About The Democratic Party of Wisconsin

WisDems is nationally recognized as one of the country’s highest-performing and most pivotal political organizations. During the upcoming election cycle, WisDems will drive massive programs to hold Republicans accountable, elect progressive candidates up and down the ballot, and work to build volunteer-led coalitions for the long term. WisDems’ work is grounded in inclusion, respect, and empowerment across race, gender, other dimensions of identity, and the rural/suburban/urban divide. Our work continues year-round, collaborating with partners to build a movement that delivers meaningful change for all Wisconsinites. We seek outstanding applicants who share our values and vision to join the team, help win elections, and build a future where everyone can thrive.

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About The Democratic Party of Wisconsin: WisDems is nationally recognized as one of the country’s highest-performing and most pivotal political organizations. During the upcoming election cycle, WisDems will drive massive programs to elect progressive candidates up and down the ballot, and work to build volunteer-led coalitions for the long term. WisDems’ work is grounded in inclusion, respect, and empowerment across race, gender, other dimensions of identity, and the rural/suburban/urban divide. Our work continues year-round, collaborating with partners to build a movement that delivers meaningful change for all Wisconsinites. We seek outstanding applicants who share our values and vision to join the team, help win elections, and build a future where everyone can thrive.

The Opportunity: WisDems seeks an intelligent, personable, organized, self-starting individual to be a part of our data team on a full-time basis. As the Deputy Data Director, you will work with the Data team at the party, informing WisDems’ electoral strategy work, partnering with other departments (including Organizing, Voter Protection, Political & Communications) to execute projects, and using data to ensure WisDems' work leverages our resources effectively and reflects our values. In coordination with the Data and Analytics Director, the Deputy Data Director will help handle the day-to-day data needs of races in Wisconsin, county party organizations, state and federal campaigns, and activists.

What You’ll Do at WisDems: 

• Design and build reports and tools for other departments and external partners in line with key programmatic priorities, particularly the Organizing and Voter Protection departments.
• • Build data pipelines, integrations and automated workflows for reporting and data flow purposes using tools such as Google BigQuery.
  • Provide timely and relevant analysis of data and fielding requests for specialized research projects, in many cases requiring rapid turnaround.
  • Produce and share analysis of voter contact results, early vote and absentee turnout, voter registration, and other data relevant to campaigns.
• Manage all aspects of Packetland - this includes but is not limited to:
• • Coding the necessary data pipelines
  • Owning backwards planning and tracking deadlines on an ongoing basis
  • Interfacing with other departments to communicate deadlines, needs, and core strategic decisions.
• Communicate our data systems with other departments as well as with external stakeholders such as candidates, volunteers, and County Parties through:
• • Maintaining and responding to our ticketing system for data support requests and exports.
  • Implementing systems for access to and data sharing within Votebuilder including managing users, user profiles, and committees.
  • Developing and presenting VAN training materials to the organizing team and external stakeholders in statewide, small group and one-on-one settings.
• Support other members of the data team to complete projects as necessary, including administering tools such as VAN, Hubdialer, Reach and other voter contact platforms.
• On year requirements include working outside of normal work hours; including canvassing and other election-preparation as necessary.

Core Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: Advanced technical ability coding in SQL, Python, and Google Sheets. Experience creating and managing data pipelines.
• Accountability & Solution-Oriented: You take full ownership of your actions and commitments, holding yourself to a high standard and seeing objectives through to completion. When challenges arise, you approach them with a problem-solving mindset, focusing on solutions rather than pointing fingers.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: You succeed by working as a team, stepping up to support teammates, and sharing knowledge freely. You actively break down silos by connecting across teams, inviting different perspectives, and staying open to new ideas to achieve shared goals.
• Growth & Adaptability: You are dedicated to continuous improvement and challenge yourself to learn and adapt. You proactively seek, offer, and act on feedback with openness and can anticipate potential obstacles to take proactive steps.
• Respect & Inclusion: You build strong relationships by treating everyone with kindness, dignity, and trust. You approach interactions assuming positive intent and have the courage to address difficult topics directly and honestly while showing care for others.
• Transparent Communication: You communicate openly and honestly to build trust and alignment. You are proactive in setting clear expectations, sharing the "why" behind decisions, and providing timely updates to ensure the right people have the information they need.

Qualifications (Preferred): 

• Previous campaign experience is preferred, especially familiarity with Organizing, Voter Protection, and with Wisconsin politics.
• Experience managing external stakeholder relationships and ticketing systems.
• Knowledge of DNC and NGPVAN vansync tables.
• Experience pushing and pulling data via the APIs of widely used political vendors, such as NGPVAN, Civis Platform, Reach, Google BigQuery and Cloud Storage.
• Working experience with Civis Platform or the Google BigQuery/Cloud Storage data warehouses.

Benefits: Great benefits including; excellent health care ($1/month), dental ($1/month), vision ($1/month), life insurance (free), short term and long-term disability (free), mileage reimbursement, monthly cell phone stipend, paid vacation days, retirement plan with employer match, 4 floating holidays, 9 paid holidays. 

Equity and Inclusion: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has a vision for a deeply inclusive and diverse party organization, membership, and electorate. In order to be successful at the  Democratic Party of Wisconsin candidates must have the cultural competence to successfully  work with a diverse array of constituency groups. We especially strongly encourage applicants  with close ties to Black, Indigenous, AAPI, Latinx, Muslim, non-English-speaking, disability, and LGBTQIA+ communities. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.