Stand Together

Lead front-end development, design system ownership, API integration, and operational reliability for web applications. | 7+ years full-stack experience with front-end focus, mentoring skills, proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, API design, AWS services, CI/CD, and security best practices. | Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Front-End Focused) on our Enterprise IT team, you will own the design implementation for the consumer-facing web applications that serve as the front door to Stand Together's philanthropic community. You will build and maintain a Next.js/React TypeScript monorepo, implement production-grade UX and performance, integrate with our OpenAPI backend and headless CMS, and ship via CI/CD to AWS Amplify. The role combines deep front-end engineering, design-system ownership, and operational responsibility for client-side reliability and performance. How You Will Contribute • Lead implementation of Next.js (App Router) features, including SSR, SSG, ISR, server components, and image optimization across our high-visibility web properties. • Design, extend, and maintain a reusable component library and Storybook, serving as the team's authority on design system standards and front-end architecture. • Integrate client applications with OpenAPI backends and secure authentication flows (JWT/OIDC), ensuring reliability and correctness across auth boundaries. • Ensure accessibility, test coverage (unit, integration, and e2e), and high performance standards — with Lighthouse and Web Vitals. • Own CI/CD builds, deployments, and environment configuration for AWS Amplify; collaborate on CDN caching and image transform pipelines. • Troubleshoot production issues, instrument front-end monitoring, and maintain runbooks and on-call readiness for client-side reliability. • Contribute to back-end tasks as needed, working closely with the broader engineering team across a Next.js/React TypeScript monorepo. • Mentor engineers on front-end best practices, design system conventions, and performance engineering. What You Will Bring • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. • 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear front-end focus and a portfolio of production-grade work. • Experience mentoring software engineers. • Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills. • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP. • Strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS. • Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures. • Hands-on experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns. • Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning). • Experience with Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR). • Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC. • Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt). • CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments. • Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting. • Experience with security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. • Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards. • Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks. • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. Standout Candidates Will Bring • Experience with Contentful CMS, Drupal, and WordPress in headless or hybrid configurations. • Familiarity with Turborepo, pnpm, monorepo patterns, Storybook, and design systems at scale. • Zod/schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience. • Hands-on experience with CloudPosse modules and terragrunt layout patterns. • Zod/schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience. • Performance tuning experience for Node.js applications and MongoDB, including caching strategy design. • Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management. • Knowledge of Checkov, Terraform security scanning, and Terraform CI checks. What We Offer • Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. • A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. • Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop, and apply their unique talents. • Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive. Pay Transparency For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $140,000 – $170,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonuses or variable compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee’s overall contribution to the organization. We believe incentives matter. Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, compensation may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations. Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation. We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Lead the operating system and business operations of the Creative team ensuring financial discipline, workflows, vendor management, and cross-functional coordination. | Requires executive-level experience in creative operations, strong understanding of creative team workflows, vendor and budget management, and ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization. | Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. The Managing Director, Creative Business Operations serves as the senior executive responsible for the operating system of the Creative team. This role ensures the team has the financial discipline, resourcing, workflows, documentation, reporting, vendor management, and organizational relationships required to operate as a high-performing creative center of excellence. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Content & Creative, this role functions as a strategic operator that bridges our Creative Services, Brand Publishing and Media Partnerships teams with our partners in Marketing Strategy, Events, Communications, Finance, and other enterprise functions. The Creative Business Operations leader drives clarity and accountability across these teams, always looking for the next-best opportunity for value creation and how they can drive on it. This leader will oversee the day-to-day business operations of the Creative team at an executive level, including vendor contracts, vendor partnerships, budget pacing, productivity reporting, operational planning, team workflows, and cross-functional coordination. The ideal candidate is someone who can move seamlessly from strategy to execution. They must exercise sound business judgment, lead through influence, manage ambiguity, and foster a culture of collaboration, while providing executive-level visibility into the Creative team’s function. This role requires someone who understands how creative teams operate, how to thrive within a matrixed organization, and how to build the infrastructure that enables creative talent to do their best work. How You Will Contribute • Serve as the senior business operations leader for the Creative team, owning the systems, workflows, and relationships that enable the department to function efficiently and effectively, both internally and across the organization. • Partner with leadership to operationalize creative plans, manage follow-through, and ensure