[Hiring] Data Manager @Working Families Party

Role Description The Data Manager at the Working Families Party (WFP) ensures that data tools smoothly supercharge our organizing. They are responsible for the data side of our tools and work closely with those responsible for the organizing side to maximize our impact on campaigns and as a movement. Based in the Data Department, this role takes responsibility for the ownership and management of the data systems for WFP’s core organizing software, such as EveryAction, VAN, Votivate, Scale to Win, and Mobilize. This role requires a balance of backend tool administration expertise and frontline stakeholder collaboration skills. The Data Manager plays a major role in ensuring data integrity for our single sources of truth in a large, multi-state, highly-coalition-oriented organization. They have lead responsibility for quality assurance and quality checks (QA/QC) of our organizing tool data. This is a highly collaborative role, responsible for supporting tool adoption and making technical information accessible through training and documentation. They act as a thought partner to organizers and staff to develop effective data organization systems.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience working for candidate campaigns and movement organizations in data and organizer roles
• Experience and deep familiarity administrating electoral software tools (e.g., VAN, EveryAction, Mobilize, Scale to Win)
• Facility with SQL and BigQuery in political contexts
• Experience using Google Sheets and/or Airtable in advanced organizing contexts
• Deep familiarity with at least one and ideally multiple national voterfile products (TargetSmart, Catalist, L2), including scores
• Experience with using Google Data Studio, Hex, or other platforms for data visualization and reporting
• Experience self-organizing data projects from beginning to end: scoping, design, gathering input, implementation, maintenance, and improvement
• Facility with analytical reasoning to troubleshoot both technical and stakeholder problems
• Excellent attention to detail and a keen eye for design
• Confident in their ability to design and implement a system that addresses the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Experience in a fast-paced, stakeholder-support role (tickets, requests)

Requirements

• Serve as an in-house data expert on organizing tools, including EveryAction, Mobilize, VAN, Votivate, and others
• Design and implement approaches to organize data and processes in these systems and take ownership of data maintenance
• Develop systems, structures, templates, processes, and documentation that organizers can apply in practice to enter, modify, and retrieve data
• Maintain Data Integrity by ensuring that our data systems serve as single sources of truth for our organizing work
• Develop quality assurance processes to ensure that data generation is standardized across our suite of voter contact tools
• Continuously conduct quality checks and standardize data to ensure datasets are a high-fidelity, usable reflection of reality
• Audit organizing tools regularly to ensure proper permissioning and that data protocols are being used across the organization
• Serve as one of the main points of contact for data needs across the organization
• Troubleshoot organizers’ data challenges with organizing tools
• Train and support organizers on the data aspects of tool use
• Provide additional capacity to enter, modify, and retrieve data to organizers
• Write accurate, efficient SQL queries to answer a range of inquiries and questions about our data
• Provide data visualizations and reporting that delivers actionable insight into WFP’s electoral and member organizing

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement plan options
• Professional development funding
• Remote work support