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About the Texas Democratic Party

Founded in 1846, Texas Democrats continue the march towards a state as great as its promise.

A fair shot for all, that’s what drove Democrats to build this great state, and that is what drives us today. A belief that no matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, or who you love if you work hard in Texas, you can make it.

We believe democratic government exists to achieve as a community, state, and nation what we cannot achieve as individuals.

We believe in equal opportunity, fairness, freedom, family, community, and a responsibility to ourselves and each other. These are the values our elders passed down to us, the values we hope to share with our children, and the values we expect from our elected officials.

The Texas Democratic Party is a movement of millions of Texans coming together to fight for our Texas values. We know our state cannot succeed when the deck is stacked against working Texans and their families.

This is a highly technical, creative problem solver who thrives in a collaborative, client-focused environment. They are responsible for designing, building, and validating advanced statistical and machine-learning models to support campaigns. They partner closely with internal teams and external clients to design custom analytics solutions, contribute to proposal development, and translate complex statistical findings into clear, actionable insights.

Start Date: Immediately

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Dallas

Wages: $85,000 annual

Hybrid role- requiring 3 days a week in the office.

Reports to: Chief Campaigns Officer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead in-depth analyses of voter file data, survey responses, program implementation data, and other relevant datasets to extract actionable insights and inform strategic decisions.
• Lead on the development and maintenance of data infrastructure, analysis, reporting dashboards, and other data-related projects.
• Build and maintain automated and ad-hoc reports to evaluate organizing, volunteer recruitment, and voter contact programs.
• Work closely with campaign departments to collect, analyze, and present actionable insights that inform strategic decisions.
• Create targeted volunteer and voter contact universes tailored to specific contact modes and program objectives.
• Analyze program results and present findings and recommendations to campaign leadership.
• Design creative analytical approaches to answer novel research questions, translating ambiguous problems into rigorous, data-driven solutions.
• Perform meta-analyses of dozens of randomized controlled trials conducted across multiple election cycles to inform future program design.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of alternative targeting approaches using existing data, proposing data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Engage directly with clients to understand project requirements and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Build and validate predictive models to enhance the targeting of voter contact programs, optimizing resource allocation and maximizing outreach effectiveness.
• Visualize and present results of analyses to technical and lay audiences.
• Entrepreneurial instincts to grow and develop the department with novel projects and strategies.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience with the responsibilities described.
• Exceptional project management skills, with a proven ability to manage complex analytical projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
• Experience aligning analyses with strategic objectives, using data-driven insights to inform and influence programmatic decisions and long-term planning.
• Experience with a variety of non-randomized methods for causal inference, such as matching and regression discontinuity designs.
• Adept at figuring out what data will be needed and organizing data for analysis.
• Proficiency in building predictive models, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, and evaluation.
• Experience designing, executing, and analyzing randomized controlled trials.
• Required programming experience: SQL and either R or Python.

Preferred qualifications:

• Expertise and experience in elections, voter contact programs, or voter file data.
• Experience with advanced causal inference methods, including heterogeneous treatment effect modeling and machine learning-based approaches.

How to Apply: Please APPLY here.

The Texas Democratic Party is committed to diversity among its staff and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to attracting and retaining a diverse staff that reflects Texas and provides the best quality services to supporters and constituents. The Texas Democratic Party is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, creed, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, ancestry, genetic information, military service, veteran’s status or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law.