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• Research, draft, and edit compelling grant proposals, letters of inquiry, one-pagers, and other fundraising materials, and track and document all submissions; • Develop accurate, on-time grant reports and other donor communications for current funders, and regularly collect and package relevant impact stories and data; • Support the development pipeline by researching prospects and funders, preparing briefing materials for meetings, and coordinating follow-ups to steward relationships; • Partner with the VP of Growth to develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive annual and multi-year fundraising plan that drives revenue growth and long-term financial sustainability; • Help improve the team's development processes, pipeline tracking, metrics, and reporting, including keeping Funding Partner records current in Salesforce; • Collaborate with the Communications and Marketing team on brand-aligned, donor-facing materials such as one-pagers and pitch decks; • Assist with planning and executing special events and projects, as needed.

• Manage day-to-day HR operations including payroll processing, benefits administration, leave management, and employee lifecycle actions (e.g., onboarding, offboarding, role changes, processing leaves, etc.); • Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations matters, navigating sensitive situations with care, consistency, and sound judgment; • Manage immigration processes for staff, partnering with external counsel as needed; • Maintain accurate employee files, complete I-9 verifications, and support audits and compliance reporting; • Maintain and continuously improve HR data systems and reporting, ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and meaningful insights for decision-making; • Monitor and track changes in employment law, compliance requirements, and HR regulations across all states where Murmuration operates - proactively surfacing implications and driving any necessary updates to policies or practices before they become issues; • Draft and maintain HR policies that are clear, equitable, and aligned with our values and legal obligations; • Support employee engagement efforts (e.g., surveys, programming, etc.); • Identify and close operational gaps - if something is inefficient, unclear, or missing, you spot it and address it; • Partner with the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) steering committee to help embed equitable practices into people systems, policies, and programs. • Design, build, and deliver training for employees and managers, including manager-specific programs that promote inclusive leadership and equitable people practices; • Create practical tools (e.g., guides, templates, facilitation materials, training curricula) that help managers show up well in their roles; • Assess learning needs across the organization and develop programming that is targeted, useful, and grounded in real gaps rather than generic content; • Facilitate training sessions and workshops with confidence in both live and async formats; • Build and maintain an L&D resource library that managers and staff can access on demand; • Track the effectiveness of training programs and iterate based on feedback and outcomes.

• Lead the development of integrated digital and content strategies that support organizational and partner goals; • Conceptualize and oversee cutting-edge digital and media campaigns, including narrative strategy and creative concepts; • Translate strategic objectives into high-impact content across platforms including video, social media, digital advertising, and email; • Lead the development of creative concepts, messaging frameworks, ad scripts, and direct-to-audience communications (including mail where applicable); • Own the end-to-end process for paid media and digital campaigns, from concept to execution to measurement; • Oversee and collaborate closely with digital vendors on paid media strategy, targeting, optimization, and performance reporting; • Establish clear KPIs and performance benchmarks, and communicate results to partners and stakeholders in clear, actionable ways; • Use data and insights to continuously optimize creative and digital strategies; • Manage and support the Creative Manager, providing mentorship, direction, and strategic guidance; • Serve as a key liaison to partner organizations, translating their goals into creative and digital strategies; • Build strong relationships with vendors, consultants, and internal teams to ensure alignment and execution excellence; • Ensure all creative and content reflects Murmuration’s values and strengthens brand identity; • Elevate the quality and impact of storytelling across campaigns and platforms; • Maintain a strong understanding of emerging digital trends, platforms, and technologies to keep campaigns innovative and relevant.

• Lead and execute data science projects, including predictive modeling, algorithm design, and data pipelines; • Develop innovative, industry-leading campaign data science models, specifically partisanship and turnout models; • Independently (and often collaboratively) explore data sets for insights and understanding what can help drive product development and feature prioritization; • Transform data into actionable and compelling insights through analysis and visualization, and then effectively communicate these data-driven stories to internal and external stakeholders through memos and presentations; • Collaborate with the Engineering Team to take data science products and concepts into production; • Provide guidance and mentoring to level-up junior data scientists in both formal and informal learning sessions; • Apply emerging AI technologies to R&D challenges; you’ll prototype novel approaches, evaluate feasibility, and bridge the gap between cutting-edge capabilities and practical usability.

