The Hired Guns are seeking a Principal, Data and Analytics for a red-hot (but blue-leaning) full-service digital strategy, data, and communications firm with offices in Washington, DC and NYC. If you’ve got the fire (and 10+ years of experience) to make sense of data from numerous industries and interests — with frequent dips into a progressive itinerary — come join this highly influential leader in the field.
The Nitty Gritty
The backstory on the organization and why they need to hire you!
Brands, cities, campaigns, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations all love working with this award-winning agency, which built its own proprietary software to monitor and measure campaigns. But to helm it, they need a Principal of Data and Analytics who can spearhead back-end political data management offerings to the clients. Using voter databases like Civis and Target Smart to drive digital marketing strategy, you’ll build and implement organization-wide processes like data pipelines in support of analytical integrations. You’ll also build dashboards for business insights across departments.
Why You?
How you’ll know if you’re a fit…
You’re politically savvy, with a realistic stance ranging from left-centrist to proud progressive, and are gleefully wonky wherever you are on the spectrum. You’ve put in management time, possibly under a title like Director of Analytics, in fundraising committees and politically-oriented online media agencies or market research firms with political clients.
You definitely know your way around a voter database, and right now you’re wondering if it’s time to switch gears from this senatorial or presidential campaign you’re working on.
You offer a wise point of view when it comes to using digital analytics in political campaigns, but you manage your teams by supporting their own initiatives. Your leadership skills define your work, but they’re ideally supported by your working knowledge of programming tools such as Python and Scala. SQL and Tableau would also be choice assets. The better to build tools for automation and optimization with!
Tell Me About a Time When …
The interview questions you need to rock to score a “swipe right”…
- Describe a time you moved the needle in a political campaign by providing data-driven insights to a digital marketing organization.
- How would you leverage political databases like Civis and Voter Files to drive digital strategy?
- What are your prime deliverables in service to clients or stakeholders?
The Inside Skinny
Why you should quit your job right now and join this organization!
You’ve put your skills to work for individual causes, or individuals with many causes. You know what the numbers say, and they indicate this is a company with a much higher success rate than almost anywhere you could work — and for the worthiest projects.
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