Sen. Ted Cruz waits with his staff members, including his campaign manager Jeff Roe, at a campaign rally at the Siena Community Center on December 17, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Getty Cruz campaign manager seeks Trump gig

Jeff Roe, a prominent Republican Party strategist who managed Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, has been seeking a job in the Trump administration – possibly as political director, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Roe, a hard-charging, Missouri-based operative who has also worked for a number of congressional Republicans, was spotted in Trump Tower on Wednesday. Several of his friends said that in recent weeks he had expressed serious interest in joining Trump’s team, and two sources close to the transition said that Roe had embarked on an aggressive push for the political director job.

Neither Roe nor a Trump spokesman responded to requests for comment.

Trump this week began to build out his political operation, announcing that Michigan GOP chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel and Bob Paduchik, an Ohio-based strategist, are his choices to lead the Republican National Committee. He has yet to fill the political director slot, though three transition aides said Bill Stepien, a former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, had emerged as the leading contender for it.

Whether Roe ultimately lands in the Trump White House or becomes a member of his political team remains an open question. He recently signed on to serve as the chief strategist for Ohio Republican Senate hopeful Josh Mandel, and had been seen as likely to play a role in Cruz’s 2018 reelection campaign.