Salary
💰 $60,000 - $90,000 per year
About the role
- Designing and launching surveys that will be taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans
- Managing the fielding of multiple surveys simultaneously to ensure sufficient data collection on time and on budget
- Tracking timelines and priorities and liaising between data scientists, engineers, and client-facing stakeholders
- Supporting external outreach efforts, including presentations to clients, political partners, and other vendors and consultants
- Analyzing data to answer questions from political strategists and clients
- Building subject matter context and thinking critically about our data in order to discern real trends versus potential bugs to flag for our machine learning data scientists
- Contributing new ideas to the ways we analyze, interpret, and communicate our data
- Providing product feedback to engineers to improve our tools for internal and external usage
Requirements
- Have at least 1-2 years professional experience, including internships
- Comfortable with SQL and relational databases; can quickly orient to new datasets, perform exploratory analysis, spot data quality issues, and justify decisions about how to handle imperfect data
- Some background in R or python programming
- Strong oral and written communication skills, especially in a remote environment
- Enjoy spending as much time interacting with people as writing code
- Desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, machine learning data scientists, statisticians and political experts; excited to work with less-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in fast-paced environments turning around a high volume of relatively small projects
- Interested in and passionate about progressive politics; willing to engage with the wider progressive political ecosystem
- Solutions-oriented, strong attention to detail, creative thinker who isn’t daunted by open-ended research questions
- Kind person and team player who contributes to a warm working environment
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States