Michigan Director (Campaigns Department)

In your first year, key responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with campaign leads to identify high-impact policy and campaign opportunities
• Finalizing stakeholder and power maps in collaboration with our Field Building team
• Building relationships with key allies and developing strategic alliances with stakeholders across the spectrum
• Designing integrated campaign strategies rooted in firm policy and power analysis
• Supporting existing state efforts that advance jobs, justice, and climate goals in the industrial sector
• Leading fundraising efforts to grow the state program and team

You'll also:

• 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 state-level campaigns that deliver lasting change, drastically reduce dangerous emissions, make industry accountable to communities and workers, and develop a circular economy.

Core Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with and tailoring strategies to collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including labor, community organizations, businesses and associations, climate groups, and more
• Comfortable in a matrixed environment and skilled at cross-functional collaboration
• Entrepreneurial spark — you've built things before and thrive in fast-growing environments

The salary for this position is $156,000 effective 1/1/2026. Industrious Labs has a policy not to negotiate salaries. We offer competitive benefits, including 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).

At Industrious Labs, our 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.