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title: 'California Senior Finance Director at Working Families Party'
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# California Senior Finance Director at Working Families Party

- **Company:** Working Families Party
- **Location:** California
- **Compensation:** $86k–$145k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies/eea5d973-c85a-4f2b-af1f-735d2caa1639

## Job description

## About the Working Families Party

The Working Families Party (WFP) is the progressive party for the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that works for the many, not the few. We recruit, train, and support transformational candidates up and down the ballot — and run them to win.

We believe that no matter where we come from or what our color, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.

The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.

## ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Working Families Party is seeking a California Senior Finance Director to set and drive the fundraising strategy for our work across the state. Working under the strategic direction of the Director of Individual Giving, the Senior Finance Director owns the California revenue plan, personally manages significant donor relationships, and builds infrastructure required to meet ambitious multi-cycle goals. The Senior Finance Director will carry a portfolio of the state’s highest-capacity donors, bundlers, and serve as a trusted advisor to state and national principals on their donor engagement. Day-to-day call time management, donor research, and event logistics are directed by you and executed by the staff and consultants you supervise.

## ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own the California revenue plan: build and maintain a cycle-long fundraising strategy and budget in partnership with the Director of Individual Giving and state leadership, with targets set by donor segment, entity, channel, and campaign.

- Manage a senior portfolio: personally cultivate, solicit, and steward the state’s highest-capacity individual donors, family foundations, labor and allied institutions, and PACs, including five- and six-figure commitments and multi-year pledges.

- Advise principals rather than staff them: serve as the strategic counsel to state and national principals on fundraising—determining the highest-leverage asks, which relationships genuinely require their time, and how their political capital is deployed. Set the direction and quality bar for the call time program without serving as its primary operator.

- Build and lead the team: supervise, coach, and develop California finance staff and consultants; set priorities, delegate clearly, and hold a high standard for follow-through, data hygiene, and donor experience.

- Grow the donor universe structurally: develop bundler networks, host committees, and peer-to-peer donor leadership so that the program’s growth does not depend on any single principal’s calendar.

- Navigate a multi-entity landscape: partner with compliance, legal, and finance operations on contribution limits, entity structure, transfers, and reporting deadlines across our party committee, PAC, and affiliated entities; make strategic recommendations about where dollars should land.

- Set event strategy: determine which events are worth doing and what they are for and oversee the team executing them.

- Integrate finance with the broader program: work with political, organizing, communications, and Director of Individual Giving so that fundraising strategy reflects and reinforces WFP’s political priorities in California.

## SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

- Senior Fundraising Experience: 5+ years of political or advocacy fundraising experience, including federal, statewide, or comparable large-scale programs. Demonstrated track record personally closing major gifts and owning revenue goals for a multimillion-dollar program.

- Strategic Thinker: Able to zoom out from the call sheet to the cycle. Builds plans grounded in real assumptions, anticipates where a plan will break, and adjusts early rather than late. Can articulate trade-offs clearly to leadership and make a recommendation.

- Principal Ready Judgment: Credibility and confidence to advise principals, senior elected officials, and high-capacity donors—including the judgment to say no, protect a relationship, or push back when the strategy calls for it.

- Data and Compliance Fluency: Comfortable owning forecasts and pipeline analysis; fluent in CRM-driven programs (currently: EveryAction). Working knowledge of California and federal campaign finance rules, with the instinct to loop in counsel early.

- Project Manager: Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; manages competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, plans backwards from deadlines, and works evenings/weekends as the calendar demands.

- Mission Alignment: A commitment to building a party that seeks governing power by, for, and with working class people of all races.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor, or take over sponsorship of, employment visas at this time.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Families Party is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to apply for or perform the essential functions of the job should contact us at jobs@workingfamilies.org with the subject line "Application Accommodation" to request such an accommodation.

## About Working Families Party

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive political party in the United States that fights for the multiracial working class by recruiting, training, and electing people-powered candidates.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Nonprofit Political Organization)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 1998
- **Founders**: Bertha Lewis, Dan Cantor (merger of the New Party, Citizen Action, and ACORN)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Political Organizations, Electoral Campaigning, Advocacy
- **Target customers**: Voters, activists, working-class individuals, unions, community organizations (B2C and B2B with partner groups)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build a nation that works for the many, not the few – fighting for higher wages, fair criminal justice, and getting money out of politics.

## Products & Services
- **Candidate Recruitment & Training**: WFP identifies and trains progressive candidates for offices from city council to U.S. Senate.
- **Electoral Campaigns**: Runs field organizing, messaging, and get-out-the-vote operations, sometimes in Democratic primaries, sometimes on the WFP ballot line.
- **Coalition Building**: Partners with unions, community organizations, and social movements to advance a shared legislative agenda.
- **Membership Program**: Offers a dues-paying membership ($10/month or $120/year) that gives supporters a direct role in party governance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (nonprofit)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD $3,653,167 (most recent data); Membership of 69,622 (December 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Unions, community organizations, and social movements; the party is governed by its members and partner groups.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for multiple senior roles (Chief Development Officer, Director of Engineering, state directors, organizers); expanding into new states like Massachusetts and Rhode Island; 152 employees with offices in five U.S. locations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fusion Voting Strategy**: WFP cross-endorses candidates on its own ballot line in states where fusion voting is legal, giving working-class voters a distinct progressive option without "spoiling" the election.
- **Multiracial Coalition**: Deliberately built as a multiracial party, uniting diverse communities around shared economic and social justice goals.
- **Proven Track Record**: Over two decades of electing transformational leaders and winning major policy victories (higher wages, criminal justice reform, money-in-politics reform).

## Strategic Focus
- **State Chapter Expansion**: Currently building new state chapters (e.g., Massachusetts, Rhode Island) and deepening existing ones (California, New York, Oregon).
- **Electoral Power**: Recruiting and running candidates up and down the ballot, with a focus on local and state races that build long-term movement infrastructure.
- **Data & Technology**: Investing in engineering and data infrastructure to better target voters and measure campaign effectiveness (recently hiring a Director of Engineering).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Staff are deeply committed to progressive change and working in a unionized, inclusive environment.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Health/dental/vision (first of month after hire), FSA, life insurance, 401(k) with immediate vesting, generous vacation (including comp time, sick days, personal days), paid parental leave (up to 12 weeks), sabbatical after 4 years, short-term disability, and $400/year professional development fund.
- **Remote/Hybrid Options**: Many roles are fully remote; some are hybrid (e.g., California organizer roles). Utility reimbursement of up to $175/month for home office costs.
- **Unionized Workplace**: Employees are represented by the New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United union.
- **Employee Reviews**: 3.5/5.0 on employer rating (56 reviews). Culture scored highest (3.8), work-life balance 3.1, compensation 2.7, career 2.8.

## Sources
1. [workingfamilies.org - Jobs](https://workingfamilies.org/jobs/)
2. [workingfamilies.org - About](https://workingfamilies.org/about/)
3. [workingfamilies.org - Home](https://workingfamilies.org/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies](https://jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies)
5. [linkedin.com/company/working-families-party](https://www.linkedin.com/company/working-families-party)

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