Campaign Specialist - Chicago

Tusk Ventures helps early stage tech startups win the political and regulatory fights that determine whether great companies succeed. We work with founders who are building businesses in industries where changing the law, influencing regulators or beating incumbents is just as important as building a great product. Our team combines political strategy, communications, regulatory expertise and campaign thinking to help companies enter new markets and change the rules that stand in the way of growth.

The role.

The companies we work with are taking on entrenched interests, changing outdated regulations, creating new regulatory frameworks and navigating complicated political environments. Winning those fights requires a lot of strategy, but it also requires a lot of execution.

We’re looking for a Campaign Specialist at our Chicago office who can help our team turn campaign strategy into action. That means doing the research that tells us what is actually happening on the ground, reaching out to potential partners who can help move our campaigns forward and producing the volume of social and digital content that modern campaigns require.

This is a hands-on role. You will spend a lot of time finding information, building lists, making calls, sending emails, drafting posts, tracking responses and figuring out how to get things done. Some of the work will be fast and reactive. Some of it will be repetitive. All of it matters because campaigns are often won by doing the basic things better and at greater volume than everyone else.

You’ll work across campaigns in industries including AI,healthcare, fintech, gaming and energy and alongside senior strategists who will set the overall direction. Your job is to help make those strategies real. This is not a policy job. We are looking for someone who wants to learn how campaigns work by actually working on them.

What you’ll do.

• Research what is happening on the ground. Dig into the facts we need to make good campaign decisions: who the relevant players are, what organizations exist in a market, what they have said publicly, where they stand, what relationships matter and what opportunities or problems we may be missing.
• Build research memos, lists, trackers and other materials that give campaign teams reliable information they can act on.
• Do high-volume outreach. Identify potential influencers and organizations who could support our clients and campaigns, find the right way to reach them and contact them by email, phone, social media and other channels.
• Help recruit supporters, coalition partners, validators, customers, industry participants and other people who can make a campaign stronger.
• Follow up repeatedly, keep track of responses and make sure promising conversations do not disappear into a spreadsheet.
• Draft outreach emails, call scripts, follow-ups and other materials, adapting the message depending on who we are trying to reach.
• Produce and execute social and digital content at campaign speed. Draft dozens of social posts, digital messages and other pieces of campaign content across multiple clients.
• Turn campaign messages, news developments, research and client announcements into a steady pipeline of usable content rather than waiting for every post to become a major creative exercise.
• Help manage posting calendars and execute approved content across relevant channels.
• Identify timely opportunities to join conversations online, respond to developments and amplify campaign messages.
• Support broader campaign execution, including coalition building, grassroots organizing, events, media opportunities and other tactics as needed.
• Work across several campaigns at once, stay organized and reliably close the loop on assignments.

What we’re looking for.

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