Director of Analytics, Politics and Advocacy - Applecart

We are a 40-person data science startup that has built a powerful platform that uses publicly available data to map over 25 billion social relationships between over 250M Americans. 

The first application of our technology was in politics, where we have worked for some of the biggest campaigns in the country from Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign to Congressman Conor Lamb’s 2018 special election campaign. 

With the backing of top investors like Endeavor (with Ari Emanuel joining the company’s board), Henry Kravis, Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale, and top engineers at Twitter and Yelp, we have grown beyond politics to support some of the largest companies and nonprofits in the world, from Boeing and Blackstone to the Environmental Defense Fund. 

Our data products help corporations, advocacy organizations, and political campaigns to target their advertising in high stakes situations, ranging from b2b sales to legislative and regulatory issues to major political elections. 

About the Role

As Director of Analytics, you will be a key technology leader at the company. You will supervise a talented team of technical data analysts and data scientists who operate Applecart’s in-house data platform. You will function as an internal methodological expert on the company’s work on behalf of some of the country’s most prominent corporations, political campaigns, independent expenditure efforts, and trade associations.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as technical lead and project manager on complex analytics projects 
• Make key methodological decisions within client projects to inform the optimal development and use of custom microtargeting products (e.g. audiences, models) 
• Provide effective support and mentorship to junior data analysts on topics ranging from the quality of their analytics insights to the efficiency of their SQL queries and Python code
• Manage product development resources dedicated to making platform improvements to make higher quality products at greater efficiency 
• Communicate and present clearly, comfortably, and expertly about data and analytics concepts, verbally and in written form
• Oversee and improve existing quality assurance processes to ensure end-products effectively address customer needs
• Design and execute field experiments to measure impact and improve campaign tactics
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technology and new tools that can improve the accuracy and impact of our data products

Who You Are

Qualifications:

• More than 4 years of experience in an analytics or data science  role(s). You are a mid-to-senior level team member at a data science or analytics firm, a data-driven political committee, political campaign, or outside organization.
• Experience advising high-stakes decisions using polling and predictive modeling to win elections
• Experience creating and delivering reports in presentation, slide deck, and memo form to high-profile decision makers
• Exceptional writing, editing, communication and presentation skills; impeccable attention to detail
• Significant experience managing multiple simultaneous high-stakes projects with competing priorities
• Demonstrated success managing a team of multiple direct reports (more than 1)
• Take a “player-coach” approach to management; most comfortable when both managing and getting your hands dirty
• Strong foundational knowledge of statistics
• Highly proficient in SQL; strong understanding of core machine learning concepts  
• Interest in participating in the product development process

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in Python
• Strong understanding of the operations and methodologies of political analytics and/or polling firm, including the survey writing, fielding, modeling, and reporting processes
• Experience working on a variety of different types of campaigns, from state legislative to high-profile U.S. Senate races or presidential contests, on both the hard dollar and IE-side

• You possess an energetic, upbeat disposition and excellent sense of humor