Patrick Wolff for CA Insurance Commissioner: Campaign Manager

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About the Race

California’s Insurance Commissioner oversees one of the largest insurance markets in the world, shaping how coverage is regulated and affecting cost, availability, and quality for millions of Californians. This office touches nearly every part of life and business—from buying a home or car to accessing health care and recovering after disasters. With rising costs and shrinking options, the role is more critical than ever.

Patrick Wolff—a financial analyst, father, and lifelong Democrat with deep insurance experience—is running to bring fairness, transparency, and meaningful reform to a struggling system. He’s committed to a market that is fair, efficient, and consumer-focused, and his expertise and practical leadership uniquely qualify him to lead this office.

What You’ll Do

We’re hiring a full-time ** Campaign Manager** to lead day-to-day strategy and execution for a disciplined, metrics-driven statewide campaign. You’ll work directly with the candidate, senior advisors, staff, and consultants to drive results through Election Day.

This role is ideal for a manager who owns the plan, leads people, and turns big-picture goals into weekly action across field, communications, digital, policy, fundraising, and operations. Familiarity with California’s insurance landscape is a plus, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Campaign plan & calendar: Build and maintain an integrated plan with clear goals, timelines, and KPIs across comms, digital, political, policy, and fundraising; provide weekly reports to the candidate and principals.

• Team leadership: Manage staff, volunteers, and fellows; coordinate work with consultants (media, polling, digital, compliance, legal).

• Fundraising: Lead call time and events; manage pipelines, prospecting, and donor outreach; deliver tight materials, briefers, and follow-ups.

• Communications: Drive weekly message priorities; coordinate press with media consultants and align email, web, and social.

• Policy preparedness: Translate policy into voter-facing narratives and FAQs; support prep for interviews, debates, and stakeholder meetings.

• Stakeholders & coalitions: Build relationships with community leaders, advocates, labor, business, and local officials; plan regional travel and local activations with digital/media.

• Compliance: Track California election timelines and filings with counsel/compliance; ensure all deadlines are met.

• Crisis management: Run war-room protocols, escalation paths, and after-action reviews.

Requirements

• 2+ years as a campaign manager, deputy, or department lead (field, comms, digital, or finance); statewide experience preferred.

• Proven record of building teams, managing budgets, and hitting goals under tight deadlines.

• Excellent strategic, project-management, and written/verbal communication skills.

• Comfortable with (or quick to learn) tools like NGP VAN, PDI, ActBlue, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, and Squarespace.

• Willing to travel across California as needed.

• Bay Area location preferred; hybrid possible.