Premise

We all know every decision should be driven by data. But what about the data you don’t know? For years, the status quo in data-driven insights has lacked visibility, moved slowly, and cost too much. Leaving organizations to make critical decisions, day after day, without the whole picture. Premise changes that.

Across 140 countries and counting, our marketplace connects communities of global smartphone users to source actionable data in real-time, cost- effectively, and with the visibility needed by leaders in some of the largest organizations on earth. 

With Premise, organizations win. And communities win, too. People can earn more from their opinions and discoveries. They can influence their cities for the better. And, unlike other data sourcing methods out there, they can do it all with full transparency that the data they’re gathering is going to an organization that values it, and values them.

Position Summary

Our international development team is growing rapidly, and we’re searching for a Data Analytics Manager to begin work immediately in Washington, DC or Remote. This position will support a large, USAID-funded, monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) contract 50% of the time and a major UNICEF country office 50% of the time. 

This position is responsible for helping generate new data collection efforts, surfacing insights from our data and packaging them in a range of deliverables, so our customers can make better, more impactful decisions and optimize their operations. You will be integrated directly into the customers’ organization, interfacing with them to understand their objectives, work plan, and collection requirements and translating them into actionable tasks for our Contributors to complete. You will work closely with our Data Acquisition and Methodology teams to analyze/package the data in a range of meaningful, recurring deliverables – anything from dashboards and charts to slide decks and reports. Ideally, you will leverage your expertise and experience with 3rd party monitoring of humanitarian assistance interventions to identify opportunities for Premise to increase the speed, scale, and actionability of such data collection. You will also serve as a critical feedback loop in the development of Premise’s Remote Monitoring solution. 

What You Will Do

• You’ll work on the International Development team but coordinate cross-functionally with a group of analysts, methodologists, data scientists, and developers who are responsible for turning our raw data into the insights our customers need to make faster, more effective decisions. Responsibilities include:
• Engage end users to understand collection requirements and goals
• Work with the customer and the broader team to establish commonly understood data collection goals, needs, and methods, as well as ultimate deliverables 
• Engage closely with the customer to understand the key questions they need answers to and translate those into a range of non-sensitive tasks (via surveys, observations, and/or access to syndicated datasets)
• Speak knowledgeably and credibly about Premise technology, engaging the customer at multiple levels to recognize the impact of our data and identify new collection and upsell opportunities 
• Build customer-facing deliverables and/or visualizations
• Work with the Data Acquisition and Methodology teams to build data collection mechanisms, evaluate early submissions, and monitor overall progress
• Work with Client Analytics team to build interactive dashboards and create ongoing reports and analyses
• Critically evaluate customer data and refine collection strategies
• Perform ongoing analysis of data to uncover issues related to quality, consistency, and/or comprehension of questions and tasks
• Highlight key insights using statistics and other analytically rigorous tools, packaging them for end users in easily digestible language and formats
• Recommend concrete suggestions for improvement and work with other teams to implement, tracking their impact and utility over time
• Translate research and requirements into recurring products
• Work with Product and Data Science teams to prototype new products and capabilities based on your research and/or customer requirements
• Support these teams’ efforts to improve existing data products to better meet customer requirements and/or increase data subscriptions/collection requests

What You Bring Along

• Familiarity with USAID and USAID/BHA’s MERL contracts or very similar learning and analysis contracts. Candidates without will not be considered.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent formal military or equivalent training, in addition to at least 5 years of full-time professional experience
• Experience taking complex, imperfect collection goals/questions and identifying insights of interest from a large amount of data, using a range of analytical tools and techniques in support of operations (minimum 2 years)
• Ability to work both collaboratively with a cross-functional team spread across multiple time zones and independently as an onsite ambassador, displaying critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills to achieve customer goals
• Experience working with Looker, Tableau or some other data visualization platform (minimum 3 years)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to break down, explain, and demonstrate complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner to multiple levels of management (both internal and external)
• Professional working proficiency in French is a bonus.

What You Get

• Competitive compensation and 401k plans
• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage for you and your family
• Access to Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Savings Accounts
• Generous PTO + paid holidays
• Opportunities for equity shares
• Dependent-care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter transit and parking subsidies
• Daily lunch and snacks on-site