_ UI/UX PWA Senior or Near Senior level Designer Part time for Activist --Primarily Moral Conscience Motivated Talent_
_ for NextGen Organizing/Mobilizing Movement Platform to End Oligarchy. Grotesque Wealth Inequality, the Duopoly, Healthcare as a Privilege, Stop the Ecocide and More_
Paid/ Part-Time • Remote OK (BUT MUST BE US time zones, exceptions: Ukraine and Palestine, AND Brasil) • To Start Immediately.
Who We're Looking For
We're seeking a medium or higher level UI/UX designer who is passionate about social- economic and political justice impact and wants their work to matter. Years of experience are a big plus, but as important are good design instincts that will resonate with our audi- ence, and a drive to help build tools that support grassroots organizing across America.
This is a part-time paid cofounder role with a path to long term well paid part time employ- ment if the project gains traction. If it does, it will strongly appeal to wealthy progressive donors, hence far higher pay. You'll work flexibly from anywhere in the US,CA, MX, Brasil, Ukraine, Germany or Ukraine, on a team that is small, mission-driven, and moving fast. We hope you’ll realize this work could become the proudest achievement of your life.
About Our Organization and The Mission
We are a scrappy nonprofit startup with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, working to build a next-generation digital platform for civic organizing, mobilizing, and mutual aid.
_This platform and its progressive web-apps are urgent, because the research (Chenoweth, Pickney, Lakey et al) and our own US history since the Civil War makes clear that our innovative organizing/ mobilizing tools will be absolutely essential to finally make feasible the most effective nonviolent tactic to not only end fascist or oligarchic regimes, but to achieve any major, radical, structural economic, political, civil or human rights change–namely the use of city, state and nationwide strikes. Similarly our new tools are urgent and will be essential to prevent the worst of the now predicted catastrophic climate collapse scenarios now horrifically accelerated by the Trump Regime. _TMK and tragically, no other activist techies are working on developing such tools, at this most critical moment in our species' history and the history of democracy.
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF EACH OF THE TOOLS
Here is the short one pager description of the three tools, one already proven, that comprise the platform. These 3 tools are logically necessary to be able to recruit and maintain city, state and national general strikes. If and when we interview, we'll assume you've read and thought about these carefully including how and why they could fail.
Our platform will consist of several interconnected apps, the three most important and first launch (hopefully by early August) will be:
AdoptAnOrganizer (AAO): A progressive web app that will have several powerful advantages over GoFundMe, to help aspiring organizers quickly meet their basic needs — housing, transportation, food, etc — so they can quit unfulfilling jobs and dedicate themselves full-time to their favorite causes. If successful, this will be key to building an army of 1000 organizers critical to such urgent needs as protecting the November elections
MAMA (Mutual Aid for Mass Actions) : A progressive web app that covers rent, mortgage, and health insurance for long-term strikers, enabling sustained nonviolent civic action able to shut down major pillars of power that support fascist regimes. This will be critical for Plan B: If the Nov. elections are stolen, our only option will be a Nat’l Nonviolent Strike & Uprising
WinWisely Innovative Ladder of Engagement (LOE): Already developed and proven simple innovative LOE able to increase resster recruitment figures exponentially for nonviolent resistance strategy based campaigns. (See demo at tinyUrl.com/GetCourageNowLOE
Our founder has launched four mission-driven startups — including two that won national several awards, and he has raised nearly $2M for investigative documentaries and two tech startup ventures. Press clips from NYT, WAPO, LA Times, etc available re the founder’s early works.
Role: All the usual responsibilities of a top UI/UX designer for a progressive web-app based platform given our unique mission and audience, and how different this is from a typical eCommerce or commercial service selling something.
