The Democratic Party

Community Analyst

US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in political campaigns, state parties, or political tech organizations.
  • Proven experience in user-facing roles.
  • Familiarity with VoteBuilder and other organizing tools.
  • Strong proficiency in working remotely with effective asynchronous communication.
  • Basic knowledge of SQL or similar languages for data analysis.
  • Commitment to supporting the Democratic Party and improving politics.

Responsibilities

  • Provide top-tier user support by troubleshooting technical questions via Zendesk.
  • Coordinate training programs for new features and datasets with the product team.
  • Create and maintain documentation for tech and data products.
  • Manage relationships with state party data staff and resolve voter file issues.
  • Collect and analyze user feedback to improve tools and services.
  • Perform additional tasks to support departmental and organizational goals.

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave.
  • 90% of health and dental insurance premium covered by the DNC.
  • Optional supplementary vision plans available.
  • Up to a 5% employer match in the DNC 401(k) plan.
  • Pre-tax flexible spending accounts for employees and dependents.
Full Job Description
Position Summary:

The Democratic National Committee Tech Team is hiring a Community Analyst to provide frontline support for DNC Tech data and tech products, and offer strategic support to members of the Democratic data ecosystem including state parties, sister committees, and campaigns.

The Community Analyst will report to the Community Director. In addition to external support, the Community Team provides valuable expertise and insights into the user experience to the rest of the DNC Tech Team, working closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Best in class user support. Answer and troubleshoot technical questions from users (Presidential and down ballot campaigns, state parties, sister committees) about our tools, products and datasets, via a customer support queue in Zendesk. Participate in a Community on call rotation to support users and stakeholders outside of business hours, as needed, and more regularly in even years.
  • Training & skills development. Partner with our product team on training, communication, and rollout of new features and datasets for our data warehouse and tech products. Facilitate virtual (and occasional in-person) training on complex technical concepts and tools to a wide range of technical expertise.
  • Ensure documentation and usability of products. Maintain up-to-date and relevant documentation of DNC tech and data products and processes, including creating new content as necessary.
  • State Party relationship management. Build collaborative relationships with state party data staff, including holding regular 1:1s, troubleshooting voter file issues, and responding to and advocating for state party needs.
  • Intake and share user feedback and insights. Be a partner to our community of users, proactively gathering feedback and identifying common problems that we can solve through automation or iteration. This team is responsible for facilitating a profound feedback loop between us and our community of users, in addition to ensuring our tools and products are well documented and utilized.
  • Other duties as assigned to support the department and the DNC's mission.

Skills:

  • User support: Passion for training, documentation, and 1:1 user support, and the ability to tailor communication style to a variety of audiences and levels of technical expertise.
  • Resourcefulness & problem-solving: Tenacity in troubleshooting complex data and technical issues with an investigative mindset, naturally digging into documentation, logs, and previous tickets to hunt down answers before escalating.
  • Organization & prioritization: Highly structured and self-driven with a keen attention to detail. Self-sufficient task management, the ability to juggle competing priorities, and ability to adhere and contribute to team processes.
  • Curiosity: An eagerness to learn and willingness to take initiative in asking questions. Views mistakes as key feedback loops for improvement. Humble enough to recognize the vast depth of the ecosystem and patient with the long journey of mastering DNC data and tools.
  • Relationship management: Ability to build trusting relationships with key stakeholders and users.
  • Adaptability: Willingness to change course and priorities quickly within a rapidly changing ecosystem with urgent deadlines and high stakes.

Qualifications:

  • Experience working on a political campaign or at a state party or political tech organization, working with the voter file is a bonus!
  • Experience in an externally-facing role (i.e. user, customer, or volunteer-facing roles).
  • Experience using VoteBuilder, bonus for other types of organizing tools.
  • Proven track record of thriving in a fully remote environment with strong asynchronous habits (over-communicating status updates, asking questions in open channels, maintaining personal workflows).
  • A basic understanding of SQL, or any other language efficient for analyzing large datasets.
  • A desire to change politics for the better, support the Democratic Party, and secure the future of our country.


Salary: The starting salary for the Community Analyst position is $87,550, on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

This is a full-time, exempt position, that occasionally requires work on weekends. This position is in the bargaining unit represented by SEIU Local-500.

Benefits:

The DNC offers a generous benefit package, including:

  • Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave
  • Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee
  • Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase
  • Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents


The pay range for this role is:

87,550 - 87,550 USD per year (Remote)

About The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be the Democratic-Republican Party. Before 1860, the Democratic Party supported expansive presidential power, the interests of slave states, agrarianism, and expansionism, while opposing a national bank and high tariffs. It split in 1860 over slavery and won the presidency only twice between 1860 and 1910. In the late 19th century, it continued to oppose high tariffs and had fierce internal debates on the gold standard. In the early 20th century, it supported progressive reforms and opposed imperialism, with Woodrow Wilson winning the White House in 1912 and 1916. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition after 1932, the Democratic Party has promoted a social liberal platform, including Social Security and unemployment insurance. The New Deal attracted strong support for the party from recent European immigrants but caused a decline of the party's conservative pro-business wing. Following the Great Society era of progressive legislation under Lyndon B. Johnson, including Medicare, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the core bases of the parties shifted, with the Southern states becoming more reliably Republican and the Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic. The party's labor union element has become smaller since the 1970s, and as the American electorate shifted in a more conservative direction following Ronald Reagan's presidency, the election of Bill Clinton marked a move for the party toward the Third Way, adopting market-oriented economic policies and culturally liberal policies.
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