California State Organizing Director

Core responsibilities:

• Lead legislative advocacy, state-level communications, and state-based organizing strategies in coordination with national office staff and aligned with TTJ's overall goals and policy agenda
• Recruit and train stakeholders and advance them through TTJ's leadership development pipelines while providing state-specific feedback
• Maintain or coordinate relationships with legislative members and staff, state regulatory agencies, lobbyists, allied organizations, local-level office holders, and members of Congress
• Work in close coordination with TechTonic Justice's California Staff Attorney and organizing team to align organizing and legal strategies

This role creates positive change by fighting ground-level harms that AI causes low-income communities, supporting local justice movements to identify and fight harmful uses of AI, and building durable pathways to accountability and protection through organizing, legal advocacy, and narrative strategy.

Required skills and experience:

• Extensive organizing experience with significant responsibility for strategy, campaign leadership, and managing staff (approximately 5+ years of organizing, including 2+ years of staff management)
• Proven ability to build and execute successful organizing campaigns
• Experience working with diverse communities and coalitions, including ability to navigate complex, multi-entity partnerships
• Comfort articulating intersections between poverty, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, language, age, disability, and related characteristics
• Driver's license, access to a car, and proximity to a convenient airport for travel

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary: $95,000-115,000 depending on experience with anticipated annual cost-of-living increases
• 100% of quality medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for the employee
• 50% of dependents' medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Automatic 4% contribution by TechTonic Justice to a Vanguard 403(b) retirement account
• Unlimited paid time off (subject to approval)
• Monthly internet reimbursement up to $75
• Professional development fund of $1,500
• Travel costs covered (mileage, airfare, hotels, meals)
• Schedule flexibility to fit personal situations

TechTonic Justice fights the ground-level harms AI causes low-income communities by supporting local justice movements—legal aid organizations, frontline service providers, grassroots organizers, and affected communities—to identify and fight harmful uses of AI through a multidimensional advocacy approach blending litigation, community activation, organizing, public education, and narrative advocacy.