Analytics Lead, Bluelabs
$105k
Data science & analytics firm
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Data science & analytics firm
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$105k
21-100 employees
Company mission
BlueLabs' mission is to help organizations improve the efficacy of their communications with individuals, fine-tune their strategy, identify opportunities, and measure outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- You have demonstrated experience leading other senior analysts on large unstructured projects
- You possess the technical acumen to autonomously lead projects, offering direction and support to team members when necessary
- You have 2+ years directly managing analysts or technical staff
- You are passionate about harnessing data-driven solutions to improve social outcomes
- You’re eager to continue to learn and contribute to mentoring others in the frontier of fundamental techniques in data management, analysis, and visualization
- Your professional experience using 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 some statistical background and 6+ 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)
- You have leadership competencies in the following: empathy, active listening, coaching/feedback, integrity, decisiveness, and problem solving
- You are effective in navigating and managing client relationships, solving problems, making connections, and implementing opportunities
What the job involves
- 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?
- 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 is both a project manager overseeing medium- to large-scale clients as well as a hands-ons contributor providing data management, report or calculator building, and memo or deck preparation or other analysis as needed on larger-scale projects
- Analytics Leads are principal managers, people leaders, and client-facing representatives on their accounts
- This position requires a mix of internal and external leadership, analysis, data management and presentation, and communication skills
- You’ll be responsible for hard analysis as well as putting together the data infrastructure, reports and calculators that will power our solutions and putting together the client-facing materials that summarizes those findings
- You’ll be providing team leadership, problem solving challenges, and responsible for ensuring we hit deadlines with insightful and actionable analysis
- Manage large projects from beginning to end, taking ownership of the work process and the end product
- Tackle broad, open-ended analysis questions with little guidance, such as "was this advertising campaign successful?" or "why did this candidate win her election?"
- Solve complicated and thorny technical problems to make our projects flow more easily
- Manage team members and support their growth and development
Our take
BlueLabs leverages big data to gain an understanding of and engagement with audiences, allowing its customers to launch more effective communications campaigns. The majority of its work initially came through political campaigns and social impact drives, though the company has expanded its activities into more commercial fields like brand perception and sales in the last few years.
BlueLabs has an interesting origin story, with the founding quartet all working in senior analytics roles for the Democratic Party during the 2012 presidential campaign, where Barrack Obama won a second term against Mitt Romney.
Though the jury is still out on the ethics of big data methods for political motivation - for instance, the Cambridge Analytica scandal regarding its use of social media data in influencing elections - this approach has proven to be extremely effective in persuading and activating audiences. There’s also little doubt that it can be used for great causes too, as shown by BlueLabs’ work with the likes of the UN Refugee Agency, and environmental organization The Sierra Club.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Company benefits
- Premier health insurance plan
- 401K matching
- Unlimited vacation
- Telecommuting options
- Pre-tax transportation options
- 14+ weeks paid parental leave
- Professional development & learning stipend
- Flexible working hours
- Employee Assistance Program
- Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
Company HQ
Northwest Washington, Washington, DC
Articles
Leadership
Elan Kriegel
(Co-founder)Previous Battleground States Analytics Director for the 'Obama for America' campaign in 2011-2012, and Chief Analytics Officer for the 'Hillary for America' campaign in 2015-2016.
Chris Wegrzyn
(Co-founder & Senior Advisor)Previous Director of Data Architecture for the Democratic National Committee. Current Fellow at Schmidt Futures.
Dan Porter
(Co-founder & Head of Data Science)Experience as Director of Modeling for the 'Obama for America' campaign in 2011-2012.
Erek Dyskant
(Co-founder & Civic Tech Partner)Previous Analytics Technical Lead for the 'Obama for America' campaign, and experience in consulting for Me! and International Medical Corps.
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