Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.

Founded in 2020, Democracy Docket is the leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.

Tracking election and democracy litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law, and more — also play out in Congress, in the administration, and in states around the country. Through our comprehensive coverage, we’re committed to the fight to protect and strengthen U.S. democracy at a time when it faces grave dangers.

Job Overview

Democracy Docket is seeking a Marketing Data & Automation Analyst to be the technical backbone of our newsletter program, the core foundation to our subscription-driven business. By building back-end systems to support the lifecycle of 400,000 subscribers — including 60,000 paid members — this role is essential for our direct-to-consumer subscription strategy.

The Marketing Data & Automation Manager will leverage our tech stack — primarily HubSpot — to optimize growth and retention functions, streamline full-funnel strategies and analyze data to drive performance. This is a hands-on, technical role responsible for managing the backend systems that power our subscriber growth engine.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working with large datasets, building multi-step workflows and automations, implementing advanced audience segmentation and developing reports and dashboards to track analytics and inform strategy.

As part of the Subscription & Product Team, this role will collaborate closely with the Newsletter and Growth Specialist and the Audience Growth Team. This is an exciting opportunity to combine technical expertise with strategic and analytical thinking, directly influencing the growth and success of our fast-growing subscription-based newsroom.

This role reports into the Senior Growth Manager.

Key Responsibilities

Oversee the backend design, development, and management of automated lifecycle journeys, including welcome series, engagement campaigns, renewal reminders and post-renewal communications

Manage subscriber database and infrastructure to ensure clean and accurate data for campaigns and workflows

Design and build custom workflows to support business initiatives in close collaboration with the Subscription & Product Team

Monitor and maintain email health, including deliverability, engagement metrics, and list hygiene

Build reports and dashboards to track KPIs and provide insights to inform retention and engagement strategies

Troubleshoot technical issues and optimize backend systems for reliability and performance

Collaborate across teams to translate business goals into scalable automated solutions

Required Qualifications

At least 5 years of experience with CRM and ESP platforms ideally in a subscription-based news or media company

Experience using HubSpot strongly preferred

Advanced technical expertise building automated journeys and workflows, forms and pipelines

High comfort mapping and organizing data properties and owning audience segmentation and logic

Proactive, detail-oriented problem solver with strong organizational skills and willingness to adapt to new features and platforms

Proficient in analyzing qualitative and quantitative data and synthesizing findings

Experience designing and building comprehensive audience surveys to inform future strategies

Strong understanding of email deliverability and list maintenance best practices

Ability to learn audience quickly and lead customer communications with empathy and care

Passion for politics, news and/or voting rights and democracy