Research Producer

About CCI

The Center for Campaign Innovation is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that helps conservative campaigners compete through better technology and data-driven strategy. We publish original research, run field experiments in partnership with allied organizations, and produce the Digital Readiness assessment — a benchmarking tool that scores campaigns on their digital fundamentals. Our work is cited by national media and used by committees, PACs, campaigns, and consultants to improve how they run.

We also operate Campaign Trend, a content platform that includes a weekly Best Practice article, the Campaign Trend Podcast, and a newsletter reaching thousands of campaign professionals.

The Role

We’re hiring a Research Producer to work directly with the Executive Director across the full range of CCI’s output — from data analysis to published content. This is not a siloed research position or a siloed content position. It sits at the intersection of both, and it exists because our most important work requires someone who can move fluently between pulling data, designing experiments, writing clearly, and shipping finished products on a weekly cadence.

The right person will take rough ideas and turn them into polished articles, take raw data and turn it into actionable reports, and take experiment designs from concept to analysis. You’ll be the second set of hands on everything CCI publishes and the analytical backbone behind our partnerships.

What You’ll Do

Research & Analysis

• Pull and process data for Digital Readiness scores across federal and state races, producing quarterly reports and one-off assessments for partners
• Support the design, execution, and analysis of field experiments
• Monitor and synthesize political science research relevant to campaign technology, voter contact, and digital strategy
• Assist with post-election polling analysis and report production

Content Production

• Draft weekly Best Practice articles from outlines or topic briefs provided by the Executive Director
• Compile and produce the Campaign Trend Rundown newsletter each week, including sourcing links, writing excerpts, and scheduling distribution
• Produce supporting content for podcasts, including blog posts, email copy, social media promotion, and video clips
• Draft and schedule social media content promoting CCI research and Campaign Trend content
• Support longer-form projects including research reports

Operations

• Maintain the content production calendar and ensure weekly deliverables ship on time
• Turn research findings into content and content engagement into partnership leads

Who You Are

• 2–4 years of experience in political data, campaign analytics, research, or political media production
• Comfortable with data: you can pull numbers from a dashboard, run basic statistical analysis, and build a clean chart without hand-holding
• A clear, efficient writer who can produce publication-ready copy that doesn’t read like a committee wrote it
• Familiar with the conservative political ecosystem
• Able to manage a weekly production cadence with multiple concurrent deliverables without dropping things
• Experience with some combination of: Google Sheets/Excel, podcast editing (Descript, Riverside, or similar), social media scheduling tools, email marketing platforms (Ghost, ConvertKit, or similar), and basic data visualization

Bonus Points

• Background in political science, public policy, or a quantitative social science
• Experience at a campaign committee, IE, or political research organization
• Familiarity with AI tools and willingness to use them as part of daily workflows
• Past work with field experiments, A/B testing, or program evaluation

Compensation

Open to structuring as full-time or as a contract engagement for the right candidate. Candidates in the DC area will have more opportunities for in-person collaboration.