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Democratic National Committee · 2 months ago

Director of Data and Analytics

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$155K/yr - $155K/yr

5+ years exp

The Democratic National Committee is seeking a Director of Data and Analytics to oversee their data and analytics departments and contribute to the strategic vision of the organization. This role involves managing teams, delivering high-quality data products, and ensuring strategic alignment with various stakeholders to enhance campaign efficiency and impact.

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U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Strategic Oversight: You will provide high-level oversight for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the DNC’s core analytical and data infrastructure outputs. These products help campaigns across the country make better decisions and better understand their constituents, measure their initiatives, and expand their impact

People, Management, and Culture: You will manage the entire data department, which includes managing managers across Analytics, Data Science, and Analytics Engineering. You will be the champion for people development, coaching, hiring, onboarding, and performance management across the entire department. As a Director on the Tech team, we will look to you to advance a healthy, inclusive, and user-centric team culture while ensuring clear structure, accountability, and growth opportunities for all roles

Stakeholder Management: You will own key relationships, working with stakeholders internal (other Tech Team Leads, DNC department heads) and external (sister committees, vendors) to ensure strategic alignment. This includes relationship building, contract negotiation, and maintenance to ensure the DNC has the best data resources and partnerships to advance our mission

Qualification

Data strategyStakeholder managementSQL expertiseData ecosystem knowledgePeople developmentTechnical mentorshipCommunication skillsPython programmingETL pipelinesMachine learningPolitical data experience

Required

You have significant experience managing multiple technical contributors across a variety of levels, including technical mentorship, professional coaching and culture building

You have experience working with/for major Democratic organizations including committees, campaigns, state parties or aligned entities

You have a proven track record of successfully setting a strategic vision and achieving measurable outcomes through data products and services

You have experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments including the adoption of emerging and new technologies

You have strong experience with stakeholder management, including relationship building and strategic alignment

You are passionate about people development, including coaching, performance management, and building inclusive, high-performing team cultures

You are an expert SQL user, comfortable wrangling big data sets to extract meaning

You have a broad understanding of modern data ecosystems (e.g., cloud environments like GCP/BigQuery, data warehousing, BI tools, and data science methodologies) sufficient to oversee multiple technical leads

You have a deep understanding of how data can inform strategic program planning and are highly focused on translating business needs into data strategy

You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting complex technical and strategic plans to executive leadership and non-technical audiences

Have 5+ years in leadership and managing roles

Preferred

Have a strong understanding or experience with ETL pipelines and data transformation tools like dbt

Have led transitions around emerging machine learning and generative AI-driven approaches

Code comfortably in Python, R or another programming language, or can quickly learn new languages or tools to drive impact

Have experience in non-profit fundraising and/or modern marketing stacks and measurement

Have experience working with political data like state voter files, election results, or data on voter, volunteer, or donor engagement and/or the DNC's data and analytics tools

Have experience working with vendors including relationship management, technical validation and budgetary oversight