2026 Data Manager

Empower 2026 Data Manager
Employment Type: Full Time
Minimum Experience: Mid Level

About Us

Empower Project is the national leader in both paid and volunteer relational organizing. 

Empower Project organizes to improve people’s lives using the power of relational organizing. Together with our partners, we’ve helped boost voter turnout, especially for BIPOC communities, through our approach of tapping into personal networks of friends and family. We provide the software and expertise to help communities, progressive organizations, and nonprofits leverage their personal relationships to build power and dramatically expand the electorate. Our cutting-edge technology, Empower, stands at the forefront of the industry and is trusted by over 1,500 organizations nationwide.

It’s effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout — far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.

It’s growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!

About the Program and Role

In 2026 we’ll be running paid relational organizing programs – programs where we recruit folks to talk to their family and friends about elections and issues and then pay them for their time and effort – in several states including Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Job Description
As a member of the Data team, the Data Manager  will work closely with Empower Project leadership, the Organizing Team, and the Digital Team to recruit thousands of Community Mobilizers for paid relational organizing programs in 2026.
The Data Manager will be encouraged to offer input into program design. This position is an opportunity to play a key role on a groundbreaking program that aims to scale to many states in 2026.

Core Responsibilities: 

• Assisting with data projects, program operations, and analytics engineering projects 
• Collaborating with team members, other departments, and external partners as needed to ensure data projects are completed effectively and efficiently
• Cleaning data, maintaining reports and dashboards for internal and external stakeholders to track key metrics
• Support Empower Project leadership in monitoring and identifying trends in the mobilizer recruitment pipeline
• Working with voter file data, targets, and research to help drive program growth at the top and bottom of the funnel
• Assisting program leadership with other activities as needed

Desired Qualifications:

• Python programming experience in a data setting
  • Comfortable with common data science libraries (Pandas, Polars, etc.)
  • Comfortable learning about and implementing different platform APIs
  • Ability to write clean and reusable code for use in a production environment
• Experience with data/analytics engineering
• Experience using version control systems (Git, etc.) and managing a code repository
• Experience querying SQL databases
• Experience creating data visualizations (e.g. Tableau, Looker Studio)
• Experience with BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform products
• Proficiency using Microsoft Excel to analyze data
• Experience working with voter file data

Compensation:

This is a full-time, remote, salaried position, starting on February 16th, 2026 lasting through December 4, 2026.

From February through Labor Day, we will be working Monday - Friday. After Labor Day, the work schedule is six days per week with Saturdays off. Staff will work Sunday - Thursdays 9am - 6pm Eastern.  Fridays are a shortened schedule, ending at 5pm Eastern. We will also work the full week before the November election. 

The salary for this position is $7,000/month. Because this role has a fixed term, you will be classified as a limited term employee. For this role we offer health insurance and personal time, per our employee handbook.

Empower Project is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. Women, persons of color, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.