Michigan Director (Campaigns Department)

• Partner with campaign leads to identify high-impact policy and campaign opportunities
• Finalize stakeholder and power maps in collaboration with our Field Building team
• Build relationships with key allies and develop strategic alliances with stakeholders across the spectrum
• Design integrated campaign strategies rooted in firm policy and power analysis
• Support existing state efforts that advance jobs, justice, and climate goals in the industrial sector
• Lead fundraising efforts to grow the state program and team
• Represent Industrious Labs in coalition spaces, with media, and in conversations with public officials and funders
• Lead the development and execution of state-level campaign strategies
• Develop policy expertise in key sectors like steel, cement, and industrial heat, as well as climate, labor, and air quality policy

This role creates positive change by transforming industry to serve workers, communities, and the planet through campaigns that deliver lasting change and make a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs.

• 10–15 years of experience with increasing responsibility leading teams and driving shared goals
• Background in policy development, organizing, or leadership within advocacy or movement spaces
• Experience designing policy campaigns and using tools like power mapping, strategy charts, or narrative development
• Strong familiarity with how state and local agencies and venues function
• A relationship-builder with ties to grassroots groups, labor, EJ communities, policymakers, and other key players in Michigan
• Proven track record of delivering policy wins and moving ideas from strategy through implementation
• Strong project management skills and the skills to juggle priorities
• Experience managing staff and developing teams
• Deep alignment with our mission, values, and goals
• Highly collaborative work style and service as a peer and thought partner
• Commitment to learning, curiosity, and personal growth
• Strong communication skills — able to break down complex issues into clear strategies and decisions
• Excited by the unknown and eager to build
• Proven leadership and commitment to equity, transparency, and team culture
• Demonstrated experience working across lines of race, class, gender, and geography
• Skill within a dynamic, fast-paced environment and moving between solo efforts and teamwork
• Openness to giving and receiving compassionate, direct feedback

Salary: $152,000

Benefits include: 100% employer-paid health coverage (medical, dental, and vision), a work-from-home stipend, up to 5% 401k employer match, 11 paid holidays, and unlimited vacation (with a minimum of 15 business days).

Industrious Labs' mission is to set into motion unstoppable policies, people power, and analysis to make a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs that drastically reduce dangerous emissions, make industry accountable to communities and workers, and develop a circular economy.