Senior Campaign Director at Fight for the Future

Senior Campaign Director (Remote)

Fight for the Future is accepting applications for a Senior Campaign Director. This is a key leadership role for a highly competent organizer within an organization that builds and sustains creative, highly visible campaigns to ensure that technology is a force for liberation and empowerment rather than exploitation and oppression. 

We’re looking for someone who can bring 8+ years of relevant experience to our campaign infrastructure, enabling us to tackle new subject areas, enrich our work, and win victories deemed impossible. 

You might be a tech industry defector who still believes in the potential for technology to uplift social movements, or someone who is actively building good tech and wants to ensure that technology can be a public good. You might have a background in a field like law or journalism, but be excited by the opportunities for activism and advocacy. You might be an organizer—community, labor or otherwise—who is motivated to take winning strategies to a national scale. You might be a civil servant who recently lost their job but still believes that we need democratic institutions to function, and that we need more people engaged in the process to make those institutions work better.

You’ll be joining a small and diverse team of strategists, artists, and technologists who excel at locating and exploiting opportunities within our digital and civic infrastructure, activating cultural shifts, and driving mass political engagement. We focus on technologies and related policies that disproportionately harm Black, brown, and Indigenous people and communities, immigrants, political dissidents, sex workers, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and others who face systemic oppression. We pride ourselves on a unique tactical approach that integrates technology, alliance-building, advocacy, and innovative messaging. Learn more about our plans for 2025 here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2025 

More specifically, you will be:

• Building and organizing campaigns (70%): 
  • You will develop and drive advocacy strategies that advance the organization's key policy goals in issue areas like surveillance, privacy, decentralized tech, anti-censorship and more. You'll likely focus on 1-2 areas, but are expected to engage with the team across issues and share thoughts, brainstorm, and support.
  • You will create or direct high-quality communications materials like mass emails, press releases, news pitches, web pages, event materials, video scripts, social media content, op-eds, and fundraising appeals.
  • You will act as a spokesperson to the media on our campaigns. Our campaigns are regularly covered by outlets including NPR, the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, Wired, Buzzfeed, the Atlantic, CBS News, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
  • You might manage relationships with businesses and organizations, develop partnerships with civil society stakeholders, organize IRL campaign actions and lobby days, and/or work with our in-house designers and technologists on websites and digital tools—anything it takes to achieve your campaign objectives.

• Tending to big-picture strategy (20%):
  • You might work on identifying, monitoring, and analyzing regulatory and legislative developments affecting Fight for the Future’s campaigns and policy positions at the local, state, federal, and international level.
  • You might closely follow the development of technologies that relate to areas of your work and study the companies that are leading them, so that you can better understand the levers for change, and the ways in which policies will impact them.
  • You will work closely with other campaigns staff to develop Fight for the Future’s policy positions. 

• Supporting organizational needs (10%): 
  • You will assist with organizational needs such as staff and volunteer recruitment, contractor management, fundraising, and special projects.
  • You will help promote an internal culture that values rest, recovery, and mutual support.

What we’re looking for in you:

• You have at least eight years of experience in relevant fields like organizing and campaigning, legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, or writing/journalism. Based on this experience, you understand how to build power on an issue, who we need with us, the messaging that will move people, and the steps to get us to specific campaign goals.
• You have professional writing experience, especially for large audiences, including online audiences and traditional media. You can synthesize complex ideas into concise, easily understandable copy for the web. 
• You are familiar with the pace of the news cycle and understand how quickly you need to move and how hard you need to hustle to ensure our voice is heard. You are also good at taking rest and restorative time in-between these moments, in the interest of health and sustainability.
• You have project management and organizational skills that enable you to keep a number of projects on track and delegate to other members of our team and contractors.
• You are talented at generating media coverage on campaigns, from developing traditional media plans to writing press materials and reaching out and developing relationships with traditional media sources.
• You have played a key role in making something big happen, whether it was a high profile campaign, a groundbreaking investigative report, launching a startup, or a successful music career.
• You have a rigorous and thought-provoking perspective on a wide range of political issues. You are a thinker and someone who can synthesize a problem or an idea out of ordinary interaction and someone’s frustrations/struggles.
• You can communicate with people who are different from you, who may have different backgrounds and perspectives, and who hold political beliefs that you may passionately oppose.
• You have a demonstrated commitment to working with people from a variety of backgrounds. You are motivated to show up in solidarity with others on the team and coalition partners, mutually working toward each others’ success in a supportive way that doesn’t hinge on whose project is whose.
• Fluency in English required; fluency in Spanish or other languages is a plus.

Who you will work with:

As FFTF’s Senior Campaign Director, you will work closely with the organization’s leadership, our campaigns staff, and a professional designer and senior software engineer which will position you well to build the tech needed on any campaign. Our team of 15 people come from a variety of backgrounds, including tech startups, the music industry, and campaign organizations. We’re looking for well-rounded individuals who have a range of interests, but know what they’re really good at! We pride ourselves on being a welcoming place to work for women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, as well as parents. We gladly accommodate nontraditional schedules and health and access needs.

Compensation

We are looking to fill a full time role, but could start with a short contract to get experience working together. The salary for the position is $100,000-$130,000, depending on experience. You don’t need to be based in the U.S. but language fluency and knowledge of the U.S. political system is a must.

Benefits for full time US-based employees at FFTF include:

• Four-Day Work Week
• Uncapped Paid Time Off policy 
• Platinum Medical Insurance (100% of premium covered for employees and dependents)
• Dental Insurance (100% of premium covered for employees and dependents) 
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Office Equipment Reimbursement
• Matching 401k
• 10 weeks paid family leave after the first year of employment

Fight for the Future is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer. FFTF does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. We believe that a diverse staff enables us to better understand and serve our members, audience and community. Women, people of color, and members of low-income, disadvantaged, and LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.