Versant

Versant

Data Analytics Manager, Elections

New York, NEW YORK, United States

No sponsorship$130k-$185kDetected 9 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningData AnalysisData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsStatisticsAccessibilityForecastingRecruitingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment.
  • You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in evaluating race projections, statistical models, and forecasting methodologies from external vendors and partners.
  • Create dashboards, data visualizations, and reporting tools that support editorial decision-making and audience engagement.
  • Support newsroom teams with polling interpretation and best practices for reporting election data responsibly and accurately.
  • Explore and implement innovative uses of AI and automation to enhance election analysis, newsroom workflows, data processing, and audience insights.
  • Partner with technical and product teams to improve newsroom tools, data accessibility, and real-time analytics capabilities.
  • Collaborate with editorial, research, operations, graphics, and engineering teams across platforms.
  • Support future partnerships and initiatives related to elections, polling, and audience analytics.

Requirements

  • Must be willing to work in New York, NY.
  • Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
  • The ideal candidate has a strong background in data science, elections, polling, and statistical analysis, along with the ability to transform raw data into compelling insights and storytelling.
  • Strong understanding of the U.S. electoral system, election administration, polling methodologies, and voting trends, including familiarity with key states, districts, and counties in recent U.S. elections.
  • Proficiency with analytical and visualization tools such as Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms.
  • As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

Nice to have

  • Analyze vote count, polling, voter survey, and demographic data to identify and report on trends, voting patterns, and actionable editorial insights.
  • Process and interpret raw election and polling datasets to produce original analysis for newsroom and audience consumption.
  • Spearhead the distribution of polling insights and election guidance across broadcast, streaming, and digital news platforms.
  • Rigorously test election systems, including graphical, data visualization, and touchscreen software.
  • Contribute to original explanatory journalism focused on voter behavior, turnout trends, demographic shifts, and electoral outcomes.
  • Help audiences understand not only how people voted, but why they voted the way they did through data-driven storytelling and analysis.
  • Translate complex statistical findings into clear, compelling talking points, graphics, and editorial guidance.
  • Work closely with vote count and polling vendors to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and quality assurance.

Compensation

  • $130,000 - $185,000
  • VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
  • We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization.
  • Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

Benefits

  • Monitor real-time election results and provide rapid analysis during breaking news and election-night coverage.
  • Collaborate with producers, reporters, and editors to integrate analytics into daily and long-form political coverage.
  • Help identify emerging technologies and analytical approaches that strengthen elections coverage and storytelling.
  • 5+ years of experience in political data analysis, polling, elections coverage, journalism, data science, or related fields.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
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