Remote Senior Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Senior Data Scientist at the DNC Tech Team, focusing on data science to help Democrats win elections by providing strategic guidance and effective voter outreach. The role requires collaboration with various teams, mentoring colleagues, managing projects, and promoting team cultural values.

Requirements

• Have experience doing data science or statistics in a social sciences context, which may include electoral politics
• Advanced proficiency with R or Python and SQL
• Multiple years of experience with predictive modeling, record linkage methods, and/or experiment design
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build new predictive models for more efficient voter outreach
• Collaborate with the Scores team to deliver results
• Evaluate vendor-provided models for purchase
• Improve and extend our internal record linkage tooling
• Increase Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning
• Mentor colleagues, both formally and informally
• Manage projects
• Promote tech team cultural values

Benefits

• Paid time off, including Federal holidays, open leave, and personal days
• Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents
• Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase
• Pre-tax Flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents