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Organizing Director

A new organization building a broad-based movement to take on the AI industry seeks a dynamic Organizing Director to build a nationwide organizing program, develop grassroots leaders, and turn anxiety, fear, and hope about AI into public mobilization and political power. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new and exciting movement, grow an organization, and help shape the future of AI.

Location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA preferred; U.S. remote possible

Compensation: $150,000 - $175,000, plus fully covered health, dental, and vision for you and your family; 3% automatic 401(k) contribution; generous PTO

About us

We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

Public anxiety about AI is rising faster than almost any other political issue, and neither party has earned voters' trust on it. For years, the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings; what's been missing is organized grassroots political power. We are building the campaigns, organizing, and political infrastructure to win the future.

Our team includes veterans of the climate movement, civil rights organizations, national labor unions, and progressive electoral campaigns. You'd be building an organizing operation with real resources behind it on an issue that is about to become unavoidable.

The role

The Organizing Director owns how we bring people into this movement and what we ask of them once they're in. You'll build the organizing program from the ground up: the model, the leadership ladder, the trainings, and the distributed structure. We're looking for a driven leader who can design an organizing model and then run it at scale, develop leaders, and convert diffuse public anxiety into mobilizations that candidates and elected officials can't ignore.

Organizing model and infrastructure. Evaluate, design, and build our organizing model and the systems underneath it: recruitment pipelines, onboarding, leadership ladders, training curriculum, and the data and tools that hold it together.

Mobilization and mass actions. Design and deliver our signature organizing moments, from mass mobilizations to distributed events across the country, lobby days, and rapid-response actions when the moment demands them.

Leadership development. Identify, train, and support volunteer leaders in key states and districts. Build a program that moves people from a first click to hosting a house party to running a local team, and that keeps them engaged when the news cycle moves on.

Strategy and management. Serve on the senior leadership team, set organizing strategy through the 2026 and 2028 cycles and the legislative window that follows, and hire and manage field organizers and organizing staff as we grow. Work with our political and communications teams so that organizing energy lands on the right targets, and with counsel to keep activity properly structured across our 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities.

Who you are

We are a small team of experienced organizers, campaigners, and communicators with a big vision, and are looking for dynamic, motivated collaborators who can help build the organization's core functions. We don't expect anyone to check every box. If you meet most of this and the mission grabs you, apply:

10+ years in organizing — labor, community, issue advocacy, or electoral field — with senior-level responsibility for organizing strategy.

You've built something. You have stood up an organizing program, a chapter network, or a distributed structure where one didn't exist, and can speak to what worked and what didn't.

Ready to get your hands dirty. We are a startup organization, so it’s all hands on deck. We dig in together on high-level strategy and mundane everyday tasks.

Leadership development fluency. You know how to turn supporters into leaders and leaders into organizers, and you have opinions about which models do that well at scale.

Turnout instincts. You can name the number you'll hit and hit it, and you understand what systems need to be in place to actually move people.

Fluency with organizing data and tools, including CRMs, distributed organizing platforms, and the metrics that tell you whether a program is healthy.

Excellent project management skills, with efficient time and workload management skills and orientation to detail

Collaborative and respectful. Works well both independently and collaboratively; a track record of working with people across lines of difference, and engaging with diverse communities.

Consistently good judgment and integrity. You make sound calls with incomplete information, know when to move fast and when to slow down, and leadership can trust your decisions without reviewing every detail.

Excellent written and verbal communication. You can present complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Populist orientation. We punch up at concentrated corporate power, and elevate the voices of everyday people.

Interest in AI policy. Deep expertise is great, but a willingness to learn is all that is required.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and early applicants prioritized. See additional roles here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from working-class backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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