Principal Analyst (Evergreen)

Interested in joining Blue State’s Analytics team? Submit an application so you can be considered when a role becomes available. Please note: this is an “evergreen” job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren’t ongoing, we’re excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State’s mission.

If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; LinkedIn does not differentiate, but we prefer to.

What to know

As Principal Analyst, you serve as Analytics Lead and subject matter expert on projects and retainers. You are highly adept at using data, statistics, strategic insights, and your knowledge of data management, data warehousing, and digital channels—including CRM, email, media (both paid and owned)—to reach clients’ goals. You are expected to work on complex accounts with ambitious goals and, at times, ambiguous challenges, and to meet those challenges with innovative solutions and deliverables.

You provide coaching—training new staff, helping to shape and standardize deliverables, and sharing technical knowledge and strategic expertise across the agency as a whole as well as externally.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From UNICEF and Patagonia to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency and has 150+ employees in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Collect and analyze data to serve the needs of your client portfolio, including but not limited to: web traffic and user behavior, email messaging statistics, paid media performance, and social media trends
• Transform your analysis observations into insights and actionable strategic recommendations for fundraising, marketing, and communications programs
• Develop scalable industry best practices, and drive core insights from data to suggest, create, and execute multivariate or A/B tests that drive fundamental improvements
• Work collaboratively with a cross-disciplined team of creative directors, copywriters, designers, strategists, and account managers as a leader in your craft on client engagements
• Plan measurement strategies for key performance indicators, develop and execute testing plans, and monitor existing properties to ensure all tracking and data collection works properly
• Provide strategic leadership on analytics projects and act as the senior expert on analytics, data management, and data fidelity issues
• Develop effective and persuasive presentations, dashboards, and memos demonstrating the value of our work for client teams, business development, and partners
• Knowledge of performance marketing across grassroots fundraising, website strategy, supporter mobilization, customer engagement, and brand strategy
• Stays current on discipline trends and industry standards, identifies new frameworks, tools, platforms, and methodologies, and finds ways to implement them in our work.
• Identifies opportunities to expand our Analytics offerings to meet business needs of clients and potential clients.
• Partners with leaders at Blue State to integrate our services and deliver stronger work.
• Assist with coaching and mentorship of analysts located across offices
• Work with Analytics Team leadership to identify offering, product, and project opportunities
• Promote and cultivate skill development and professional growth of members of the team

The team 

The Analytics team is the backbone of our agency, supporting efforts and people that span web development, email, social media, design, and paid media. This is a team that challenges the status quo and pushes us all to move toward better results, whether that’s money raised or actions taken or perceptions changed. So, if you geek out over data, want to develop groundbreaking digital campaigns that will inspire and affect change, and work with people who are talented and passionate about what they do, then let’s talk!

What we offer

• Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
• $1,250 annually in professional development funds
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible and health savings accounts
• 401K & employer match
• Generous paid holiday schedule
• 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Pre-tax