Principal, Data Insights Focused
Precision · Washington, DC · United States · Hybrid
Pay: USD 85,000 – 105,000 a year
Posted Oct 6, 2026
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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 Principal to join our Data & Analytics team in New York, NY or Washington, D.C. 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 Do:
Client Management
Support and manage day-to-day client workstreams across analysis, monitoring, intelligence, and insights engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs and timely delivery.
Serve as a reliable client contact on assigned accounts, communicate clearly, anticipate needs, and escalate complex challenges to senior leadership with context and recommended solutions.
Follow Precision client management processes. Help ensure the team is delivering high-quality work within scope and budget.
Data & Intelligence
Contribute to social listening and digital intelligence workstreams — help synthesize monitoring data into clear, compelling insights that inform client strategy and communications activations.
Assist 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.
Support 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.
Execute reputation analysis and monitoring workflows, track client reputational landscapes in real time and flag emerging issues with speed and precision.
Produce 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.
Collaboration & People Management
Work cross-functionally with strategic communications, creative, and paid media teams to ensure data and intelligence outputs are integrated into broader client campaigns.
Support junior staff through day-to-day guidance, feedback, and task delegation;…