Blue Rose Research helps Democrats win elections and advance progressive causes. We work with campaigns and progressive organizations across the country to produce research and build the tools they use to decide what to say and where to spend.
We are hiring a Communications and Political Associate to help turn our research into clear, useful materials for political leaders, clients, and the press. This is an early-career role focused on drafting, research, and coordination, with guidance and review from senior staff.
What you'll doMessaging and communications
- Draft and edit memos, presentations, and other client-facing materials, bringing together research findings and relevant background.
- Draft talking points, Q&A documents, and briefing materials for press appearances, with leadership review. Keep past materials organized for reuse.
- Monitor news and media coverage to identify opportunities for timely polling and message testing.
Political research and outreach
- Prepare research summaries and background materials for Blue Rose staff ahead of briefings with Democratic campaigns, elected officials, advocacy organizations, and other political partners.
- Collect and organize talking points, public statements, and social media content for message testing.
What you'll bring
- Typically 1–3 years of experience in Democratic politics, campaigns, legislative offices, or progressive advocacy. Internship experience counts.
- Strong writing and editing skills, including the ability to turn research into clear, accurate talking points, memos, and briefing materials.
- Comfort coordinating meetings and materials with political staff, clients, and media contacts, with guidance from senior staff.
- Working knowledge of Democratic politics, key organizations, and the current news landscape.
- Strong organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage schedules, drafts, and requests under tight deadlines.
- Good judgment about when to take initiative, ask questions, and flag a problem, and a willingness to revise work based on feedback.
- A commitment to helping Democrats win and using research to inform political decisions.
Helpful, but not required
- Experience with polling, message testing, or political research. A quantitative or research background is welcome but not required.
- Experience with media training or interview preparation.
- Salary $65-75K annually, depending on experience.
- We offer medical, dental, vision, 401k match, 20 weeks paid parental leave, fertility and family-building support through Maven Clinic, and unlimited PTO.
- Based in Washington, D.C., is strongly preferred, but not required.
Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.
Skills Required
- Typically 1–3 years of experience in Democratic politics, campaigns, legislative offices, or progressive advocacy; internship experience counts.
- Strong writing and editing skills, including developing talking points, memos, and briefing materials.
- Ability to coordinate meetings and materials with political staff, clients, and media contacts.
- Working knowledge of Democratic politics, key organizations, and the current news landscape.
- Strong organization and attention to detail, including managing schedules, drafts, and requests under tight deadlines.
- Good judgment, initiative, ability to flag problems, and willingness to revise work based on feedback.
- Commitment to helping Democrats win and using research to inform political decisions.
- Experience with polling, message testing, or political research.
- Quantitative or research background.
- Experience with media training or interview preparation.
- Authorization to work lawfully in the United States.
What We Do
Blue Rose Research is a project with OpenLabs to develop a wide range of cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research undergirds short-term and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers. Our team members have a storied history, and have worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources over the past several electoral cycles. The work produced by the team is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, PhD data scientists and political insiders who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem. Our work ranges from high-dimensional Bayesian modeling to make accurate inferences from polling data to building utility-scale data and analytics infrastructure for the progressive left. Come join us!