Keep in mind that 1) you would be considered a cofounder with director title; and
2) we won't be able to get serious funding until we achieve proof of concept,
QUALIFICATIONS: Skill and Motivation Requirements:
Minimum 4 year fulltime UI/UX app design experience
** Excellent Communication Skills, Especially Being Responsive to msgs on signal, able to do short fixes within 48-72 hrs of notice.**
** Evidence in your prior work of commitment to social, economic, healthcare and/or climate justice values. **
** Besides figma and vercel (or equivalent) mastery and other usual tech skills, you should have UX/UI skills peculiar to a moral mission driven rather than profit driven app: Your key audience is people suffering and angry or outraged at the fascist take over, and the accelerated destruction of our mother, Earth. For example, you will need to create a place and user journey that feels more like an opportunity for sanctuary, for learning organizing skills and from fellow aspiring organizers and mentors, for community, and fir a bridge to freedom, rather than your typical cold financial transaction app.**
** Progressive Web App (PWA) design patterns. Basic familiarity with React or front-end component libraries**
** Big Pluses: if quite familiar with PayloadCMS and/or html/css coding, or You know a politically progressive owner of a UXtesting company whom you could convince for the cause to give us a fantastic UX testing deal. Or you are familiar with PayloadCMS, OR you have an activist-hearted friend who is a content manager familiar with PayloadCMS**
Duration
Total initial engagement: 3–4 months minimum (to get us to the point of being funded beyond current survival level);but hopefully available long term PT if we get sufficient major funding after getting traction
Month 1: Approximately 10-15 hours/week (if you’re fast, just the first two weeks)
Months 2–3: Approximately 7-10 hours/week ( maybe fewer if using AI-assisted workflow)
Our MVP does not need to be highly scalable: we're targeting a few thousand initial users for AAO.
Future Months: Depends on User Experience feedback and future funding
Compensation
This is a paid contract position with performance-based compensation:
Pay: Negotiable but results based. Besides a large backend that would double or triple (once we can demonstrate traction) what we now have available, we have from personal savings $4,000-5000 left for the designer to do 1) the workflow and related design needs for our second PWA, MAMA (Mutual aid for Mass Actions), the workflow for the WiseCourageLadder of Engagement tool, and to fix the remaining issues (which are approximately 5-8 for the MVP of AdoptAnOrganizer. However, after upcoming UI/UX testing, which we hope will start by Nov 15, that number could go higher. Some issues might turn out to be ones only the programmers can fix.
THere will be an immediate $2,000 additional bonus once we get 50 active ASPOs (aspiring organizers) and 40 housing or 40 angel ($500-750) donors, and similar or larger bonuses once we get 100 ASPOs using us, which should easily happen once we find one or two major large membership partners willing to include us under their jobs tabs.
FIRST RIGHT of Refusal for long-term well paid part-time paid employment if the platform gains traction, and therefore will be able to raise low to medium six figure funding, maybe even more considering the potential of MAMA
How to Apply. Email: Gary [at] GetCourageNow.org (website in development) Insert in Subject line: "Social Change" Designer, [Your City], and [ how we heard of you]
** A non-AI written cover letter explaining why this project motivates you, based on what you feel could be the game-changing potential of AdoptAnOrganizer and MAMA and the WiseCourage LOE.**
** In particular, why you feel (if you do) it could have far more positive impact –prevent more preventable suffering for more people (and most other creatures) –than any other do good project you’ve discovered, and why you prefer working for a high impact do-good startup in the first place, given the pay being far lower than commercial for profit concerns. The cover letter (your motivations) are key**
** Your CV or resume**
** Links to relevant portfolio work or design samples**
** Your phone and city in your signature and How Referred in the Subject line**
Please call us within 24 hours after sending your application to make sure we got it, Our number is on our website, along with our reviews (under About us). And we’ll try to get back to you within 24hrs
Send applications to: Gary@GetCourageNow.org and backup at GandhiBridges@PM.me
(NOTE: OUR WEBSITE IS IN DEVELOPMENT and need to update our current team, etc: but do check out the reviews, and we can provide press clips on our previous national award winning work from the NYT, WAPO, LA TImes et al