Data Analytics Manager, Elections

Elections Data & Analytics

• 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.
• Monitor real-time election results and provide rapid analysis during breaking news and election-night coverage.
• 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.
• Rigorously test election systems, including graphical, data visualization, and touchscreen software.

Editorial Storytelling & Audience Insights

• 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.
• Collaborate with producers, reporters, and editors to integrate analytics into daily and long-form political coverage.
• Support newsroom teams with polling interpretation and best practices for reporting election data responsibly and accurately.

AI & Innovation

• 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.
• Help identify emerging technologies and analytical approaches that strengthen elections coverage and storytelling.

Vendor & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with vote count and polling vendors to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with editorial, research, operations, graphics, and engineering teams across platforms.
• Absorb support in maintaining standards and workflows for election data ingestion, validation, and presentation.
• Support future partnerships and initiatives related to elections, polling, and audience analytics.