Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Verasight is seeking a Data Scientist to expand its capacity to field high-quality surveys for clients. The role applies and extends the company’s code base to support rigorous, replicable data collection, analysis, quality control, and reporting, while contributing to survey research methods and automation.
Responsibilities
- Leverage Verasight’s data pipelines and processing procedures to own the data collection and quality process from end to end, including: building contact lists and sampling frames, monitoring survey fielding, cleaning and analyzing survey response data, writing methodology documentation, and preparing client deliverables
- Manage multiple simultaneous projects throughout all stages of the project life cycle, identifying potential roadblocks early and proactively proposing solutions
- Contribute, in collaboration with the Verasight team, innovative methods of automation and expand the data science team “toolbox” to suit a wide variety of data needs
- Conduct internal experimentation and research to hone Verasight’s approach to survey research
- Bring a creative and solutions-oriented mindset
Skills
- Experience coding in R, including writing custom functions, package development, REST API integration, and writing reusable and well documented code
- Enthusiasm for bringing AI tools (such as Claude Code) to survey research
- Knowledge of quantitative survey research methodologies, statistical concepts, and the ability to apply them to solve novel problems
- Innovative, independent mindset and a willingness to learn new technical and statistical skills when needed to tackle emerging challenges
- Strong communication skills to suit a highly-collaborative fast-paced remote work environment
- Experience managing multiple ongoing projects with competing deadlines
- Commitment to working in an inclusive environment
- Experience with commonly used survey software platforms, such as Qualtrics
- Familiarity with GitHub for collaborative code development
- Practical experience using voter file data (e.g., L2, Catalist, TargetSmart)
- Knowledge of survey weighting practices, including population benchmark data (e.g., Census) and poststratification techniques (e.g., raking)
- Experience writing SQL
- Familiarity with JavaScript
- 2+ years of survey or social science research experience
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401k with company matching
- Opportunity to travel to represent Verasight at conferences
- Gain experience working directly with government agencies, nonprofits, academic researchers, and corporations
- Remote work
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