Data Strategy Specialist

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Civitech is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating a fairer and more equitable democracy by building tools and infrastructure needed to increase civic participation, empower Democratic candidates, and support the success of progressive causes. Since its founding in 2019, over 500 partners—including nonprofit organizations, national political committees and individual campaigns—have utilized Civitech’s tools to reach tens of millions of voters to help create a more equitable democracy.

The Data Strategy Specialist will leverage their database engineering, database design and data analysis skills to identify and resolve cases of problematic data, improve our data infrastructure and implement solutions to effectively store and manage civic data. This person will join a team building an unparalleled database on U.S. government officeholders, candidates and places. Civitech is a remote‑first company hiring within our current footprint of 24 states (AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY);
Civitech also has an office in Austin, TX.

It is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.

• Serve as an in‑house expert on the data we collect, its limitations, scope and accuracy, and on the design of our relational database.
• Act as an external consultant for technical customers who seek to integrate our data into their tools or processes.
• Identify areas of improvement in our data quality assurance processes; propose and implement improvements as appropriate.
• Understand both ongoing and historical data problems, devise solutions, and translate them into software and database requirements.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers as they design software tools to ensure the database interacts appropriately with new designs.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Act as a technical resource for staff working on the ongoing collection and ingestion of geospatial data representing districts at all levels of government.
• Generate new analyses built on our data using tools such as regression and statistical analysis.
• Act as a manager and technical mentor to junior team members.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Expert SQL knowledge.
• Experience working with political data, maintaining complex datasets and designing novel ETL processes.
• Committed to leveraging technology and data products to increase civic participation.
• Experience with database design, database engineering and data analysis.

• Familiarity with APIs (Graph
  
  QL) and software to interact with them (Altair).
• Coding languages such as Ruby, Python and JavaScript to develop applications.
• GIS software (QGIS, ArcGIS).
• Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and statistical inference.
• Previous work experience on a political campaign.

The Data Acquisition team focuses on building processes to extract, normalize, ingest, and regularly refresh large volumes of civic data. This includes data relating to current positions, officeholders and candidates for office from the federal level to local special districts. The team also collects geospatial data to power our products and direct users to useful voting resources.

This role may be asked to manage others.

Full‑time – exempt, fully remote (must be within current 27 states). Salary range commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Civitech is not able to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Civitech provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance…