ShareMachine Project Lead, MoveOn.org Civic Action

Over the past 18 months, the MoveOn.org website has become a hub for great progressive content, with over 3 million unique visitors per month. We're harnessing Facebook and other social media sites to identify and then amplify the most compelling progressive content on the web. We've seen early evidence of the promise of this model: Our team generated over 17 million views for a video on marriage equality, making it the top political video of 2011.

Now we're ready to take this project, ShareMachine, to the next level. So we're recruiting for a project leader who can oversee a process of analytically-driven development to systematically unearth better and better content and unlock an even bigger audience.

The perfect candidate has extremely strong tech and analytic chops and sensibility, and an interest in developing scalable new organizing models. You are fiercely intelligent, wonderfully creative, and technically savvy. You are able to develop a strong vision to guide a team, and you have the skills to make that vision a reality. And you are excited about figuring out how to harness social media as a major new channel for circulating compelling ideas and building progressive power.

Requirements:

• Exceptional project manager. Ability to sift through a complex information environment and come up with key decision points.
• Proven aptitude for analytic, data-driven approaches to problem-solving. Sharp strategic thinking.
• Ability to thrive in an environment demanding constant innovation, experimentation, and initiative.
• Solid eye for user-experience and visual design
• The ideal candidate would also have advocacy or political experience; ability to use MySQL (or a similar relational database); and some experience with web analytics.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, test, and oversee a system of filters to help evaluate the relative viral potential of visual web content, building on some promising initial learnings.
• Coordinate a small team, including a programmer and analytic colleagues. Drive team-wide conversations on experimental design and analysis of results. Bottom-line for pushing to actionable decisions.
• Use test results to evolve plans for subsequent site development and further tests.
• Support editorial team in streamlining its online process for publishing content to MoveOn's site.
• Help write periodic online fundraisers. (We are entirely powered by small donations from our seven million members; everyone on the team helps tell the story of the good work that we do and how we fund it.)
• Keep track of moving pieces across the team, including visual design for new site elements; volunteer management; status of experiments; and key decision points in software development.
  

Location: Anywhere in the continental U.S.—MoveOn operates on a virtual office model, collaborating online.

Terms: This is a contract position with an initial duration of four months, with the possibility of transitioning into long-term staff position. Starting ASAP.

To Apply: Click here to submit your resume and a brief cover letter explaining why you're interested in this position. Please also provide an example of a site or online process you helped develop.

MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action are equal opportunity employers.