resources are allocated in line with priorities. • Develop reports on resource allocation and capacity planning, giving leadership clear visibility into the Creative team’s priorities, how resources are being used, and where capacity is constrained. Audit the systems in which these data are tracked, ensuring their accuracy and utility. • Support insource/outsource decisions by assessing workload, opportunity cost, and long-term strategic value. • Oversee creative contracts and vendor engagements. Manage vendor relationships, ensuring clear accountability, clarity on spending and pacing, and alignment with strategic priorities (in coordination with Finance, Vendor Management, and Vendor Strategy). • Build reports that show where Creative dollars are being spent, what value is being created, where tradeoffs exist, and where leadership decisions are needed. • Prepare formal recommendations and decision-making frameworks for creative investments in partnership with team leadership. • Identify learning opportunities by driving on after-actions and soliciting stakeholder feedback. Ensure insights carry through across projects and workstreams. Similarly, identify process gaps, unclear ownership, and other constraints; working across the whole Marketing & Communications team to identify and implement solutions. • Maintain essential documentation, including workflows, decision records, vendor information, reporting, and financial tracking. • Leverage AI and other tools to create efficiencies without sacrificing quality. What You Will Bring • Executive-level experience in creative operations. Marketing operations, chief of staff, or similar operational leadership roles are a plus. • Strong understanding of how creative, content, production, design, marketing, or agency teams operate. • Demonstrated ability to build operating systems, processes, and reports that drive executive level decision-making. • Experience managing or overseeing large vendor relationships, complex contracts, budgets, and financial planning processes. • Proven ability to lead through influence, drive accountability, resolve conflict, and build trust across teams with different priorities and working styles. • Superior writing skills and an ability to write a logically sound business case. • Strong analytical judgment and systems thinking. • Strong executive presence, judgment, and communication skills. An ability to distill the essential from the complex while advising senior leaders. • Practical knowledge of emerging AI capabilities. • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. What We Offer • Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. • A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. • Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents. • Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive. For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $185,000-$225,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus or variable compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee’s overall contribution to the organization. We believe incentives matter. Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, compensation may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations. Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation. We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.

Manage calendars, provide administrative and event support, coordinate projects, prepare meetings, and improve administrative processes for multiple principals. | 5+ years of professional support experience, high-volume scheduling, strong organizational skills, confidentiality, MS Office proficiency, and preferably expense reporting software and project management experience. | Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. We are seeking an Executive Assistant to support multiple principals leading our catalyst and place-based work at the Stand Together Foundation. As an integral part of the Stand Together philanthropic community, the Stand Together Foundation is committed to fostering strong and safe communities where people are known and empower one another to overcome barriers in a culture of contribution and mutual benefit. In this role, you will take pride as a valued business partner who understands your leader's business portfolio. As a strategic thinker, you connect task management to organizational priorities with a high degree of confidentiality, sense of urgency, and customer focus. You will identify and anticipate needs and know that success or failure is determined by thoughtfulness and ability to execute with excellence. You enjoy being part of a team that supports one another and finds fulfillment by helping others achieve success. How You Will Contribute • Provide calendar management. With a high level of attention to detail, prioritize a high volume of inquiries and requests while troubleshooting conflicts for key leaders and the broader team. Make judgements on time and recommendations grounded in strategic priorities and with a win-win mentality to ensure smooth day-to-day engagements. • Provide general administrative support. Provide light event support, ad-hoc project coordination, as well as general admin related tasks such as reconciling receipts and executing expense reports on behalf of the leaders. • Own and contribute to team and organizational projects and operational improvements as needed. Proactively seek, share, and apply knowledge to spot opportunities and deliver innovative, entrepreneurial solutions in fast-paced environments with limited direction. • Meeting preparation and participation. Assemble meeting agendas, record meeting minutes and notes, and oversee A/V needs and action items. • Identify areas to increase efficiency and innovate to improve administrative processes. Seek opportunities to help the administrative team support the organization’s goals more effectively. Identify, learn, and teach new tools or techniques to elevate the level of support and partnership the team gives. What You Will Bring • 5+ years of professional experience in a support or administrative capacity • Experience in a high volume scheduling environment, strongly preferred • Astute attention to detail and drive to take initiative • Track record of follow-up and follow-through; high degree of reliability • Extremely organized, self-disciplined, and professional in demeanor • High degree of confidentiality, sound judgment, ability to think on your feet and problem solve while maintaining composure • Articulate and concise oral and written communication skills • Proficient in MS Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. Standout Candidates Will Bring • Proficiency with expense reporting software, such as Concur • Project Management experience What We Offer • Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. • A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. • Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents. • Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive. Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation. We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.

