Who We Are

Murmuration transforms how political campaigns, advocates, and organizers identify, engage, and mobilize people and communities.  Our focus is on driving change and accelerating progress toward a future where every child in America has the opportunity to benefit from a high-quality public education.Our partners include the leading practitioners and funders of efforts to ensure access for all children to a high-quality public education.

What We Do

At Murmuration, we provide our partners with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to drive sustained political change—at all levels of government and aspects of civic life. Through the use of predictive intelligence and easy-to-use tools, Murmuration’s partners make informed decisions about who they need to reach, what they need to say, and how to achieve and sustain impact. Every application of this work, as well as shared knowledge and best practices, further improves our collective ability to organize communities and electoral campaigns.

Murmuration offers a fully featured political campaign platform that allows our partners to execute large scale electoral, advocacy and organizing efforts across the United States. The m{insights toolset includes a web platform that sits on top of an aggregated dataset from a wide variety of sources, including publicly available data, consumer data, voterfile data, and membership data furnished by Murmuration’s partners. Partners are also offered sophisticated targeting and outreach tools to help activate key audiences and expand their base of support. Murmuration’s data science team also provides deep analysis on our partners’ work, helping craft experiments and polls, building predictive models and measuring impact. 

About the Position

The Data Manager is one of the primary people responsible for monitoring, reporting on and ensuring Murmuration’s data stores are accurate, complete and up-to-date. They are expert problem solvers, familiar with modern databases and SQL, who can deal with escalated issues involving data discrepancies, and other data mysteries. They are also responsible for sourcing and integrating new datasets via API or data pipelines, needed to support the work done by Murmuration and its partners. Given the scale of the datasets involved there is often a heavy focus on automation for both data processing and quality control.

The Data team is a highly collaborative, friendly and hard-working group and we are looking for a Data Manager that embodies those values. The Data Manager will report to the Senior Data Manager, and work very closely with our Partnerships, Data Engineering and Analytic teams.

The Data Manager will:

• Help manage and coordinate Murmuration’s day-to-day data strategy, including establishing a scalable monitoring and maintenance solution across Murmuration’s various data stores
• Lead efforts to craft and drive a scalable data acquisition strategy for new data sources that yields a sufficiently robust and quality dataset upon which the analysis team can build models and tools and for use by partners to enhance targeted outreach
• Work closely with our platform developers to find and fix any data issues related to the m{insights platform and its integrations with 3rd party tools, our AWS Redshift and partner CRMs
• Establish and document internal policies and procedures on data standards, best practices, and organizational structure
• Explore and understand new and existing data in order to better advise internal and external parties on how to use it.
• Make recommendations and provide strategic support regarding ways to make data and database operations more efficient and effective across Murmuration

Candidate Profile

Murmuration attracts employees with distinctive and diverse backgrounds and accomplishments. Integrity, creativity, flexibility, and drive are key attributes of competitive candidates. 

The following are “must have” qualities for an ideal candidate:

• An unquenchable desire to identify and fix data issues in a large, complex data environment, we rely on you to constantly be hunting for issues and not waiting to be reactive
• Moderate knowledge of SQL including creating complex queries and manipulating large data sets; or moderate experience of a scripting language (e.g. Python)
• Strong problem solving skills as well as the ability to manage several tasks/projects concurrently and prioritize work effectively
• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with various internal and external stakeholders to develop data strategy and partnerships

The following are “nice to have” qualities for an ideal candidate:

• Experience with voter file or election data, or other datasets containing personally identifiable information (PII) is a large plus.
• Moderate knowledge of SQL including creating complex queries and manipulating large data sets; and moderate experience of a scripting language (e.g. Python)

Location, Compensation and Benefits

The Data Manager is a full-time, salaried position based onsite in New York City, with a comprehensive benefits package. Salary for this position is commensurate with experience.

An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity

Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation and national origin. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job.