Executive Vice President

About RepresentUs
RepresentUs brings together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful state and local laws that fix our broken elections and stop political bribery. Our strategy is central to ending political corruption, extremism, and gridlock.

We are the nation’s leading right-left anti-corruption organization with a mission to stop political bribery, end secret money, and fix our broken elections. Every day we are hard at work to secure crucial victories that are defending our Republic and fixing America’s corrupt political system.

RepresentUs is a carefully curated mix of seasoned political campaigners, policy wonks, advertising experts, designers, and engineers. We’re not a startup, but we’ve got startup DNA: we’re nimble, constantly learning and iterating, and we push ourselves to push the envelope—to ignore “industry standards” and set a new standard.

We have passed 124 Anti-Corruption Acts and Resolutions in cities & states across the country – and we’re just getting started. In 2022, RepresentUs will continue harnessing the power of the pro-democracy movement to get federal voting rights legislation over the finish line and fight for the fairest possible redistricting maps in Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and elsewhere. As the midterms draw closer, the organization will focus on protecting our elections by preventing election manipulation in battleground states.

About the Role
RepresentUs seeks an Executive Vice President (EVP) to serve in a newly created role on the organization’s Leadership Team. Reporting to the CEO and working collaboratively with staff across the organization, the EVP will drive organizational strategy and lead an ambitious portfolio of political campaigns and a dedicated team that designs, supports, and wins ballot initiatives, legislative lobbying, and accountability campaigns to enact the organization’s democracy reform policy goals into substantive law.

In addition to overseeing the portfolio of political work, the EVP also oversees all marketing, movement-building, and membership growth/retention efforts, including managing RepresentUs’s programmatic budget. This is a unique role with broad, strategic reach across the organization and the ability to drive impact through various functions, ultimately playing a key role in ensuring RepresentUs meets and exceeds organizational goals and aspirations.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, political visionary who brings a record of impact leading sweeping, national political change and sees a path forward to effectively fix America’s corrupt political system. They are relentless, bold, strategic, and values-driven, and excited to work with conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to save America’s dying democracy. They are not afraid to challenge the status quo and stand firmly in support of RepresentUs organizational goals. They deeply understand campaigns, policy, movement building, bridge building and bring experience leading thriving, inclusive, cross-functional teams to exceed ambitious goals. They are the leader that people seek out and want to work for, and they are known for getting things done in challenging environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute RepresentUs political strategy, new policy initiatives and define RepresentUs position on key issues.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO, COO, and Senior Team on all aspects of policy and political campaigns.
• Provide leadership with internal and external stakeholders in representing and developing strategic programs and policy initiatives.
• Engage in long-term strategic planning, determining the organization’s policy priorities.
• Identify and leverage areas of opportunity, both internally and externally, in support of RepresentUs’s mission.
• Supervise senior political, marketing, and campaigns staff members.
• Serve as a key external spokesperson with donors, press, and other stakeholders.
• Review and approve all policy projects, including workflow and goals, staffing, and funding priorities.
• Serve as a liaison between the Leadership Team and staff, and the Board of Directors.
• In collaboration with the political, marketing, and campaign department heads, build and manage strong individual and foundation fundraising relationships.
• Conduct direct fundraising with political, marketing, and campaign department heads in support of teams or projects.
• Oversee the preparation of reports, briefings, presentations, and responses on RepresentUs issues.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and decision support for the CEO, COO, and Senior Team.

Desired Skills and Competencies

• 20+ years of experience working in political, legislative, government, and/or nonprofit organizations, with 5+ years of high-level management experience.
• Experience and comfort working in nonpartisan and conservative politics on federal, state, and/or local levels.
• Fluency and experience with modern political campaigns, including digital, field, communications, lobbying, ballot measures, and compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to set and achieve strategic priorities for large, multi-faceted policy and advocacy teams.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects with competing priorities, delegate responsibilities, collaborate with others, and manage budgets, to achieve success in all areas.
• Excellent team management experience, including a successful track record of recruiting, supporting the professional development, and retention of diverse teams.
• Superb interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, and funders.
• Demonstrated success with fundraising for large-scale projects and initiatives, strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated strategic/big picture mindset and ability to implement that vision.
• Ability to thrive and quickly adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Election, ethics, campaign finance policy expertise are a plus.
• An unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Physical Requirements

RepresentUs is committed to supporting employees of varying abilities and providing reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to thrive at RepresentUs.The requirements of this role, related to its physical demands, described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. All employees must be able to operate a computer and use a cell phone. For roles that include frequent business travel expectations, we can discuss reasonable alternatives to travel in some instances. Most roles also require communicating with key external stakeholders of the organization in person, via the telephone, or via email. Applicants with questions about accommodations may request to speak with our ADA liaison, Heather Gresham, ADA@represent.us.

Essential functions of the role include:

• Working from a computer for long periods of time;
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may also frequently be required to communicate using the telephone, email, and in-person with stakeholders; and
• This position has at least 25% travel expectations (depending on home location) and is eligible for flexible work hour arrangements.

Compensation and Benefits

We’re committed to bringing in top talent from all sectors. Accordingly, we offer competitive salaries and pretty awesome benefits, including health and dental, a health reimbursement account, wellness perks, a dependent care account, a health concierge benefit, disability and life insurance, a $1,500 professional development stipend, and a retirement benefit. Oh, and we have this wild idea that we’ll do better work if we have time to see our friends and families, so we get four weeks of paid vacation a year, plus personal and sick time.

The annual salary range for the Executive Vice President position is $185K-$225K.

Democracy is for all, and at RepresentUs, so is our workplace. That's why we're an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to evolving our staff and board to reflect the full diversity of America and the communities we aim to serve. As we seek the best of the best to join our ranks, we welcome applications from all walks of life (including but not limited to BIPOC/people of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ candidates) because we know that our democracy-building work has greater impact when we center diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and ideologies.

Once on the team, we encourage our teammates to bring their whole selves to work. We’re continually working to increase our cultural awareness, strengthen our approach to equity, and foster a climate of inclusion in all that we do. Read our statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion here. RepresentUs has established the following “foundational agreements.” They are agreements that all staff—and prospective staff—must consider and consent to in order to work here. Come win with us!

Apply here.