Democratic National Committee · 4 weeks ago
States Analytics Lead
The Democratic National Committee is seeking a States Analytics Lead to empower Democrats to win elections through data-driven campaigns. The role involves leading a team of analysts, managing strategic analytics projects, and collaborating with various teams to support campaign programs effectively.
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Responsibilities
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. You’ll be a strategic leader, manager, and coach as we build out this team and shape how we support campaign programs throughout 2026
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
Qualification
Required
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.)
Preferred
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
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
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Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee is the formal governing body for the United States Democratic Party.
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