Assist with research and outreach activities related to budget and tax reform, including drafting blog posts, issue briefs, and op-eds. | Interest in public policy, attention to detail, analytical, research, and writing skills, and availability for virtual and in-person program sessions. | The Koch Internship Program (KIP) is a paid, 12-week experiential learning program run by Stand Together Fellowships that offers meaningful work experience at non-profits all over the United States tackling some of our nation's most pressing challenges. Eligible candidates will be geographically located within the U.S. and authorized to work in the U.S. through the duration of the program. Throughout your internship, you will gain meaningful professional experience at a partner organization and participate in professional development built around a 2-day, in-person summit hosted by Stand Together Fellowships at Stand Together's Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, supported by virtual programming that takes place every other Thursday between 1- 3:30 pm ET. Interns will receive either a $7,500 or $5,500 stipend from Stand Together Fellowships depending on whether they are participating full-time (40 hours/week) or part-time (24 hours/week). The programming provided by Stand Together Fellowships focuses on three objectives: 1. understanding the foundational principles of a free society such as individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and the rule of law; 2. learning the Stand Together community's vision for change and how a principled approach to problem solving can help address society's biggest challenges; and 3. presenting opportunities and pathways to build a career that advances liberty and free society. Successful candidates will interview with both our non-profit partner organizations and Stand Together Fellowships staff, so we strongly encourage you to apply in advance! Please note that all Koch Internship Program interns MUST be available every other Thursday (Jan. 22, Feb. 12, Feb. 26, March 12, March 26, and April 9) from 1-3:30 PM ET for virtual professional development training AND the in-person summit at Stand Together's Headquarters in Arlington, VA Feb. 6-Feb. 7. About National Taxpayers Union Foundation National Taxpayers Union Foundation is a non-partisan research and education organization dedicated to showing Americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. Through data collection, analysis, and commentary, we empower citizens to engage in the critical policy debates of our time and hold elected officials accountable. To educate our target audiences, we perform incisive research and analysis on a wide range of policy issues with a particular focus on tax, technology, interstate commerce, legislative scoring, and trade. We also have a newly launched public interest litigation project that has extended our work into the judicial sphere. About the Role The Associate Policy Analyst Intern will assist with Foundation research and outreach activities related to budget and tax reform. Responsibilities include tracking and responding to policy proposals in the form of blog posts, issue briefs, and op-ed drafting. This role is open to remote or onsite candidates. Qualified candidates should have an interest in public policy, attention to detail, and analytical, research, and writing skills. • *Qualified candidates must submit a cover letter detailing their interest in the position and NTUF’s mission and may include this in the "Additional Information" field seen after clicking the "Apply for this Job" button.** Candidates may also be asked to engage with NTUF's other projects, including: • The Taxpayers Budget Office, which seeks to provide taxpayers with a more accurate budgetary scorekeeper that is less influenced by budget gimmicks • The Interstate Commerce Initiative, where NTUF pushes back against the growing trend of states seeking to tax and regulate outside their borders, thereby disrupting interstate commerce, and • The Free Trade Initiative, which aims to advocate for the lowering of trade barriers and to educate Americans about the benefits that trade provides to the economy. Stand Together Fellowships believes that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. Our admissions office treats all program participants and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

Assist with foundation research and outreach, track and respond to policy proposals, participate in virtual programming, and attend an in-person summit. | Candidates must be U.S.-based with interest in public policy, strong research and writing skills, and submit a cover letter. | Description: • Assist with Foundation research and outreach activities related to budget and tax reform. • Track and respond to policy proposals in the form of blog posts, issue briefs, and op-ed drafting. • Participate in virtual professional development programming every other Thursday between 1-3:30 PM ET. • Attend a 2-day, in-person summit at Stand Together's Headquarters in Arlington, VA Feb. 6-Feb. 7. • Interview with non-profit partner organizations and Stand Together Fellowships staff. Requirements: • Eligible candidates will be geographically located within the U.S. and authorized to work in the U.S. through the duration of the program. • Qualified candidates should have an interest in public policy, attention to detail, and analytical, research, and writing skills. • Qualified candidates must submit a cover letter detailing their interest in the position and NTUF’s mission. Benefits: • Interns will receive either a $7,500 or $5,500 stipend from Stand Together Fellowships depending on whether they are participating full-time (40 hours/week) or part-time (24 hours/week).