Priorities USA is a progressive advocacy organization focused on promoting the Biden-Harris agenda, ensuring Democratic victories in 2024, and supporting and improving the progressive movements’ use of digital advertising. We believe in an economy that provides real opportunity for all families to get ahead, and to protect the fundamental, democratic ideal of equality for all Americans – regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. 

As an Analytics Associate at Priorities, your primary responsibility will be to support Competitive Media Tracking by developing and maintaining a data infrastructure, analyzing large datasets, and producing regular reports that inform digital strategy. You will be part of a small team that thinks about the big picture, is constantly looking for ways to improve our work, and helps tell a story about what is going on in the 2024 election. We are looking for someone who is eager to learn and excited about solving unique problems. This position is on the Analytics team, and reports to the Associate Director of Product. This position will have the option of being remote or working out of Washington, DC where we have an office, with occasional travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Support Priorities’ partner organizations by providing analysis, reports, and visuals that explain the competitive media landscape. This may also involve interpreting data and providing strategic support. 
• Maintain and build queries and scripts necessary to produce reports quickly and efficiently. 
• Hand coding and categorizing data so that it is standardized and usable in a large dataset. 
• Work collaboratively with a team to maintain and improve Priorities USA’s competitive tracking toolset and the data pipelines that build it.
• Support the analytics team as needed. 

Qualifications

• Dedicated to progressive causes.
• Experience communicating with diverse groups, working with a multicultural workforce, and bringing a sensitivity and appreciation of cultural differences.
• Experience using data and numbers to formulate insights, preferably within relational databases. 
• Experience writing memos and creating presentations that communicate data in a clean and easy to understand manner.
• Experience with R or Python. 
• Experience with SQL.
• Keen attention to detail with an understanding of how to find and fix errors in code and data. 
• Creative thinker and problem solver.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understands political campaigns and has some political background (volunteering, for example). Experience working with Congressional campaigns strongly preferred.
• Curiosity and passion for digital strategy, or past experience in digital advertising. 
• Experience with Github and version-controlling code across workflows and team members. 
• Experience with Civis Platform. 
• Experience using ggplot and/or interest in crafting great data visualization. 
• Interest in learning more about programming, data science, data engineering, or front-end web app development.

$70,000 - $80,000 a year

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applications should include a resume. The hiring process for selected candidates will consist of a phone screen, at-home exercise (compensated), set of final round interviews, reference checks, and an applicant vet. Most processes will occur over 3-4 weeks with a target start date in January. 

This is a cycle based position, ending at the end of 2024.