Research Assistant / Associate

Description
Early-career role for someone passionate about social media and interested in developing their capacity for research and data analysis.

About Magnitude Media
Magnitude Media is a new kind of communications organization dedicated to winning the battle for attention, emotion and meaning. We are building infrastructure to align and scale voices on the left so they can break through today’s fragmented media landscape. Our partners include elected officials, influential creators, and cutting-edge digital media organizations. We monitor emerging narratives, convene aligned messengers, and train leaders to show up where Americans actually consume content. Our work is year-round, data-driven, and designed to help the Left stop reacting and start shaping the conversations that matter.

Position Summary
We are seeking a strategic, mission-driven Research Assistant or Research Associate in the Monitoring Hub at Magnitude Media to help develop our daily newsletter, What’s Resonating, expand the list of social listening accounts we track, and deliver insights for public audiences and partners about emerging trends and narratives in political social media.

This is an early-career role for someone who is passionate about social media and politics and interested in developing their capacity for research and data analysis. This position reports to the Director of Analytics, Digital Monitoring.

Responsibilities
Newsletter Support

• Conduct daily reviews of top social media posts, summarizing and identifying key narrative themes or best practices for left-leaning social media practitioners.
• Collaboratively and independently write memo-style insights and regular, deeper-dive analyses about social media trends.
• Provide additional editorial support for the daily newsletter and other analytics products.

Social Media Mapping

• Support the expansion of the team’s social listening infrastructure, including adding new social media accounts to track and developing criteria for classification, processes for maintaining the account mapping, and quality control checks.
• Conduct qualitative platform research, basic network analysis, and guided research to identify emerging online trends and figures relevant to current political and cultural conversations online.

Landscape Monitoring and Insights

• Work with the Director of Analytics and our Convening Hub to identify potential narrative opportunities on social media for our partners to act on.
• Provide qualitative contextual analysis and interpretations of data to offer insights related to emerging narratives, changes in platform algorithms, fast-rising pages, or new high-performing types of content.
• Help to develop and deploy a system to identify emerging topics and relevant narratives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 0 to 2 years relevant work experience for the Research Assistant position, 2 to 3 years relevant work experience for the Research Associate position.
• Strong interest in the overlap between social media, culture, and politics, with a particular interest in following the news cycle.
• Strong written communication skills with a preference to applicants with experience writing about social media and/or editorial experience.
• The desire to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing start-up environment producing a public-facing product.
• Experience with SQL or a strong commitment to learn it on the job.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to juggle multiple projects and turn around products on a tight timeline.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in presenting quantitative insights.
• A commitment to building a positive team environment, collaborating, and developing new skills as needed.

Compensation & Benefits
Magnitude Media offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance.

• Salary Range (Assistant): $60,000 – $70,000
• Salary Range (Associate): $70,000 – $80,000
• Health Care: 100% coverage of employee premium costs
• Retirement: 401(k) with match
• Policy: Full-remote work policy and various flexible leave policies including sick, vacation, and parental leave.

Applicants can apply at this link.