Blue Rose Research aims to develop cutting-edge research products for progressive organizations to inform political strategy and decision-making. The job is focused on delivering scalable, accurate, and impactful research insights to support progressive causes and influence policy decisions.
Requirements
- 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
- Some background in R or Python programming
- Enjoy spending as much of their time interacting with other people as they do writing code
- Have a desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, machine learning data scientists, statisticians and political experts
- Enjoy and have experience working in fast-paced environments turning around a high volume of relatively small projects
- Solutions-oriented, have strong attention to detail, and are a creative thinker who isn’t daunted by open-ended research questions
- Are interested in and passionate about progressive politics; willing to engage with the wider progressive political ecosystem and develop domain knowledge in addition to technical insight
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Other
- Have at least 1-2 years professional experience, including internships
- Have strong oral and written communication skills, especially in a remote environment
- Are a kind person and a team player who contributes to a warm working environment
- Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States
- Are excited about working with less-technical stakeholders and seeing how their work impacts real-world decision making