• Drive to General Availability • Shape Explorer's technical future: advise on technical priorities, dependencies, and complexity; propose and defend well-reasoned solutions with clear documentation of tradeoffs and alternatives; • Take a pilot implementation from limited release to general availability, including making early architectural decisions, validating technical assumptions, and iterating toward a scalable design; • Harden experimental systems for production readiness, including reliability, performance, observability, testing, and operational excellence; • Architect for the long term: design and build the systems and architectures that will serve Explorer for years, with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concerns; • Improve and expand the existing code base: reinforce secure coding practices, identify vulnerabilities early, and treat data privacy and access control as first-class concerns; • Drive test strategy, proactively identify and address technical risks, and drive quality improvements at the team level; and • Reduce technical debt, improve system quality, and contribute to objectives that span the broader organization. • Elevate the Team • Resolve ambiguity, navigate requirements that are actively being shaped, and bring structure and clarity without waiting for perfect specs; • Establish best practices for test strategy, code quality, and system design; raise the technical bar across the organization through documentation, advocacy, and role modeling; • Mentor senior engineers and help emerging technical leads build the judgment, ownership, and skills to grow; lead technical discussions, drive design consensus, and model the standards you expect from others; • Be like Ted Lasso: believe, build trust, and demonstrate kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerability. • Lead Beyond Explorer • Set technical direction across teams beyond Explorer; own objectives that span multiple teams and align with division and organizational goals; drive the strategy, planning, decision-making, and execution needed to achieve them; • Lead significant initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems; align technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicate tradeoffs and risks clearly, and represent engineering in cross-organizational discussions and with product and leadership; • Champion secure coding practices at a systemic level, identify vulnerabilities across the product, and treat data privacy and access control as organization-wide concerns; and • Organize and lead incident response, involving the right people and delegating effectively; lead post-incident reviews including root cause analysis and clear prevention action items; follow through until learnings are shared and remediation is complete.

• Steward the Help Center: Create, maintain, and continuously improve knowledge articles in the Help Center. Establish and execute a regular content review cycle to ensure all articles remain accurate, relevant, and easy to use. • Develop training content: Prepare written materials for partner and Partnership Success Manager (PSM) trainings. Collaborate closely with the Manager, Partner and User Training to ensure content aligned with partner needs. Help translate technical words and work into easy to use and understand content. • Write and edit video scripts: Craft clear, engaging scripts for training and product videos. Edit scripts produced by others to ensure alignment with voice, accuracy, and format standards. • Build and enforce a style guide: Develop a comprehensive style guide for all Murmuration-produced content. Own ongoing enforcement of style standards to ensure consistency and quality across every content type. • Review and QA all training content: Serve as a quality control resource across content produced by the team, reviewing for clarity, accuracy, consistency, and adherence to style guidelines. • Improve knowledge operations: Proactively identify gaps, redundancies, or inefficiencies in how knowledge is organized and surfaced. Recommend and implement improvements to tools, workflows, and content architecture.

• Establish and manage the operational processes to identify, evaluate, and source datasets that support Murmuration’s civic engagement partners across organizing, advocacy, and electoral campaigns; • Create and perform validation and quality checks on newly acquired datasets, including schema review, field-level analysis, completeness checks, and anomaly detection; • Clean, standardize, and prepare external datasets for integration into Murmuration systems using SQL and scripting tools; • Collaborate with internal teams (i.e., Data Success, Partner Success, and Research) to understand data gaps and recommend appropriate sourcing strategies; • Monitor ongoing data quality for sourced datasets and proactively flag degradation, inconsistencies, or compliance concerns; • Establish, implement, and share internal processes for dataset evaluation, vendor onboarding, and quality assurance; • As new datasets are collected, develop and maintain the necessary documentation and training for internal teams on how to use and understand these datasets; • When responsibilities allow, taking an active role in partners' data success by supporting their campaign activities and work in the Organizer platform.

