Echelon Insights · 1 week ago
Data Team Roles
Alexandria, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid, Senior LevelEchelon Insights is a right-of-center decision strategy firm that blends innovative survey research techniques with data science and digital analytics to help clients succeed. The Data Team is responsible for quantitative research, data science, and voter modeling, focusing on building predictive models and enhancing the efficiency of analysis workflows.
Market Research
Responsibilities
Helping to build and maintain our database architecture, including a continuously-updated national voter file
Build predictive models of voter and consumer behavior, including candidate and party preference, issue support, persuadability, and turnout
Advocate for and implement outside-the-box approaches to enhance the predictiveness of our models based on hypotheses you’ve independently developed
Build and maintain tooling to automate analysis workflows for both data and research projects, from automated deliverable creation, modeling, data quality assurance, and AI analysis of survey responses. Proactively suggest and build new solutions to drive efficiency and speed-to-insight across the organization. Use a combination of engineering skills and AI development tools to quickly build, deploy, and refine our analytical tools
Produce advanced statistical analysis deliverables including cluster analysis, persuasion/switch models, and outputs based on more complex or experimental survey methods
More broadly, help us re-imagine everything about our existing platforms and build the next generation of AI-enabled survey research and analysis. Be ready to be a thought- and do-partner in revolutionizing an industry
Process raw survey data into standardized formats for analysis across platforms
Develop and execute weighting plans, automated weighting systems, and
Produce frequency tables, crosstabs, and statistical significance testing outputs
Maintain combined survey files integrating multiple waves and data sources for longitudinal analysis
Reconcile and append voter-file variables and other external data
Develop fielding and pacing strategies to ensure balanced quota fill and high-quality response collection
Design and implement complex demographic quota structures, including strategies for hard-to-reach groups
Apply multiple safeguards to ensure the highest level of survey data quality
Coordinate reconciliation with vendors to ensure accuracy in billing and disposition data
Qualification
Required
Demonstrates extreme attention to detail. Total accuracy in your work isn't just about checking a box, it's a point of personal pride
You are intensely intellectually curious, both about your day-to-day work and topics further afield. Others are always learning from you
You have good judgment and strong intuition. You're able to balance a data-driven, quantitative mindset with a qualitative understanding of real-world client goals and design deliverables that seamlessly blend the two
You have a strong interest in politics and public policy. You don't need to be a political operative to work here, but you should have a keen awareness of the broader ecosystem Echelon Insights operates in
You use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and beyond to multiply your output. You're diving head first into the AI revolution and are curious and aware of all the latest developments in AI
Your desire to improve is relentless. You're allergic to bureaucracy or just doing things the way they've always been done. You drive systems-level change without needing to be asked
Helping to build and maintain our database architecture, including a continuously-updated national voter file
Build predictive models of voter and consumer behavior, including candidate and party preference, issue support, persuadability, and turnout
Advocate for and implement outside-the-box approaches to enhance the predictiveness of our models based on hypotheses you've independently developed
Build and maintain tooling to automate analysis workflows for both data and research projects, from automated deliverable creation, modeling, data quality assurance, and AI analysis of survey responses. Proactively suggest and build new solutions to drive efficiency and speed-to-insight across the organization. Use a combination of engineering skills and AI development tools to quickly build, deploy, and refine our analytical tools
Produce advanced statistical analysis deliverables including cluster analysis, persuasion/switch models, and outputs based on more complex or experimental survey methods
More broadly, help us re-imagine everything about our existing platforms and build the next generation of AI-enabled survey research and analysis. Be ready to be a thought- and do-partner in revolutionizing an industry
Process raw survey data into standardized formats for analysis across platforms
Develop and execute weighting plans, automated weighting systems
Produce frequency tables, crosstabs, and statistical significance testing outputs
Maintain combined survey files integrating multiple waves and data sources for longitudinal analysis
Reconcile and append voter-file variables and other external data
Develop fielding and pacing strategies to ensure balanced quota fill and high-quality response collection
Design and implement complex demographic quota structures, including strategies for hard-to-reach groups
Apply multiple safeguards to ensure the highest level of survey data quality
Coordinate reconciliation with vendors to ensure accuracy in billing and disposition data
Benefits
Health
Dental
Vision
401a SIMPLE IRA option
Company
Echelon Insights
Stay in the loop with the latest polling, data, and insights.
Founded in 2014
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-01-01Series A
Leadership Team
Kirsten Anderson
Partner and Co-Founder
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