Senior Campaign Director

Summary

Join Fight for the Future as a Senior Campaign Director and lead impactful campaigns promoting technology for liberation and empowerment. This key leadership role requires 8+ years of relevant experience in organizing, advocacy, or related fields. You will build and manage campaigns, develop communications materials, act as a media spokesperson, and contribute to organizational strategy. The position offers a competitive salary ($100,000-$130,000), remote work flexibility, and comprehensive benefits for US-based employees. We seek a highly skilled and passionate individual with a commitment to social justice and a proven track record of success in campaign management and media relations. This is a full-time role, but a short contract may be considered initially.

Requirements

• Have at least eight years of experience in relevant fields like organizing and campaigning, legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, or writing/journalism
• 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
• Have professional writing experience, especially for large audiences, including online audiences and traditional media
• Be able to synthesize complex ideas into concise, easily understandable copy for the web
• Be 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
• 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
• Be 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
• 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
• Have a rigorous and thought-provoking perspective on a wide range of political issues
• Be able to 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
• Have a demonstrated commitment to working with people from a variety of backgrounds
• Be 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Act as a spokesperson to the media on our campaigns
• Manage relationships with businesses and organizations
• Develop partnerships with civil society stakeholders
• Organize IRL campaign actions and lobby days
• Work with our in-house designers and technologists on websites and digital tools
• 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
• 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
• Work closely with other campaigns staff to develop Fight for the Future’s policy positions
• Assist with organizational needs such as staff and volunteer recruitment, contractor management, fundraising, and special projects
• Help promote an internal culture that values rest, recovery, and mutual support

Preferred Qualifications

Fluency in Spanish or other languages

Benefits

• 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