At Murmuration, we believe that America’s promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other.  We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: we organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners’ capacity to lead change in their communities. We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy, free, and dignified lives. We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on — how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems — so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone.  We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America — together. We’ve built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly — rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other’s wins. About the Position You're a mission-driven data engineer with a track record of building infrastructure that delivers real impact. You're deeply curious not just about how systems work but about the messy, real-world data they must support. You've done this before: you understand what "good" looks like, you deliver high quality solutions, and you help the teams around you operate more effectively. At Murmuration, you'll work with voter files from 50 states (each with its own format and quirks), census data, polling results, geographic boundaries, election returns, and more. These data sources arrive at different cadences, anywhere from multiple times a day during early voting to once a year from the census. Your role is to bring order to this complexity by building the pipelines, data contracts, and governance that transform these disparate inputs into Atlas, our unified representation of American civic life. This role is for someone who's energized by complex data problems, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by the understanding that strong infrastructure and data foundations is a core part of what makes research, product development, and meaningful civic impact possible. You'll partner closely with data scientists, researchers, and product teams who rely on what you build. You also stay curious about emergent technologies, particularly AI, and apply them thoughtfully to amplify your impact and the effectiveness of the broader team. Job Level P4 What You'll Do - Own data pipelines and infrastructure: Design, implement, and evolve scalable, production-grade systems using tools such as Dagster, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS, MongoDB, and dbt. Apply a cloud-native and DevOps mindset using CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and automated testing to build reliable systems. Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet both immediate product needs and long-term organizational strategy. - Lead data ingestion and integration: Bring in complex, high-volume datasets while ensuring strong data contracts, freshness, quality, integrity, and lineage, and build systems that empower domain experts to contribute to and maintain their own data pipelines. - Transform raw data into trusted data products: Convert raw inputs into structured, usable datasets  that empower our analytical and product teams. Collaborate closely with operational data managers to ensure data models and intuitive, reliable alignment with how data is consumed in practice. - Leverage AI: Make informed judgement calls about how AI can be a force-multiplier for both your own work and the team’s and how it can’t. - Elevate the team: Mentor engineers, actively shape technical direction through architectural reviews and roadmap planning, and build team culture through documentation and knowledge sharing.

• Rapidly develop a comprehensive understanding of our entire data platform (its architecture, data flows, business logic, and system interdependencies) to serve as the foundation for a testing strategy; • Work with our application QA Engineering Team to understand our existing testing strategy and tools; this will help you identify how you can fill the gaps in data testing; • Design, architect, and lead the implementation of an integration testing framework for the Organizer application's streaming data platform, ensuring it is complementary to existing infrastructure; • Design automated validations that query and compare data across multiple storage systems (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Pinot) to ensure end-to-end data correctness; • Embed automated tests within CI/CD pipelines to establish regression baselines and continuously validate new feature development; • Design tests that rigorously account for eventual consistency, asynchronous processing, and time-based behaviors inherent to distributed systems; • Define and own the long-term quality and testing strategy for the data platform, aligning it with organizational reliability, observability, and engineering excellence goals; • Evaluate, select, and integrate tools, frameworks, and technologies to advance automation and data validation capabilities across the organization; • Implement automated performance and throughput benchmarks for critical pipeline components and own the standards by which results are evaluated; • Participate in engineering design reviews with a quality-first lens, ensuring testability, observability, and data correctness are built into systems from the start; • Proactively identify, investigate, and drive resolution of data quality issues and systemic reliability risks; collaborate with data engineers to implement fixes and preventative measures; • Lead post-incident reviews for data quality events: authoring clear timelines, facilitating root cause analysis, and driving follow-through on remediation action items; • Mentor engineers across the data platform and QA teams, establishing testing best practices and elevating the team's overall quality culture; • Represent the data platform's quality posture in cross-functional technical discussions and influence engineering standards across teams.

• Serve as the primary project manager for multiple, high-stakes campaigns, ensuring seamless coordination, precise execution, and transparent communication across all internal and external stakeholders; • Design, implement, and rigorously manage detailed campaign plans and timelines. This includes developing clear meeting agendas, capturing comprehensive notes, and executing proactive follow-up to ensure all campaigns and engagements are driven to successful, on-time completion; • Serve as the key operational contact for all external partners, expertly managing inbound inquiries and communication flow; • Provide strategic, trusted support and counsel to a diverse set of stakeholders—from grassroots student and family advocates to C-suite and senior organizational leaders—to maximize campaign effectiveness and partnership health; • Establish and maintain project management tools and templates to drive organizational efficiency and consistency; • Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate potential risks and roadblocks that could jeopardize campaign timelines or outcomes; • Track, measure, and report on overall project health, presenting regular status updates to leadership; • Facilitate cross-functional retrospectives and post-campaign analysis to capture lessons learned and continuously improve future campaign strategy and execution; • Manage budget tracking and vendor contracts.