Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with the BlueLabs project teams to design our polling solutions.
- Manage other members of the polling team, reviewing their work, and providing regular and ongoing feedback, coaching, mentorship, and learning and development opportunities.
- Oversee the polling process from end-to-end, including programming survey questionnaires, pulling samples, tracking and monitoring surveys while in the field, and weighting the results.
- Help to prepare and deliver client deliverables such as toplines and crosstabs.
- Determine final results in concert with the team and develop insights for clients in presentation materials.
- Coordinate with team members on experiments, modeling, and other analytics surveys.
- Collaborate with our Data Science team on polling methodology and to work on research questions to improve our operations and polling processes.
- Work with the Director of Polling to suggest and implement polling process improvements and keep a pulse on new innovations in the industry.
- Help oversee relevant vendor relationships; regularly interacting with and evaluating our vendors.
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, and 5+ years of experience working with survey data.
- 2+ years experience managing others, with a proven track record of developing a growing team.
- An understanding of how to distill requests for a lot of detail down to the most important points and find the most relevant information in a sea of facts.
- Experience conducting data analysis on tight deadlines where the problem is unstructured, or guidance is open ended.
- Expertise in programming languages such as SQL, R, and/or Python.
- The ability to manipulate data and are comfortable working with spreadsheets.
Nice to Have
- Experience working in polling is a particularly strong bonus.
- Someone who is passionate about harnessing data-driven solutions to improve social outcomes.
- Someone who is detail-oriented and proactive.
Benefits
- Premier health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- 401K matching
- Unlimited paid time off
- Paid personal and volunteer leave
- 13 paid holidays
- 15 weeks paid parental leave
- Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
- Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Supportive & collaborative culture
- Flexible working hours
- Pre-tax transportation options for commuting to our office in Washington, DC
- Lunches and snacks
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Structure: The BlueLabs Polling Team specializes in survey data collection to provide strategic advice to our clients. We work closely with client teams and data scientists to design and implement survey programs that power our analysis and messaging recommendations. Our focus is on understanding what motivates people to vote, buy a product, hold an opinion, and whether campaigns are successful. Operating in a fast-paced, impact-oriented environment, our collaborative team engages across teams in support of our clients’ objectives. We excel at defining complex challenges, creatively sourcing data, and driving progress every day. We work in changing, ambiguous environments, and are at the forefront of addressing the most challenging issues facing the survey research industry today.
Additional Information
- Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply.
- As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
- If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations.
- BlueLabs participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law.
