Senior Data Scientist

Full-time •  Competitive Pay • Excellent Benefits • Work From Anywhere in the Continental U.S. 

Applications Due by October 17, 2025

MoveOn is a people-powered force for progress. We wield independent political power by bringing millions together to take action to create a country with a place of honor and dignity for everyone—where all are welcome, we take care of one another, and where everyone is set up to thrive.

For more than a generation, MoveOn has been a bulwark against the radical right and has channeled millions of voices to end wars, protect democracy, and advance justice for all. We've built political power for progressive change through mobilizing the left to Democrats so that we can advance our vision of an America for all.

MoveOn is the largest multi-issue digital first political campaigning organization in the country. We drive rapid-response campaigns at scale on a multitude of key issues at high-impact moments while building sustainable campaigns that resonate and grow over time. Whether its democracy, health care, foreign policy, economic justice, immigration or otherwise, MoveOn provides our members with timely ways to take action for change.

At MoveOn, the Senior Data Scientist plays a key role in advancing progressive change through data-driven strategy and innovation. This role combines rigorous quantitative analysis with creative problem solving to help shape campaigns, optimize member engagement, and empower millions of members to take action. The Senior Data Scientist partners with campaigners, engineers, and organizers to design experiments, build predictive and causal models, and translate complex data into actionable insights. They also help steward MoveOn’s data infrastructure, improve measurement frameworks, and promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging data to provide actionable insights and recommendations to help guide decision making across projects and teams.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders on projects to identify new analytics opportunities
• Working closely with stakeholders to pull audiences for fundraising solicitations and online ads
• Designing and executing experiments to make MoveOn’s digital and offline work more effective.
• Extracting meaning from large data sets generated by our work.
• Innovating new tools and approaches to using data in political campaigning.

To be a successful candidate, you will:

• Bring deep technical expertise in data science and a passion for using data to advance progressive change.
• Design, build, and interpret models that help MoveOn understand, engage, and mobilize millions of members.
• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights that inform strategic decisions across campaigns, fundraising, and member engagement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with campaigners, engineers, and analysts to develop experiments, optimize outreach, and evaluate impact.
• Balance rigor and pragmatism—knowing when to apply advanced statistical or machine learning techniques and when a simple, transparent approach is best.
• Champion best practices in data ethics, privacy, and responsible modeling.
• Contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning within the Analytics and Tech teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a data scientist, preferably in the political space
• High-level proficiency querying relational databases with SQL (we use Redshift)
• A deep understanding of modern data science techniques and proficiency with the Python data science stack.
• Experience deploying machine learning models at scale.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven ability to translate real-world challenges into analytics problems, solve them, and translate them back into real-world solutions.

Reports to: Managing Director of Analytics

Location: Position may be based anywhere in the continental United States. May require occasional travel.  

Salary and Benefits: At MoveOn, we commit to equity in our compensation philosophy and practices. We are committed to equal pay for equal work. To counter systemic compensation issues in this country and pay inequality, we have a nonnegotiable compensation practice. We utilize benchmarking and peer organization data to ensure we provide competitive nonprofit compensation and benefits. The annual salary for this position is $150,803.19. In addition to the base salary, we offer a monthly home office subsidy. We also offer an internet and phone subsidy of $2,100 annually and a health and wellness subsidy of $900 annually. All of these cash benefits are added to your bimonthly paycheck. We offer strong medical, dental, and vision benefits, which are free to employees and children of employees (spouses or domestic partners can be added at a subsidized rate). We offer employer-paid premiums for life insurance; four weeks accrued paid vacation time per year, prorated for the period that you work; 18 weeks of paid parental leave (birth, adoption, foster care placement of a child), 10 days accrued paid sick time prorated for the period that you work; paid family medical leave; and 8 staff holidays and 6 floating holidays (annually). We also offer a $1000 in professional development budget each year for each staff member.

MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.