Senior Technical Lead

About Run for Something

Run for Something recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for down-ballot races to build sustainable power nationwide. Since 2017, RFS has engaged nearly 250,000 potential candidates, endorsed over 4,000, and celebrated 1,500+ election victories. RFS alumni drive impactful changes in housing, abortion access, and education, shaping the Democratic Party's future.

RFS fosters a culture emphasizing work-life balance, sustainability, and a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. With strategic, year-round initiatives, RFS is dedicated to long-term democracy-building.

Learn more about our work and values on our Careers page.

Position Name:
Senior Technical Lead

Reporting Structure:
This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer

Location:

Remote (U.S.)
Job Classification:
Full Time, Exempt

Run for Something is hiring a Senior Technical Lead! In this role, you will lead technical initiatives, ensuring that Run for Something’s technology infrastructure supports our mission of recruiting and supporting young, progressive candidates, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds, for down-ballot offices.

The Senior Technical Lead will collaborate closely with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to scope, prioritize, and implement key technical initiatives. This includes identifying organizational gaps and opportunities, setting vision and designing technical solutions that advance programmatic, communications, and fundraising goals, and leading implementation across teams. This role partners with department heads — including Programs, Development, and Communications — to conceptualize and deliver technology initiatives that strengthen RFS’s impact, from data infrastructure to revenue-generating SaaS.

You will also contribute your expertise to build new software, extend existing platforms, craft automations, orchestrate data pipelines, integrate APIs, and create reporting solutions.

As a technical leader, you will mentor and guide our growing tech team, ensuring the integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals into all technical projects. This role requires balancing multiple cross‑functional collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that technical initiatives are aligned with the strategic goals of the organization. Additionally, you will work on the ongoing maintenance and development of Run for Something’s core technology systems, ensuring that both public-facing websites, web apps, and internal tools, such as the custom-built candidate recruitment pipeline, are continuously improved.

The Senior Technical Lead also supports organizational priorities, maintains alignment with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals, and upholds the core values while contributing to a collaborative, inclusive culture.

• Partner with CTO to ensure all tech initiatives are aligned with organizational goals
• Lead new technical initiatives, including building new software, extending existing platforms, crafting automations, orchestrating data pipelines, integrating APIs, and creating reporting solutions.
• Identify cross‑departmental challenges and opportunities, designing and leading tech initiatives that improve workflows, efficiency, and impact across Programs, Development, and Communications teams.
• Partner and collaborate with senior leaders across departments to identify alignment and drive efficiency in technical projects; work strategically with senior leaders to improve workflows and measurement of KPIs across the organization
• Support a candidate services strategy that allows RFS to provide advice and expertise on technical strategies for campaigns.
• As a technical manager, contribute to organization‑wide strategy and initiatives; be an active leader and advocate for RFS’ philosophy, mission, values, culture, and DEI goals throughout the organization.
• Ensure collection, storage, and reporting of data is compliant, especially for new data and software products.

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