Senior Director of Analytics/Head of Analytics

Movement Labs is a movement incubator and the leading peer-to-peer text political consultancy supporting progressives and grassroots activists nationwide. Our clients span both establishment and movement efforts, from senior Democratic Congressional leadership to Black Lives Matter. We innovate, test, and implement strategies for resisting the worst of the Trump agenda and getting Democrats elected up and down the ballot. Your work will help mobilize resistance to the Trump Administration and recruit thousands of candidates for 100,000 elections that go uncontested every year.

Movement Labs is fast-paced and high-performing, and the environment evolves rapidly. We are adaptable, nimble, and shift quickly as needed to meet the moment. We are looking for candidates that thrive in this type of environment.

We seek a Senior Director or Head of Analytics, depending on experience, to lead work on our Experiments Team.

Our ideal candidate is a fast-mover and knows how to turn data into action. They love digging into tough questions and coming up with answers that drive real change. Meticulous and committed to rigor, our person is relentless about getting the right answer.

As Senior Director or Head of Analytics, you’ll solve some of the highest-priority questions in the progressive research community while working alongside the most ambitious research team in the space. You’ll play a pivotal role in winning elections up and down the ballot and fighting fascism. Every day, you’ll wake up ready to face new puzzles and make an impact.

This role is fully remote.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead in-depth observational analyses of voter file data, survey responses, and other relevant datasets to extract actionable insights and inform strategic decisions.
• Build and validate predictive models to enhance the targeting of voter contact programs, optimizing resource allocation and maximizing outreach effectiveness.
• Perform thorough assessments of data quality and data acquisition sources, identifying optimal data sources for accomplishing program goals.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of alternative targeting approaches using existing data, proposing data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement methodologies to assess heterogeneous treatment effects, providing nuanced insights into the impact of interventions across different voter segments.
• Visualize and present results of analyses to lay audiences
• Collaborate with the Experiments team to design and execute randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aimed at netting Democratic votes and stopping fascism.

Requirements:

• At least five years of experience with the responsibilities described.
• Exceptional project management skills, with a proven ability to manage complex analytical projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results
• Experience aligning analyses with strategic objectives, using data-driven insights to inform and influence programmatic decisions and long-term planning
• Experience with a variety of non-randomized methods for causal inference including matching
• Proficiency in building predictive models, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, and evaluation
• Expertise and experience in voter file data
• Experience building heterogeneous treatment effect models is a plus
• Experience designing, executing, and analyzing randomized controlled trials is a plus
• Preferred programming languages: R and SQL