2016 Postmortem

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(1,698 posts) Wed Jan 6, 2016, 07:33 AM Jan 2016

How The Hillary Clinton Campaign Built A Staff As Diverse As America

http://www.fastcompany.com/3055032/most-creative-people/how-the-hillary-clinton-campaign-built-a-staff-as-diverse-as-america
By Alyson Krueger
Excerpt:

Clinton’s campaign headquarters are located in Brooklyn Heights, a tony New York City neighborhood close to Brooklyn Bridge. The scene inside resembles a somewhat jumbled WeWork office, with slews of eager, diverse, busy people working intensely on bean bag chairs or cobbled-together standing desks, pausing occasionally for karaoke night or a round of air hockey. If Koloc’s goal was to fill the campaign with a racially, ethnically, and gender-diverse staff, at first glance it appears he has achieved it.

Each department boasts steals from impressive firms including IBM, General Assembly, Etsy, Yelp, Google, Gawker, Facebook, Kiva, and DreamWorks. The digital team has talent from the New York Times and the analytics team from New York University’s formidable think tank on housing policy. The number of people from within politics is striking—for being so low. Less than half of the analytics team and almost none of the tech team ever held a campaign position.

"It’s the most diverse and capable team I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve worked with some amazing engineers," says Deepa Subramaniam, a 32-year-old who serves as head of product, a role she held previously at Charity Water, where she built an online fundraising platform to raise money ($27.9 million in 2014) to deliver clean water to the developing world. Before that she was at Adobe, where she tackled projects like the Creative Cloud and the open web platform. "We have people from public sector, private sector, media companies, big startups, and much smaller startups," says Koloc. "We have folks from all different angles coming in, many of them taking pay cuts to work much longer hours."