[Hiring] States Analytics Lead @Democratic National Committee

Role Description

The Democratic National Committee’s Tech Team is seeking a States Analytics Lead to support our ongoing mission of empowering Democrats up and down the ballot to win more elections by running effective, data-driven campaigns.

In this role, you will be a people and technical lead. You will be responsible for coaching and developing the states analytics team and managing strategic analytics projects to completion. You’ll be part of the Data team and report into our Analytics Lead.

In this position you will…

• Lead a team of Analysts working to support coordinated campaigns across the country, as well as the DNC’s national organizing efforts and voter registration program.
• Work closely with the DNC’s Organizing team to develop a reporting roadmap for the DNC’s states and voter registration programs; work with Analysts to develop and maintain these reports over the course of the cycle.
• Work with Analysts to communicate national expectations on topics such as voter contact universes; work with the Organizing team to hold state Data teams accountable to those expectations, including creating scalable systems and documentation for evaluation.
• Lead communication of regular updates from the states analytics team internally during cross-departmental DNC meetings, as well as externally with sister committees, coordinated campaigns, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other leaders across the DNC Data & Tech Teams; identify opportunities to build sustainable infrastructure and efficiently address shared challenges.

Qualifications

• You have at least two cycles of experience working on a large scale statewide coordinated campaign or similar, and at least one cycle of experience as a Coordinated Data Director.
• You’ve managed analytics or equivalent data humans, including technical mentorship, professional coaching and culture building; bonus points if you’ve managed a distributed team and are comfortable collaborating and coordinating work happening around the country.
• You have experience working collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders; you are comfortable working across teams with a variety of experiences – balancing input from multiple stakeholders, prioritizing among competing priorities, and building consensus around the outputs of your work.
• You’re impact-oriented and understand the role data can play in strategic program planning; you think of analysis through the lens of the decisions it will inform, and are deeply focused on asking the right questions before you dive into the weeds of any particular analysis.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills, and experience explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You have a deep familiarity with political data like state voter files, election results, or voter contact data, and fluency in helping campaign leadership understand how to leverage this data to run effective programs; experience working with DNC tools such as Votebuilder, Phoenix, Mobilize, and Scale to Win is a bonus.
• You have strong technical skills in data analysis and visualization; You are an expert SQL user, comfortable wrangling big data sets to extract meaning. You’re experienced telling stories with data using tools like Google Data Studio, Tableau, Periscope, or Looker.
• You have experience doing voter outreach or community organizing, either professionally or as a volunteer – bonus points if you’ve knocked doors, made phone calls, sent text messages, or organized your own friends and family to vote.
• You have worked in modern cloud data environments (GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt, etc.).

Requirements

• You may also have a strong understanding or experience with ETL pipelines and data transformation tools like dbt.
• Code comfortably in Python, R, or another programming language, or be able to quickly learn new languages or tools to drive impact.
• Have experience working with vendors including relationship management, technical validation and budgetary oversight.

Salary

The salary for the States Analytics Lead position is $114,000 on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications. This position is not eligible for overtime wages. This is a full-time, exempt position, that may require work on weekends.

Benefits

• Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave.
• Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee.
• Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase.
• Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan.
• Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents.