Campaign Manager
Location: California's 7th Congressional District
Compensation: $5,000 - $7,000/month (commensurate with experience)
Duration: Through November 2026 Election Day
Deadline: Open Until Filled
About the Campaign
Mai Vang is running a progressive campaign for Congress in California's 7th District, fighting for working families, affordable healthcare, and accountability in Washington. We're building a people-powered movement that centers community voices and challenges establishment politics.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced campaign manager (CM) to serve as a strategic coordinator and amplifier for our congressional campaign. We have talented team leads already driving strong workflows in their departments. We need someone who can elevate their work through candidate stewardship, cross-team coordination, and strategic support—as opposed to someone who will impose top-down control or disrupt what's already working.
Primary Responsibilities
Candidate Management and Support
The CM will serve as the candidate's primary strategic partner—managing the candidate's time to ensure they're deployed where they'll have maximum impact, preparing them thoroughly for every engagement, serving as a sounding board and trusted advisor, and shielding them from operational noise so they can focus on connecting with voters. The CM will ensure the candidate has what they need to be effective while keeping them aligned with overall campaign strategy.
Workflow Coordination
Rather than managing workflows directly, the CM will ensure they work together seamlessly. The CM will facilitate communication between teams, identify where departments need to coordinate or share information, surface potential conflicts or resource constraints before they become issues, and maintain visibility across all campaign activities. This role functions as air traffic control—ensuring safe passage and smooth operations, not dictating how individual teams execute their work.
Empowering and Supporting Team Leads
The primary objective is to make team and department leads more successful at what they're already doing well. This includes running interference when obstacles arise outside their control, securing resources and making strategic decisions that enable execution, facilitating collaboration when teams need to work together, providing strategic context and information that supports better decision-making, and advocating for team needs with the candidate and external stakeholders. Success is measured by the success of team leads on their own terms.
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority
Natural ability to build trust and credibility with subject matter experts
Experience in complex campaign environments requiring coordination without control
Strategic mindset with strong pattern recognition across teams and departments
Excellent judgment regarding when to engage and when to defer
Comfort operating in a decentralized environment where value derives from coordination, not direction
Proven track record of empowering teams rather than micromanaging
Experience working with elected officials or candidates
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means team leads feel supported rather than supervised, the candidate is well-prepared and strategically deployed, information flows naturally between teams, problems are resolved before escalation, cross-team awareness exists without burdensome meetings or bureaucracy, and teams can move quickly because paths have been cleared rather than direction imposed.
What This Role Isn't
This is not a traditional command-and-control campaign manager position. Candidates seeking to be the decision-maker on every tactical choice or to rebuild systems from scratch will not find this role a good fit. The ideal candidate can honor and amplify the expertise already present on the team.
To Apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to Cha Vang at cha@maiforus.com. The cover letter should explain fit for this unique role and include a specific example of empowering a team or coordinating across departments without imposing top-down control.
Mai Vang for Congress is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented communities.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, Jan 14
