We fuse rigorous, methodologically sound analysis with our cutting-edge technology platform, Narrative Analytics®. This powerful combination enables us to quantitatively analyze open-source media, deliver strategic recommendations, and craft executive-level communication strategies for clients with missions that matter.
Why Us?
Our team is a vibrant mix of communication specialists, data scientists, and subject matter experts with extensive experience across U.S. Government agencies, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. By joining Protagonist, you’ll immerse yourself in a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions truly matter.
What We Do
- Innovative Solutions: We co-develop cutting-edge solutions with our clients to address tough communication problems and capitalize on opportunities to make a tangible impact.
- Data-Driven Insights: Our tools and methodologies provide actionable insights that help clients meet their communication objectives and stay ahead of global challenges.
- Applied Expertise: We integrate our solutions within client organizations, leveraging our profound expertise to address critical issues and ensure sustainable success.
Be Part of Something Bigger
At Protagonist, you’ll work on compelling projects that make a real difference. We seek talented individuals eager to contribute to our mission and grow alongside us. If you’re passionate about communication, data analysis, and making an impact, we invite you to explore a career with Protagonist.
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Job Description
The Data Science Analyst has a passion for unleashing the power of data to drive strategic decisions. You will support the continued development of our Narrative Analytics® offering, finding and isolating the online media conversations that matter and curating powerful datasets that will drive success for our customers. You are deeply data-savvy, have outstanding statistics and analytic skills, are highly familiar with the latest machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools, and are creative and enthusiastic about using technology, data, and the power of narratives to solve complex problems. You have a strong backing in data science concepts and text analytics. You are comfortable with ambiguity and hard problems and you thrive in fast-paced start-up environments, solving cutting-edge data challenges.
Responsibilities
The Data Science Analyst takes an active role in all of our customer-facing projects, helping to solve data and analytic problems. The Data Science Analyst will be expected to collaborate across teams on both client deliverables and internal process priorities. Specific responsibilities include:
- Working with a range of media content aggregators and deploying a variety of scrapers, scripts, and other data mining tools to develop narrative-rich data sets to address customer needs
- Employing state-of-the-art NLP machine learning methods to analyze large unstructured text-based datasets, extract topics, and build classification models
- Using querying languages to clean and manipulate datasets
- Conducting statistical modeling and predictive analysis to identify trends and insights
- Collaborating with the case teams to visualize data insights in interactive dashboards that answer key client questions
- Supporting our analytics approach to data and collaborating closely with Client Solutions teammates to deliver Narrative Analytics to our customers
Requirements
- Authorized to work in the US
- Must be able to work on US Government contracts that may be restricted to US citizens
- Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or Mathematics
- BS Degree with relevant internship experience with a proven track record of leveraging analytics and large amounts of data to drive significant business impact, OR:
- Master’s Degree with strong, practical data analytics project experience or relevant internships
- Proficiency with R and other statistical programming languages
- Experience in programming languages like Python or SQL
- Strong experience with Excel in particular advanced formula creation, data cleaning, and pivot tables
- Strong academic grounding in a range of data science concepts, particularly machine learning and natural language processing
- Hands-on experience in statistical analysis, machine learning, factor/cluster/regression analysis, and/or classification algorithms
- Hands-on experience with predictive modeling techniques such as multivariate regression, logistic regression, time series, neural network, support vector machine, and random forest
- Hands-on experience with data visualization platforms (such as Tableau, Looker, QuickSight, or Power BI)
- Understanding of how to apply data analysis to communications, marketing, and business strategy problems
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; able to communicate complex data problems with clarity
- Able to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, under pressure, with outstanding attention to detail
- Love working in a fast-paced, startup environment full of complexity, ambiguity and change
Additional Information
Protagonist is a values-driven company that is committed to doing meaningful work for organizations we respect. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, and offer a competitive salary, flexible paid time-off policy, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and a retirement plan.
Protagonist is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Salary Range: $70,000-$100,000 based on education and level of relevant experience.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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What We Do
Protagonist is the Narrative Analytics company. We uncover deeply held beliefs (narratives) in order to energize brands, win competitive battles, and better engage and understand target audiences. Protagonist uses natural language processing, machine learning, and deep human expertise to gather and analyze billions of pieces relevant data to give customers the insights they need for marketing, product development, and communications strategies. The Protagonist platform was built on 10 years of narrative science that was initially developed to improve the American brand around the world for the US Government. Today, it's used by dozens of the world's leading CMOs, business leaders, and foundations
