About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data.

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, political campaigns, and businesses. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the Team

The Strategic Analytics Team at BlueLabs drives high quality, innovative research and analysis across BlueLabs’ client sectors, including commercial, political, and non-profit clients, to inform data-driven decisions and strategy. Team members analyze and interpret data, provide strategic program insight, drive innovation across sectors, and collaborate closely with both our client and technical teams.

Our team is often called to answer questions like:

• What are the meaningful messaging takeaways from a poll of industry elites for a major corporation to consider in their paid communication?
• How should a movie studio structure their marketing based on who a likely movie goer is?
• What political trends should a campaign be aware of, and what are the different pathways to victory?
• How do we present our models, calculators, and reports, so our partners get the information they need?

Tools of the Trade

• We work closely with our data science team, so you’ll need an understanding of statistical concepts, be able to interpret results and explain them to non-analysts
• We use big data sets so you will need to be comfortable with tools to access information and analyze that information such as SQL and some statistical and/or spreadsheet software
• We use an array of business intelligence tools to visualize our findings.  Members of our team have different strengths such as GIS or Tableau -- so we look for some  experience using such tools
• We’re only successful if we can communicate our findings; writing skills, PowerPoint, Keynote and other tools of the consultant toolbox will help you succeed in this job

About the Role

As part of the Insights at BlueLabs, you’ll be working with a group of analysts and data scientists who work across BlueLabs’ client sectors, including commercial, political, and non-profit clients, to inform data-driven decisions and strategy.

This position requires a mix of analysis and data management as well as client presentation and communication. You’ll be responsible for hard analysis as well as putting together the data infrastructure, reports, and calculators that will power our solutions as well as creating the client-facing materials that summarize those findings.

Analysts at BlueLabs are the ones with the best understanding of the nuances of a client’s data and our solutions. They can execute on the perfect solution but can also discover the answer that gets us 95% of the way there is a quicker and more efficient way.

Some of our work is templated, but our team excels when they come up with creative solutions to the problems. This will require creating new calculators or analyzing existing outputs in a new light.

Some examples of projects you might work on:

• Analyze polling data to discover trends and insights and then create a report that clearly communicates your findings
• Build crosstabs that detail the makeup of an advertising audience, target universe, or group of survey respondents
• Present your findings to clients and other stakeholders who may be made up of non-technical and/or highly technical people.
• Mentor analysts or fellows and support their growth and development

Such other reasonable tasks as may be assigned by management.

What we are seeking

• You are passionate about harnessing data-driven solutions to improve social outcomes
• You’re eager to learn techniques in data management, analysis, and visualization
• You can recognize patterns and are careful to check assumptions--whether they are your own or someone else’s
• You have excellent attention to detail and a keen eye for design
• Your experience manipulating data to identify clear insights allows you to be able to conduct data analysis even on tight deadlines, where the problem is unstructured, or the guidance is open ended
• You likely have at least a bachelor’s degree in a related field with a statistical background or 2+ years of experience analyzing data and building reports
• You’ve created reports and worked with data visualization and business intelligence tools
• You’ve created maps with GIS data and used software such as QGIS or ArcGIS
• You have experience with programming languages such as Python and SQL
• You have worked with spreadsheet and presentation software (Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Keynote)

What Recruitment Looks Like:

We expect to onboard this position in December 2022. The successful candidate will complete up to three interviews and a technical assessment (HR phone call, team member interview, and panel interview). During the interview process, you will be asked questions to describe your background and experience relevant to the position. This may include providing examples of projects you worked on, tools or applications you've used, and knowledge you have applied.  We often look for explanations of "how or why" so it's helpful to have details ready.

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
• Pre-tax transportation options for commuting to our office in Washington, DC
• Lunches and snacks
• And more! 

The salary for this position is $80,000 annually.

While we have an office in Washington, DC, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.  BlueLabs participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law (Link to external DOL site)