[Hiring] Data Deputy Director @Progressive Turnout Project

Role Description

democracyFIRST is seeking an experienced Deputy Director for the 2026 cycle to assist with data operations to support a multi-state program to elect pro-democracy candidates for down ballot races that play a critical role in protecting the administration of our elections for the future. The role will help create and manage data tools and reporting processes that power the campaign’s organizing and voter contact programs. The Data Director will be responsible for ensuring all data is organized, accessible, and strategically utilized in elections. This position reports directly to the Executive Director, while working closely with the National Field Director. This is a full-time remote position. Given placement of staff across time zones, this employee must be available for work during 10:00am - 6:00pm ET hours with night and weekend availability as the cycle demands.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the campaign database, tracking data from across multiple platforms
• Work with large datasets using SQL, Python, BigQuery and other data management tools
• Assist with the creation of universes, track program progress, lead reporting and analysis
• Build and maintain automated and ad-hoc reports to evaluate organizing, volunteer recruitment, and voter contact programs
• Ensure data quality, maintain pipelines, and troubleshoot issues to guarantee smooth operations across programs
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Executive Director and National Organizing Director

Qualifications

• At least 2 cycles experience with Organizing Tools such as VAN, PDI, BigQuery as well as texting, dialer and relational tools
• Intermediate experience with languages and data tools like SQL, Python, and BigQuery; advanced experience preferred
• Experience managing large datasets and writing automations
• Ability to manage several tasks and projects concurrently and to prioritize work effectively
• Ability to communicate complex data concepts to a non-technical audience
• Experience working across departments to develop data-driven solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with voter file data, election results, statistical models, and/or polling data
• 1-2 cycles of progressive campaign experience, especially working with political data
• Experience automating and managing Google Sheets
• Previous experience with targeting for electoral, political, or advocacy campaigns, particularly for field, direct mail, and/or digital programs

Company Description

Founded in 2021, democracyFIRST is a cross-partisan and ideologically diverse project that aims to restore the political consensus on the central pro-democracy principles underpinning our electoral process. Our mission is to confront the rising anti-democracy movement in America and preserve the future of our democracy. Our electoral programming is designed to confront, isolate, and defeat the anti-democracy candidates and elected officials who pose the greatest threat of subverting our elections - those in positions that administer and certify our elections on a state level. democracyFIRST is an affiliated organization of Progressive Turnout Project.

Progressive Turnout Project (PTP) has a single mission: Rally Democrats to vote. Since our founding in 2015, we’ve supported 2,227 Democrats in competitive campaigns, raised more than $368 million from more than 2.4 million unique donors, and deployed 38,962 paid team members. These organizers helped make more than 190 million voter contact attempts at doors and through our innovative field programs.

democracyFIRST and PTP are committed to building a staff that reflects the diverse communities that make up our country and the progressive movement. PTP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is PTP’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote, and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to age, color, creed, disability, economic status, ethnic identity, gender identity, national origin race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veterans status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.