Analytics Manager - Research Team

Are you passionate about progressive politics? Are you interested in presenting messaging guidance to decision makers? Do you enjoy paying fierce attention to detail? Are you excited to leverage your skills and talents to safeguard our freedoms and build a better future for all of us? Then you should consider working with us!

Blue Rose Research develops a wide range of cutting‑edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research undergirds short‑term and long‑term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

The Blue Rose Research team has a storied history and has worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources. The work produced by the team is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, PhD data scientists and political insiders who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem.

Managers on the Research Team at Blue Rose Research manage the day‑to‑day of our partnerships across the progressive community, as well as internally among our data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts to deliver results on time. The insights from our products are used for understanding the issues important to the American public, what policies should be supported, how best to argue for them, and much more.

We are responsible for research products that are scalable, robust, accurate, and useful.

We’re a fast and dynamic team, and you’ll be contributing to an increasingly rapid cadence of research projects with a growing roster of clients from across the progressive political world. We’re looking for you to bring your passion for politics, an ability to translate between technical and non‑technical stakeholders, a strong attention to detail, and a desire to make a big impact on a timeline.

We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, and health benefits, and the ability for you to be your full self at work! While the work is remote, most of the team is NYC based where we have an office.

Salary range: $90-$130k per annum, commensurate with experience. This position is full time. Remote allowed, Washington D.C. area preferred.

• Serving as the point of contact for a portfolio of clients, building trusted relationships and ensuring research findings are delivered clearly, on time, and with strategic context
• Designing and launching surveys that will be taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans
• Managing the fielding of multiple surveys simultaneously to ensure sufficient data collection on time and on budget
• Tracking timelines and priorities and liaising between data scientists, engineers, and client‑facing stakeholders
• Supporting external outreach efforts, including presentations to clients, political partners, and other vendors and consultants
• Analyzing data to answer questions from political strategists and clients
• Building subject matter context and thinking critically about our data in order to discern real trends versus potential bugs to flag for our machine learning data scientists
• Contributing new ideas to the ways we analyze, interpret, and communicate our data – we strive to deliver the best strategic guidance and believe that everyone on the team is part of that goal
• Providing product feedback to engineers to improve our tools for internal and external usage

• Have at least 3-4 years professional experience, including internships
• Have at least 1 year experience in a client or external‑facing role
• Are comfortable with SQL and relational databases. Can quickly orient themselves to a new dataset, perform exploratory analysis, spot data quality issues, and justify decisions about how to handle imperfect data
• Have some background in R or python programming
• Can comfortably explain basic modeling and regression techniques for a non‑technical audience
• Have strong oral and written communication skills, especially in a remote environment
• Enjoy spending as much of…