About FiNC

A better way to choose our leaders.

Everybody already knows what’s wrong with their choices. What they can’t find is a better one.

Every candidate needs 3 things to win: money, access, and visibility. Big money, party gatekeepers, and media manipulation control all 3, so they decide who wins before anyone votes. They don’t take your vote. They take your options.

FiNC (the Future is Now Coalition) is putting together the better way. We connect the candidates corporate media skips with the people who’ll lift them:

• An independent podcast interviews an underdog, so corporate media isn’t the only one deciding who looks real
• A third party backs a candidate outside its own ranks, so party gatekeepers aren’t the only way in
• Our posts put underdogs in front of new audiences, so getting seen stops costing a war chest

None of this is new on its own. What’s new is a coalition doing it on purpose, with every movement, third party, and candidate under 1 umbrella. Nobody can afford to be seen alone. Together, everybody gets seen.

We don’t pick the winner. You do. And what we’re building will belong to citizens, 1 share each, so nobody can buy it.

Our work is the human side: outreach, PR, social, and video. The tech mostly exists already. It has never had a coalition behind it. Designed by FiNC. Built by the people who’ll own it.

We can’t change the rules yet, so we’re changing the game. Join our coalition to change how politics works. Forever.

IMPORTANT: This involves DELAYED COMPENSATION. Please read carefully

We don’t take investors or financing with strings attached, so nobody gets to buy a say in what we build. Instead, we are Crowd-Starting FiNC: building it together from the ground up.

We ask team members to contribute 15 to 20 hours per week during this phase, with compensation deferred until we are operational. That includes the Founder, who has not drawn a salary and will not until the team does.

This only works if you see it the way we do: building something now that pays off for everyone later.

Build this with us and own a piece of it. It’s our intention to offer every contributor who helps build FiNC an ownership stake in it.

We are an LLC today because we needed a legal home to start from. We are building toward something like a nonprofit cooperative, where the people who build the organization own it. In the meantime, we operate not for profit.

This model filters for people who believe in the mission enough to build it with us. It isn’t for everyone, and that’s okay.

Culture and Employment

A Better Way to Work, Too

• Neurodiversity and diversity of thought are strengths, so we build roles around how you actually work
• Servant leadership and shared ownership, so leads clear the way instead of guarding it
• Purpose over profit and value over hours, so a good week is measured by what moved, not how long you were online
• We reward authenticity, passion, and commitment, not conformity
• We support individual weaknesses, so the team’s strengths add up
• Ongoing role check-ins, so your role can grow as you do

From your first 2-way interview, you’ll see (and feel) how different we are.

Role Description:

Product Designer · No-Code (Softr & Airtable)

FiNC is looking for a Product Designer to own how the Digital Politics Hub looks and how people move through it.

Our product team already has the technical side covered. Our Product Manager runs structure, tasks, and sequencing. Our developer builds. What we do not have is someone whose whole job is deciding what good looks like, and then making it so.

The most important thing about this role

You would design in Softr, not for Softr.

This is not a role where you deliver mockups and hand them to someone else to build. You would work directly in Softr’s no-code builder: choosing blocks, setting layouts, adjusting spacing and type, restructuring navigation, and shipping the change yourself. Wireframe first if that is how you think, but the deliverable is the live page.

No traditional coding required.

What You’ll Own

Visual quality

• Make busy pages calm and readable through spacing, type, and hierarchy
• Hold the line on our brand palette and fonts so the Digital Politics Hub reads as 1 product instead of 12 separate pages
• Decide what “finished” looks like, because right now nobody owns that call

Navigation and structure

• Organize how pages relate so citizens can find what they came for
• Fewer dead ends, clearer labels, an obvious next step on every page
• Design the real paths: first visit, browse candidates, add your name, take an action

Accessibility

• We work directly with disability communities, so this is a gate, not a checklist
• Keyboard-only navigation end to end. Screen reader labels on every field. Real contrast
• WCAG 2.1 AA is our working benchmark

Build and iterate

• Connect Softr pages to Airtable views so lists, filters, and detail pages actually work
• Ship small improvements often instead of saving them up for a redesign
• Bonus if you are comfortable with light automations

How the Tech Team Works

Small: a Product Manager, a developer, and you. The team decides what we are building. You decide how it looks and how someone moves through it. You would work closely with our graphic designer and copywriters so the visuals and the language match.

Leading the team is a possibility, not a requirement. The seat above this one is open. Our Product Manager is running structure and sequencing well and has built a strong working rhythm with our developer, so nothing here is broken and nobody is waiting to be rescued. If you have led a small product team before and want to again, that is a great outcome and we would welcome it. If you would rather put your hours into the design work itself, that is equally fine. It is not what we are screening for.

The Honest Version of the Stack

The Digital Politics Hub today is a no-code prototype built on Softr and Airtable. It is a scaffold, not a foundation, and a proper rebuild comes later. That means real constraints: you work within what Softr’s blocks allow, and some things you would want to do are not possible yet. If that sounds frustrating rather than interesting, this is not the right seat.

You’re a Great Fit If You…

• Have 2 to 5+ years in UI, product, or web design, or a portfolio that shows the equivalent
• Have built real, working things in no-code tools: Softr, Webflow, Bubble, Glide, Framer. Softr and Airtable are a big plus
• Have a genuinely good eye. This role exists because we need taste we do not currently have
• Think in flows, not just single screens
• Can work with relational data: linked records, filters, views
• Ask good questions and take feedback well

Nice-to-Haves

• Accessibility experience, especially testing with real assistive tech
• Dashboards or directories built in Airtable, Softr, or similar
• Figma or Whimsical for quick wireframes, even rough ones
• Civic tech, community platforms, or mission-driven products
• Experience leading or mentoring a small product team. Useful here, but not required

We care less about credentials than about whether you can make something clear, calm, and usable.