Working at Optimize
Join a team of passionate people - and help define the future of political operations.
“I love working with our team to find and implement creative and lasting solutions to challenges we have seen plague progressive organizations throughout our careers.”
- Gabie Hart, Senior Account Executive
Our Values
Our values drive us forward and bring us closer every day. We refer to them as the Optim-I’s:
Integrity • Inclusivity • Integration • Iteration • Intentionality
Benefits
Optimize offers benefits to our employees beyond their base salary. Our aim is to give our team members the ability to manage their health, wealth, and well-being - because when we take care of our employees, they’ll take better care of our clients.
Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance: Optimize provides health, vision, and dental insurance plans to all full-time employees starting the the month after the employee’s first day. Optimize pays 80% of our employee’s monthly premiums and 40% for dependents.
401k with Matching: Optimize provides employees who have been with us for at least one year a 401k plan with options to open a traditional 401k and a Roth 401k. We want our employees to have financial freedom, so we incentivize contributions to these accounts with a match of up to 4% of an employee’s salary. Employees are free to contribute as much as they want to these accounts.
14 Paid Holidays: Optimize employees have 14 paid holidays. We also allow employees to take time off for special or religious holidays that are not observed by the entire company.
24 Days of PTO: Optimize employees receive 24 days of paid time off (PTO) each year, accumulating one day per pay period (two days per month). We believe in employee freedom and do not want to police their usage of their time off, so we have a single PTO bank that can be used for sick or vacation days - no confirmation of an illness required. Employees do not have to use PTO for anything less than a full day off.
Cool Down Week: To avoid burnout, employees who are hired prior to April 1 of each year are eligible to take off one week (five consecutive business days) with pay between May 1 and August 31. This time off is given to our longer-term employees to ensure we all unplug for an extended period of time before our busy season begins. These five days do not count against the employee's PTO bank.
All-Remote. Always.
Optimize has been all-remote since Day 1 because it produces better results for our clients and allows our employees to live the lives they choose, regardless of physical location.
“With a fully-remote environment and generous paid time off policies, Optimize allows me to meet my personal goals and obligations while collaborating with a great team to build strong operational foundations for the progressive groups we work with.”
- Charlie Espino, People Talent & Culture Manager
Equal Employment Opportunity for All
Optimize was founded to create a better, more prosperous world for all people. We work toward this goal by elevating the work of our clients through superior operations. The progressive coalition is large and diverse, our activists and staff bring different perspectives and experiences that better our movement and this country. Every person who advocates for a better, more inclusive America is valuable to our movement. We believe this firmly and we run our company by that standard.
Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our clients, their volunteers, and their voters, but we also strive for the same in our own team members. At Optimize, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of actual or perceived race, gender, gender identity or expression, physical appearance, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability (seen or unseen, temporary or permanent), sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic that makes someone unique and all those protected by federal, state, or local laws.
In short - all are welcome here.