ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

America Votes works year-round to build a more representative democracy, strengthen every American’s right to vote, and win elections in key states.
America Votes leads a robust, growing coalition of more than 400 progressive organizations across the country, building coordinated plans and executing shared strategies to win elections. America Votes provides a range of services to partners, including strategic planning, advocacy and electoral campaign coordination, data tools and targeting services, and on-the-ground leadership in states.
For more than 20 years, America Votes has been the common link between many of the most influential and impactful issue and membership organizations in the country, serving as the coordination hub of the progressive community. America Votes’ work has brought together a wide range of causes and built a unified coalition that has transformed how the progressive community works. Together, America Votes and its partners have engaged communities across the country to act on critical issues - from fighting for working families, to defending reproductive freedom, to protecting the environment, and more - and mobilized millions of voters.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

America Votes is looking for a Data Scientist to join our Analytics team for the 2026 cycle and beyond. The ideal candidate is an experienced professional who has prior experience as a data scientist or analyst in an electoral context, a strong foundation in statistics and machine learning, and a vision for how we can use data to answer key questions around targeting, program logistics, and resource allocation such as:

• How can we estimate the likelihood of a given voter seeing a message from our coalition across modes such as field, mail, phones, digital, and TV?
• Where should we recommend our partners open their offices to maximize the geographic reach of our coalition’s program?

Our analytics team already includes a Data Analyst, who focuses on data visualization and voter contact reporting, and an Analytics Engineer, who transforms our voter contact and voter file data into base tables using dbt. For the Data Scientist role, we’re looking for a teammate who can expand our analysis toolkit, using statistics and machine learning to help us deliver new insights faster and with more rigor.
This is a permanent position that reports to the Deputy National Data and Targeting Director and is union-eligible.

• Lead analysis projects from ideation to presentation: Work with AV staff across departments to understand questions, plan and execute analyses, and share results with compelling decks, memos, and visualizations.
• Bring new methods to old questions: Use machine learning to analyze data at a national scale and surface new insights about program strategy and tactics.
• Proactively look for ways to improve existing products and systems with an eye toward automation and rigor. Collaborate with teammates from analytics, data support, and engineering to implement changes.
• Evaluate and produce guidance about the predictive models we use in our voter contact work, with a particular focus on race equity considerations.
• Serve as an analytics leader and coach: Stay up to date with research and best practices. Pitch in to pair program, train staff, or write code for projects that could benefit from more advanced methods.
• Ensure that racial equity is integrated into all parts of our data work, and proactively look for ways to advance America Votes’s organizational commitment to race equity.
• Additional duties as assigned.