Data analyst experience

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

About The Role

As part of the Data and Insights Group (DIG), you will join a large community of accomplished analysts who partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and PMO teams across the business. You will support the Subscriber Experience Mission, focused on delivering insights alongside product and feature development that bring the News to our readers. You will work directly with company partners to help us understand and work on opportunities to engage millions of users with NYT journalism through product plans across different platforms. You will report to our Director, Data and Insights, Subscriber Experiences. This is a hybrid position based in New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• You will write SQL to pipeline and analyze big data
• You will apply analytical reasoning to create data-oriented analyses to be presented to high-level partners in slide decks and memos to guide team strategy
• You will develop best practices for experiment design, including advising on hypothesis generation, sample size, and counter metrics
• You will democratize data and insights through skillful data structuring and use of visualization tools
• You will participate in and sometimes lead all phases of analytic work: from problem definition to representation of results
• You will work with company partners to understand our performance and develop data-driven solutions
• You will demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience working with data teams to deliver analysis or a quantitative degree or certification.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases
• 1+ years of experience with data visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau, or Looker
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in Python or R
• 1+ years of experience with dbt
• Familiarity with Google BigQuery, AWS, or other big data environments
• Comfort with version control (Github)
• 1+ years of experience A/B testing or applying statistics to strategic problems
  
  

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$88,000 - $95,000 USD

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