YouGov America is hiring a data journalist for its U.S. News team, which conducts and publishes polls on topics of public interest.

Survey research experience is highly valued, as are skills in journalism, writing, data science, and data visualization.

We welcome candidates who want to grow in the role, and encourage applications from candidates who are members of traditionally underrepresented communities.

Remote job.

To apply, please visit:

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/YouGov1/743999911864069?trid=aa693c38-1e61-49d8-ad06-09c4623c7dcb

I'm the hiring manager and the role will report to me. Please email me with any questions at carl.bialik@yougov.com.

Job Description

The Role

The role brings together survey design, data science, data visualization, programming, and writing to create and share public opinion data of interest to the public. Topics include breaking news, policy, culture, entertainment, sports — and, particularly in the next year and a half, politics and the presidential election.

Bring together the best of survey science, data science, and journalism to share important findings on public opinion with the world. Dream up, field, analyze, and publish a poll within 24 hours.

Work with leading researchers to create surveys and run experiments. Access a trove of opinion data and create new data by writing new poll questions. Analyze the results with cutting-edge opinion-data tools, and work alongside colleagues with experience in R. Collaborate with colleagues across the world and partners at top media organizations — including the Economist and Yahoo News — to publish articles and data visualizations on how Americans act and think, at today.yougov.com and @YouGovAmerica.

This is a remote based role within the US

What You Will Be Doing

• Brainstorming topics to poll
• Closely following news and commentary
• Crafting clear, concise, fair survey questions
• Writing about survey results for YouGov’s U.S. News website
• Conceiving of and creating effective data visualizations
• Analyzing poll data, including in programming languages such as R
• Collaborating with colleagues and media partners
• Contributing to the distribution of findings through social media and other platforms

Qualifications

Required

• An interest in growing on the job in survey research, data science, and journalism
• Commitment to rigor and accuracy
• Comfort with collaborating, editing, and being edited
• Creativity, empathy, imagination, and an orientation toward teamwork

Important

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every item on this list. We welcome candidates who want to grow in the role.

• Professional experience and/or an advanced degree in survey research or a related field (such as political science, psychology, sociology, statistics, or communications)
• Experience writing and fielding surveys
• Experience with creating data visualizations
• Experience writing for a public audience
• Interest in and knowledge of current events, politics, and elections

Nice to have

• Professional experience and/or advanced degree in data science
• Experience with content management systems
• Experience writing and distributing newsletters
• Experience with social media and related tools such as Oktopost
• An understanding of statistics, weighting, and sampling methodology