[Hiring] Senior Finance Director @Working Families Party

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Credibility and confidence to advise principals, senior elected officials, and high-capacity donors.
• Comfortable owning forecasts and pipeline analysis; fluent in CRM-driven programs (currently: EveryAction).
• Working knowledge of California and federal campaign finance rules.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; manages competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A commitment to building a party that seeks governing power by, for, and with working class people of all races.

Salary & Compensation

• $86,400 - $145,000 a year
• The final salary offer will fall into one of the following ranges depending on where you live:
  • National Market (most locations): $86,400 - $122,200
  • High Market (e.g., Baltimore, Los Angeles, Portland): $101,100 - $133,600
  • Very High Market (e.g., Boston, New York City, San Francisco): $109,700 - $145,000

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement plan options
• Professional development funding
• Remote work support

Union Affiliation

WFP is a unionized workplace. This is a managerial position that is excluded from the bargaining unit. WFP union employees are represented by Workers United affiliated with SEIU and the affiliated Local 1115, Workers United.

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.