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title: 'EpicWorks Deputy Director at Working Families Party'
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# EpicWorks Deputy Director at Working Families Party

- **Company:** Working Families Party
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $121k–$204k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies/3fc5d521-bc0f-4afe-8aa2-2222b6a8eb68

## Job description

## About EpicWorks

EpicWorks provides movement organizations with the values-aligned infrastructure and services they need to fulfill their missions with confidence. We help strengthen the core of their operations by providing essential, dependable services related to people practices, financial management, legal compliance and organizational health. EpicWorks sets up organizations to achieve greater impact.

EpicWorks team members specialize in finance, human resources, compliance, legal services, organizational culture and labor relations. Each team member brings years—often decades—of experience supporting organizations fighting for justice.

This role will work directly for EpicWorks and will not be employed by Working Families Party or Working Families Power.

## ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Deputy Director is a senior leader responsible for helping turn EpicWorks’ strategy and priorities into action. Working closely with the Executive Director and senior leadership team, the Deputy Director will lead major organizational initiatives, manage and develop staff, strengthen management and labor relations practices, and help ensure that teams and projects deliver on their commitments. This role requires an exceptional people leader and project manager—someone who shapes culture, creates clarity, establishes accountability, drives work forward, and helps others succeed. The ideal candidate combines strong judgment and strategic thinking with a bias toward action and follow-through.

## ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Organizational Leadership & Execution

- Translate organizational strategy into clear priorities, plans, and measurable outcomes to undergird the larger performance management process.
- Manage principals towards organizational and departmental goals, including holding members of the senior leadership team accountable.
- Lead major cross-entity projects like our process to onboard participating organizations or strategic risk mitigation efforts from planning through implementation, establishing clear ownership, timelines, deliverables, and accountability.
- Identify barriers to progress, facilitate decisions, and ensure commitments translate into action.
- Strengthen coordination across teams and improve systems and processes that support organizational effectiveness by developing a new structure for accountability that can be implemented by our two cross functional teams –  Participating Organizational Services and Compliance.
- Support the EpicWorks Advisory Board and the Executive Director by planning and facilitating pieces of our quarterly meetings.
- Oversee risk mitigation strategy and crisis response protocols for the organization, including monitoring risk, leading process documentation and document retention efforts.
- Support business continuity planning through close partnership with the Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director and Controller.
- Ensure financial strategy is tightly aligned with organizational priorities and drives sustainable growth.

People Management & Organizational Effectiveness

- Partner with the Executive Director and department heads as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, providing candid feedback, honest counsel, and constructive challenges.
- Manage and develop staff through clear expectations, regular coaching and feedback, professional development, and accountability for results.
- Support Director of People and Process and Executive Director in performance management, goal-setting, and organizational planning.
- Lead internal staff learning and communication efforts, including all-staff and manager meetings.
- Develop and oversee a strong onboarding experience for EpicWorks staff.

Management & Labor-Relations Leadership

- Oversee labor and management relations.
- Serve as a senior advisor to executives of Participating Organizations on complex labor relations, collective bargaining, organizational change, partnership-building approaches, workforce impacts, and conflict.
- Help develop and advance EpicWorks’ approach to progressive, values-aligned management and labor relations.
- Develop training, coaching, tools, and shared resources that strengthen management capacity across EpicWorks and Participating Organizations.
- Advise EpicWorks’ leaders and Participating Organizational leads on management and labor-relations challenges, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Build opportunities for shared learning and disseminate effective management practices across the EpicWorks network.

Program & Partner Leadership

- Ensure coordination across Finance, People & Culture, Legal, Technology, Operations, and key Participating Organization contacts so policy and process don't work at cross-purposes.
- Sponsor organization-wide initiatives requiring multi-functional coordination.
- Provide strategic oversight to assigned programs and initiatives, ensuring clear goals, strong execution, and alignment with organizational priorities.
- Establish meaningful measures of program effectiveness and regularly assess and present progress against goals.
- Partner with Finance and program staff to monitor budgets, performance, and sustainability.
- Build strong relationships with Participating Organizations and other partners and use their feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Represent EpicWorks with Participating Organizations, unions, partners, funders, and other stakeholders.

## SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

- At least 10 years of experience with expertise in nonprofit management, political campaigns, or organizational operations with increasing levels of responsibility.
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role, preferably managing multi-functional teams and projects.
- Demonstrated experience strengthening organizational project management capacity, including introducing effective tools and practices, coaching staff, and helping teams build the skills needed to plan, coordinate, and drive complex projects to completion.
- Strong people-management experience, including coaching and developing staff, managing managers, setting expectations, and supporting accountability and performance.
- Strong judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive organizational issues.
- Some data analysis skills, with the ability to identify trends and drive data-informed decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong, trusting relationships across teams and with organizational leaders, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Some experience working within a collective bargaining environment and partnering effectively with union leadership.
- Some experience with complex, multi-entity nonprofit structures, such as organizations that include 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and PAC entities.
- Demonstrated commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice and to building equitable, values-aligned organizations.

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 EpicWorks 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.

This role will work directly for EpicWorks and will not be employed by Working Families Party or Working Families Power.

## 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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