LOCATION
Los Angeles or a remote candidate who can travel to Los Angeles every 2-4 months
VOTETRIPLING.ORG
We design and quickly mainstream field-tested voter engagement innovations to help Democrats win. The principal asset that enables us to fulfill this mission is our talented, interdisciplinary team of voter engagement, political, research, design, fundraising, legal, and strategy experts.
Our organization was born in the wake of the 2016 election as a grassroots, volunteer-led initiative. Over the next four years, our work took off and we became a team of 30 full-time staff in 2020. From 2016 to 2020 our work focused singularly on designing and quickly mainstreaming field-tested voter engagement innovations that spark Democratic non-activists to mobilize their friends to vote. We succeeded in developing and quickly mainstreaming a suite of elegant, user-friendly and non-proprietary innovations that RCTs suggest yielded over 100,000 net Democratic votes in 2020 swing states. As one example, we designed and quickly mainstreamed ‘polling place vote tripling’. Dozens of major partners used this innovation in 2020, including the Biden-Harris campaign, ultimately resulting in 94,000 canvasser-hours of polling place vote tripling that produced 1,100,000 relational conversations (for context, that’s 5x the 200,000 relational conversations the Biden campaign’s relational app produced). This innovation was featured in The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Our 2016-2020 work serves as a compelling ‘proof of concept’ that our PAC fills a clear need within the progressive movement. Moving forward, our 15-person Los Angeles-based team is working on problems beyond non-activist friend-to-friend voter turnout. The exact problem areas we will work on from 2021-2024 remain to-be-determined (more on this below), but will likely include persuasion, down-ballot drop-off, and enhanced relational voter engagement tactics. To reflect our team’s broader focus, in the fall of 2021 our organization may re-brand from VoteTripling.org to a new name that reflects our aspiration to serve as the progressive movement's behavioral innovation hub. We will consider our 2021-2024 work to be a success if we design and mainstream one or more voter engagement innovations so widely that our work yields hundreds of thousands of net Democratic votes in the 2024 presidential election.
JOB DESCRIPTION
This role will be the second key hire on our Research Team. This individual will be a crucial resource to the Director of Research as they help get the team off the ground, and will serve as a thought partner and leader to the organization.
Our Senior Research Lead: Data and Evaluation will need (i) to understand how our research contributes to organizational goals and strategy, and how findings from our research can be applied in the real world, independently and in partnership with other organizations, and (ii) a background in statistical methods and evaluation, working to both strategically advance our organization and serve as one of our leading researchers. A successful candidate will have a passion for clarity, be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, be able to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment and be driven by a desire to innovate. Given the complex nature of the questions we are working on, the ideal candidate will be relentlessly curious and be able to communicate complex research data in a way that is digestible and actionable to people who know nothing about research.
As a leader in our Research Team, you will be responsible for (i) designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative research, (ii) designing and implementing experiments and evaluating results and (iii) supporting programmatic team data needs as they arise (such as data cleaning and visualization for our partner organizations). You will have a key seat at the table in driving our Research Team’s strategy. You’ll report to our Director of Research but work closely with department heads across the organization.
We are dedicated to creating an organization that reflects the diversity of the country we serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and others who are underrepresented in campaigns to apply.
**Please note that due to the nature of our work we are unable to hire any individuals who aren’t US Citizens or who don’t currently have green cards.**