Principal/AVP, Data Insights Focused

Precision is an award-winning integrated strategy and marketing agency based in Washington, DC and New York, NY. Powered by data, we bring world-class experts in each of our service areas to conceive, develop, and run campaigns that help our clients seize opportunities and solve their biggest challenges. We're at the center of today's biggest debates and defining moments, inside the Beltway, across New York's media and financial worlds, and in state capitals across the country. Our work sits at the intersection of politics, business, and culture, helping leaders and organizations make an impact when it matters most. We hire people who are the best at what they do, and who like to have fun doing it; we don't just break through. We break new ground.

Our team is seeking a Manager or Senior Manager to join our Data & Analytics team in New York, NY or Washington, DC. This is an exciting opportunity for a sharp, curious intelligence professional to do some of the most interesting data and insights work in the industry — helping translate social listening, reputation monitoring, and AI-powered analysis into communications strategy for some of the world's most influential organizations.

What You Will Be Doing:

Client Management

• Supports and manages day-to-day client workstreams across analysis, monitoring, intelligence, and insights engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs and timely delivery.
• Serves as a reliable client contact on assigned accounts, communicates clearly, anticipates needs, and escalates complex challenges to senior leadership with context and recommended solutions.
• Follows Precision client management processes. Helps ensure the team is delivering high-quality work within scope and budget.

Collaboration & People Management

• Works cross-functionally with strategic communications, creative, and paid media teams to ensure data and intelligence outputs are integrated into broader client campaigns.
• Supports junior staff through day-to-day guidance, feedback, and task delegation; contributes to a collaborative, high-performance team culture.
• Keeps internal teams informed of relevant developments on assigned accounts; participates actively in internal meetings and contributes to knowledge-sharing across the data practice.

Project & Time Management

• Manages multiple workstreams simultaneously with strong attention to detail and follow-through. Proactively flags timeline risks, tracks deliverables, and keeps projects moving with limited oversight.

Strategy

• Brings a strategic lens to intelligence and insights work — going beyond data delivery to offer thoughtful analysis and recommendations that drive client outcomes.
• Stays current on trends in social listening, GEO, AI-driven discovery, and reputation management; brings new ideas and approaches to the team and helps elevate the quality of Precision's outputs.

Business Development

• Supports pitches and new business presentations by contributing research, insights, and data-driven narratives; identifies opportunities to expand existing client relationships through new ideas and proactive thinking.

Data & Intelligence Specific

• Contributes to social listening and digital intelligence workstreams — helping synthesize monitoring data into clear, compelling insights that inform client strategy and communications activations.
• Supports the delivery of terrAIn, Precision's proprietary Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) offering, helping package and communicate GEO findings in ways that are accessible, strategic, and relevant to client priorities.
• Executes reputation analysis and monitoring workflows, tracking client reputational landscapes in real time and flagging emerging issues with speed and precision.
• Produces strategic insights reports and intelligence briefings that translate data into actionable recommendations, helping clients understand not just what is happening, but what to do about it.
• Assists in managing primary research workstreams from fielding through analysis and reporting, ensuring data quality, timeline adherence, and outputs that tell a compelling and accurate story. 

What We Are Looking For:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in social listening, reputation monitoring, digital intelligence, communications analytics, market research, or related fields. Prior agency experience a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with social and digital listening platforms (e.g. Brandwatch, Meltwater, Sprinklr, or similar) and a demonstrated ability to turn data into strategic communications recommendations.
• Familiarity with the evolving GEO landscape and curiosity about how AI-driven discovery environments affect client reputation and visibility.
• Some experience managing or mentoring junior staff.
• Ability to manage multiple clients and workstreams simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Creative, energetic, and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit.

What We Will Give You:

• Competitive salaries
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Flexible hybrid remote/in office plan
• Retirement plan with automatic 3% safe-harbor contribution from Precision
• Healthcare coverage - medical, dental and vision with 90% of costs covered by Precision
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend

Salary range for this role is $85,000 – $130,000.

We are currently working in a hybrid model and require staff to work in the office 50% of working days per month.

Precision is committed to building a diverse team that will positively and authentically impact the communities we serve. Centering our strategies around the authentic voices and cultures of the communities we are engaging with is paramount to our work – and our work can only be as inclusive as our team is representative. We strongly encourage women, Black, Latino, Hispanic, AAPI, and Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, gender expansive or GNC folks, people of all ages, disabled people, and veterans to apply.