Swing Left

Software Engineer

• The engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the technical infrastructure that powers Swing Left and Vote Forward’s programs, ensuring our digital tools effectively support volunteer action and organizational goals
• The Senior Director of Engineering leads this team in implementing software solutions across swingleft.org, votefwd.org, and related platforms—developing reliable, scalable code and managing integrations with grassroots organizing tools and data providers
• The Senior Director of Engineering collaborates closely with product, analytics, and program teams to drive the product development lifecycle, support experimentation, and continuously improve user experiences
• Oversee the creation of technical strategy and architecture for the organization’s engineering infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and security
• Develop proactive capacity and resourcing plans to support the organization’s current and future engineering needs, manage the hiring of new engineers, and onboard engineering contractors (where required) to supplement capacity
• Foster a cohesive, healthy, and high-performing engineering team culture, including the adoption of best practices for the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with the product team on the product roadmap by understanding relevant internal and external technical needs and how to solve them with working, high-quality, scalable software that is aligned with organizational infrastructure
• Lead the technical implementation of the product development lifecycle to ship high-quality, well-tested code; oversee prioritization of tactical backlogs and estimation of technical scopes of work for large projects
• Act as the organization’s lead engineering representative for relationships with key partners, including those involved in Ground Truth
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical and operational risks, including through continuous monitoring of health metrics and alerts for our platforms
• Lead the technical aspect of organizational rapid-response efforts as needed.

Senior Director of Engineering

Recruitment

• Make recruitment calls to Vote Forward volunteers through a dialer to ask them to join Vote Forward and the California Prop 50 campaign.
• Attend training and follow guidance for phone banking and making effective volunteer recruitment calls.
• Join scheduled training and phone bank events hosted via Zoom and sign up for sessions.
• Use an online calling system/dialer that automatically dials phone numbers and connects the caller to a person when they pick up, keeping personal information like phone numbers secure.
• Use a personal laptop/computer and phone to join phone bank events and make calls through a dialer.
• Follow a written script during phone conversations.
• Support Vote Forward’s efforts to recruit, train, and activate volunteers at scale in the final month of the California Prop 50 campaign.

Volunteer Recruiter – Phone Banking

Social Media Manager

• Own the organization’s social media strategy, translating organization priorities into short-form content.
• Lead day-to-day execution of social content; plan, write, edit, and approve high-quality, on-brand content with clarity, urgency, and persuasion, and cultivate the work of other contributors.
• Directly manage one full-time staff member, cultivating their skills, and manage external contributors for creative production work.
• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Editorial & Digital Campaigns to align social content with the broader editorial calendar.
• Shape and drive priorities for creative production, ensuring photo, video, graphics, design, and influencer/content-creator work are aligned with campaign and organizational goals.
• Manage relationships with influencers and content creators, developing partnerships and campaigns that expand audience and engagement.
• Manage the creative pipeline, directing workflows to ensure assets are produced quickly, on brand, and at a high level of quality.
• Help drive marketing campaign launches across digital channels in close coordination with the Senior Director of Editorial & Digital Campaigns.
• Play a lead role in rapid-response moments, quickly producing and publishing social content that is aligned with campaign priorities.
• Manage the process to capture and elevate storytelling from internal departments, volunteers, political campaigns, and grassroots partners to inform content across all marketing channels.
• Monitor performance and trends, using analytics to optimize reach, engagement, and impact across platforms.
• Maintain a sharp understanding of social media best practices and platform changes, bringing innovative approaches to audience engagement and storytelling.

Director of Social Media and Creative

Director

• Direct marketing campaign orchestration across channels (email, social, and web)
• Lead the organization’s email program end to end—owning strategy, calendaring, and execution, managing an external digital agency to craft high-quality, on-brand content, and serving as the lead internal editor and approver of content
• Help build SMS and digital advertising programs
• Oversee CRM operations and innovation, including segmentation, list hygiene, deliverability, automation, and reporting
• Own and steward the editorial calendar for owned media, ensuring consistency of voice, message alignment, and seamless cross-departmental orchestration
• Directly manage one full-time staff member, cultivate their writing and editorial skills, manage the organization’s external digital (email) agency, and partner closely with the Director of Social Media & Creative to execute cohesive marketing campaign communications
• Run launches and rapid response: anticipate key moments, map out rollouts across channels, and steer the minute-by-minute execution across teams
• Write, edit, and approve high-quality, on-brand web content, and cultivate the work of other contributors
• Track and interpret performance data to maintain a strong view of response rates and outcomes for fundraising and volunteer recruitment, communicate insights and implications to internal stakeholders, and utilize learnings to shape the editorial calendar and ensure campaigns are on track to meet organizational goals
• Explore and realize integration with broader digital storytelling across website, landing pages, and campaign microsites via collaboration with internal teams (Social/Creative and Product) and external partners

Senior Director of Engineering

Volunteer Recruiter – Phone Banking

Director of Social Media and Creative

Senior Director, Editorial and Digital Campaigns