Analytics Lead

About BlueLabs

BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data. 

Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. We’ve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, political campaigns, and businesses. Along the way, we’ve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.

About the Team

The Strategic Analytics Team at BlueLabs drives high quality, innovative research and analysis across BlueLabs’ client sectors, including commercial, political, and non-profit clients, to inform data-driven decisions and strategy. Team members analyze and interpret data, provide strategic program insight, drive innovation across sectors, and collaborate closely with both our client and technical teams. 

Our team is often called to answer questions like:

• What are the meaningful messaging takeaways from a poll of industry elites for a major corporation to consider in their paid communication?
• How should a movie studio structure their marketing based on who a likely movie goer is?
• What political trends should a campaign be aware of, and what are the different pathways to victory?
• How do we present our models, calculators, and reports, so our partners get the information they need?

Tools of the Trade

• We work closely with our Data Science team, so you’ll need an understanding of statistical concepts, be able to interpret results and explain them to non-analysts
• We use big data sets so you will need to be comfortable with tools to access information and analyze that information such as SQL and some statistical and/or spreadsheet software
• We use an array of business intelligence tools to visualize our findings.  Members of our team have different strengths such as GIS or Tableau -- so we look for some  experience using such tools
• We’re only successful if we can communicate our findings; writing skills, PowerPoint, Keynote and other tools of the consultant toolbox will help you succeed in this job

About the Role

As part of the Insights at BlueLabs, you’ll be working with a group of analysts and data scientists who work across BlueLabs’ client sectors, including commercial, political, and non-profit clients, to inform data-driven decisions and strategy.

This position is both a project manager overseeing medium- to large-scale clients as well as a hands-ons contributor providing data management, report or calculator building, and memo or deck preparation or other analysis as needed on larger-scale projects. Analytics Leads are principal managers, people leaders, and client-facing representatives on their accounts.

This position requires a mix of internal and external leadership, analysis, data management and presentation, and communication skills. You’ll be responsible for hard analysis as well as putting together the data infrastructure, reports and calculators that will power our solutions and putting together the client-facing materials that summarizes those findings. You’ll be providing team leadership, problem solving challenges, and responsible for ensuring we hit deadlines with insightful and actionable analysis.

Some examples of projects you might work on:

• Manage large projects from beginning to end, taking ownership of the work process and the end product
• Tackle broad, open-ended analysis questions with little guidance, such as "was this advertising campaign successful?" or "why did this candidate win her election?"
• Solve complicated and thorny technical problems to make our projects flow more easily
• Manage team members and support their growth and development

What we are seeking

• You have demonstrated experience leading other senior analysts on large unstructured projects.
• You possess the technical acumen to autonomously lead projects, offering direction and support to team members when necessary.
• You have 2+ years directly managing analysts or technical staff
• You are passionate about harnessing data-driven solutions to improve social outcomes
• You’re eager to continue to learn and contribute to mentoring others in the frontier of fundamental techniques in data management, analysis, and visualization
• Your professional experience using data to identify clear insights allows you to be able to conduct data analysis even on tight deadlines, where the problem is unstructured, or the guidance is open ended
• You likely have at least a bachelor’s degree in a related field with some statistical background and 6+ years of experience analyzing data and building reports
• You’ve created reports and worked with data visualization and business intelligence tools
• You’ve created maps with GIS data and used software such as QGIS or ArcGIS
• You have experience with programming languages such as Python and SQL
• You have worked with spreadsheet and presentation software (Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Keynote)
• You have leadership competencies in the following: empathy, active listening, coaching/feedback, integrity, decisiveness, and problem solving 
• You are effective in navigating and managing client relationships, solving problems, making connections, and implementing opportunities

What We Offer:

BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Salary: $105,000 annually
• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development & learning stipend
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible working hours
• Telecommuting options
• Pre-tax transportation options 
• And more! 

While we prefer this position to be in the Washington, DC area, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S. 

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, BlueLabs strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment. BlueLabs adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations. Except where prohibited by law, applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment will be required to produce proof of vaccination status prior to their first day of employment; if not the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated. BlueLabs will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability, pregnancy, or on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws.

At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. 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.

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