domestically and internationally, this is the perfect time for him to finally join the team." Whiting joins BPI from Weber Shandwick, where he served as Executive Vice President, Business Marketing and General Manager of the firm's Boston office, leading a team of 80 communications, marketing and creative professionals. Before Weber Shandwick, he spent 12 years at Edelman, where he led the firm's global B2B operations and marketing strategies for clients and focused on integrating data and analytics into communications strategies. Earlier in his career, Whiting spent a decade in Washington, D.C., as a lobbyist and public affairs advisor for political and corporate clients and foreign governments. Whiting also brings extensive international experience, including work across Asia, complementing BPI's growing international footprint and integrated approach to helping clients navigate business, political, and reputational challenges across markets. "The most interesting communications challenges today don't fit neatly into traditional categories," said Whiting. "What drew me to BPI is the ability to bring together deep audience understanding, data, technology, and human expertise around a business problem. I'm excited to bring my experience to that model, help clients navigate increasingly complex stakeholder environments, and contribute to BPI's growth in Boston and globally." Whiting joined BPI on August 24, 2026 and will be based in Boston.

Bully Pulpit International
Jul 16th, 2026
Bully Pulpit International names Rob Shepardson as Senior Advisor to drive integrated brand and public affairs strategy.

Bully Pulpit International names Rob Shepardson as Senior Advisor to drive integrated brand and public affairs strategy. July 16, 2026 Bully Pulpit International (BPI) today welcomes Rob Shepardson, communications strategist and co-founder of the award-winning agency SS+K, as Senior Advisor. Bringing more than 40 years of experience at the intersection of advertising, public affairs, politics, and issue advocacy, Rob will help BPI clients navigate today's complex, high-stakes reputational landscape. Shepardson's arrival reflects a continued and deliberate strategic push by BPI to serve modern leaders whose challenges straddle corporate communications, CMO mandates, and brand groups. By breaking down the traditional silos between corporate reputation and consumer brand marketing, Shepardson will help clients align high-impact brand narratives with meaningful public advocacy and societal impact. "Rob is a sage voice that I have learned from since the first days of BPI. He brings such credibility as a pioneer of culture-first campaigns, from Livestrong and Obama 2008. But CMOs love it because he can bring that creativity without the hype and focus on how to use it to drive clear business outcomes," said BPI CEO Andrew Bleeker. Throughout his career, Rob has led high-impact initiatives and campaigns across the commercial, political and non-profit sectors. His advocacy and political portfolio includes serving as the youth agency for President Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns, as well as directing major efforts for the Obama White House, the Biden/Harris campaign, the Biden White House, the Harris/Walz campaign. On the corporate and institutional side, Rob has guided brands such as Microsoft, HBO, JP Morgan Chase, L'Oreal, Starbucks, AWS, Meta, WhatsApp, the NCAA, the Open Society Foundations, the AFL-CIO, and more. His work has won multiple awards, including Cannes Lions for creative excellence and effectiveness. He has worked extensively in public health and healthcare, including LiveStrong (leading the agency team that developed the iconic yellow wristband), the Gates Foundation, Let's Move! (former First Lady Michelle Obama's signature anti-childhood obesity campaign), Mt. Sinai Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Sandy Hook Promise, No Kid Hungry, Planned Parenthood, the UN Development Programme, the ONE Campaign, and more. "Andrew and his partners have built one of the best firms in the world. They merge deep political intelligence with next-generation technology to drive strategy, giving clients a competitive edge in shaping narratives and building their brands," said new BPI senior advisor, Rob Shepardson. "Success today demands breaking down the silos between corporate reputation, advertising, and advocacy. I look forward to joining the team and helping clients navigate the pressures of a fast-moving, fractured media ecosystem." "As production becomes more accessible, great strategy and bold creative will be the ultimate differentiators. Rob will help guide our team to the kind of insightful strategies that result in creative capable of creating real change.," said Christina Sheffey, Partner & Executive Creative Director. Previously, Rob advised heads of state and international presidential campaigns at the Sawyer/Miller Group. In 2014, President Obama appointed him to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and is an advisor to Cortico, a non-profit affiliated with MIT Media Lab's Center for Constructive Communication The news of Shepardson's appointment comes during a period of rapid global growth for BPI. It follows the recent additions of Elizabeth Alexander as Partner, leading litigation communications, and Jo-ann Robertson as President of Europe, alongside BPI's strategic acquisition of European firms 365 Sherpas, BOLDT, Message House, and Seven Hills.

PR Report
May 5th, 2026
Bully Pulpit buys 365 Sherpas, making Germany its third-largest market

Washington-based communications consultancy Bully Pulpit International has acquired Berlin-based corporate affairs firm 365 Sherpas from the Hirschen Group. The deal makes Germany BPI's third-largest market worldwide. Founded in 2009, BPI employs over 300 consultants and previously expanded into Europe by acquiring Boldt in 2024 and UK firms Seven Hills and Message House. The combined Berlin and Brussels teams of 365 Sherpas and Boldt BPI will operate under the 365 Sherpas BPI brand in Germany, with nearly 100 consultants. 365 Sherpas' three managing partners—Cornelius Winter, Jan Böttger and Daniel Wixforth—will become BPI partners, with Winter joining the Global Executive Leadership Team. The Hirschen Group will become BPI's exclusive creative partner in continental Europe.

The Hollywood Reporter
Mar 6th, 2025
Greg Propper’s Social Impact Agency Propper Daley Acquired by Bully Pulpit International

Propper Daley will transition to the BPI brand immediately, and its team of 25 will integrate into BPI's U.S. organizational structure. Propper Daley’s entertainment philanthropy practice will continue to operate.