About the Role
Senior Analytics Manager
Washington, DC (Hybrid) or Remote
About BlueLabs
BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients, including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data.
Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists comes together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the worlds greatest social and analytical challenges. Weve served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, unions, political campaigns, international groups, and companies. Along the way, weve developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach–serving a diverse set of industries, including automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.
About the Team
The Strategic Analytics Team at BlueLabs drives high quality, innovative research and analysis across BlueLabs client sectors. Team members manage the underlying data that drives our day-to-day work, analyze and interpret data, provide strategic program insight, drive innovation across sectors, and collaborate closely with both our client and technical teams.
About the Role
The Senior Analytics Manager will oversee complex quantitative research workstreams and develop new data-driven solutions for a major commercial client. This role suits someone with deep analytics expertise, strong communications skills, and the strategic ability to distill client needs.
As a leader and strategist, this role will be looking at the big picture, thinking creatively, and working with a team of analysts and data scientists to interpret the data that drives key insights. The Senior Analytics Manager will provide a deep technical understanding of the project and develop solid relationships with key stakeholders across the internal teams to provide effective guidance of the deliverables. This role will report to the Director of Strategic Analytics.
In this position you will:
- Lead a team of analysts on quantitative research projects (including analyzing experimental designs, RCTs, tracking digital marketing programs, interpreting statistical modeling, and survey development and analysis)
- Lead the generation of weekly insights and client deliverables
- Play a critical role in providing valuable strategic business insight and actionable recommendations to senior team leadership
- Assess the performance of various marketing experiments and RCTs on an ongoing basis to identify new opportunities and insights
- Ensure that the projects that are delivered are of high quality and meets the established standards
- Oversee a team of project analysts in executing workstreams and managing project needs
This position is both a project manager overseeing a team on a large commercial project as well as a hands-ons contributor providing technical guidance and support. The senior analytics lead will oversee the work of analysts within indirect cross-functional teams.
What we are seeking
- 5+ years of relevant experience, including advanced analytics leadership
- 2-3 years of experience managing technical projects and analysts, either as a direct manager or dotted line
- While specific industry and commercial experience is not a must-have, having 3-4 years of experience in a corporate setting or similar experience working with corporate clients is preferred.
- Strong familiarity in individual-level statistical modeling, polling, managing experimental designs, randomized control trials (RCTs), or tracking a marketing program is a plus
- Strong experience with programming languages such as Python, SQL, or R
- Experience with individual-level commercial files is a plus
- Competency in conducting/analyzing data and navigating large volumes of information to synthesize whats most important and actionable
- Strong interpersonal skills and a consultative mindset, with the ability to develop strong partnerships and influence
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrate good presentation skills by pairing sound analytics with storytelling