2026 Digital Director
Empower 2026 Digital Director
Employment Type: Full Time Minimum Experience: Management
About Us
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing.
Empower Project organizes to improve peoples lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, weve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.
Its effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.
Its growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!
About the Program and Role
In 2026 well be running paid relational organizing programs programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort in several states including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Core Responsibilities:
Supervising Digital Organizers who will be responsible for implementing the Peer to Peer program that will drive most of the recruitment.
Determining and driving digital strategies to raise awareness of the program.
Supervising and leading all Digital Communications projects.
Collaborating with team members, other departments, and external partners as needed to ensure digital projects are completed effectively and efficiently.
Supervising the creation of digital content and assets according to defined brand specifications, including but not limited to training materials, website content, video, graphics, digital ad collateral, and email templates.
Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the CM recruitment pipeline.
Assisting program leadership with other activities.
Candidates must have extensive experience working with political CRMs like EveryAction or Action Network and Peer to Peer texting tools such as Scale to Win. Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in one of our key states, have experience with relational organizing, or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.
Compensation This is a full-time, remote, salaried position available February 9th, 2026 and lasting through November 13th, 2026. The work schedule is five days per week, Monday through Thursday, from 9:30am to 6:30pm ET, and shortened hours on Fridays. After Labor Day, the work schedule will be six days per week, with shortened hours on Fridays and Saturdays off. We will also work the full week before the November election.
The salary for this position is $7,000/month. Because this role has a fixed term, you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time, per our employee handbook.
Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.
2026 Digital Director
Empower 2026 Digital Director
Employment Type: Full Time Minimum Experience: Management
About Us
Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing.
Empower Project organizes to improve peoples lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, weve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.
Its effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.
Its growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!
About the Program and Role
In 2026 well be running paid relational organizing programs programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort in several states including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Core Responsibilities:
Supervising Digital Organizers who will be responsible for implementing the Peer to Peer program that will drive most of the recruitment.
Determining and driving digital strategies to raise awareness of the program.
Supervising and leading all Digital Communications projects.
Collaborating with team members, other departments, and external partners as needed to ensure digital projects are completed effectively and efficiently.
Supervising the creation of digital content and assets according to defined brand specifications, including but not limited to training materials, website content, video, graphics, digital ad collateral, and email templates.
Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the CM recruitment pipeline.
Assisting program leadership with other activities.
Candidates must have extensive experience working with political CRMs like EveryAction or Action Network and Peer to Peer texting tools such as Scale to Win. Additional consideration will be given to candidates who have existing relationships in one of our key states, have experience with relational organizing, or are fluent in a second language, including Spanish.
Compensation This is a full-time, remote, salaried position available February 9th, 2026 and lasting through November 13th, 2026. The work schedule is five days per week, Monday through Thursday, from 9:30am to 6:30pm ET, and shortened hours on Fridays. After Labor Day, the work schedule will be six days per week, with shortened hours on Fridays and Saturdays off. We will also work the full week before the November election.
The salary for this position is $7,000/month. Because this role has a fixed term, you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time, per our employee handbook.
Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.