Data Engineer, theSkimm
$125-135k
Female-focussed news and lifestyle website
Job no longer available
Female-focussed news and lifestyle website
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$125-135k
101-200 employees
Company mission
TheSkimm's mission is to succinctly give women the information they need to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of industry experience measuring product performance and user behavior
- Experience working with a variety of data management technologies, including RedShift, Kinesis/Kafka, Glue, Spark, Postgres, Airflow, dbt, and others
- Experience implementing BI reporting tools such as Looker
- Experience interfacing with engineers, product managers and analysts to understand data needs
- Knowledge of a variety of measurement beacons, SDKs, APIs including Google Analytics, Amplitude, Braze, Stripe, email service providers
- A commitment to building secure, resilient, fault-tolerant architectures, with clear documentation and procedures in place for support
- A focus on accuracy and detail as you build, ensuring data pipelines produce clear, predictable results
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
- Facility in presenting and discussing the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
- An empathetic leadership style that encourages open communication and trust
- Understanding of the typical metrics a subscription and advertising-supported business needs to measure success
- Experience with ML techniques as applied to behavioral segmentation or anomaly identification is a plus
- Familiarity using developer tools that increase productivity and facilitate the development of resilient code (eg. Docker, CircleCI, Serverless) is a plus
- Familiarity and enthusiasm for theSkimm: a passion for our audience and mission is a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer and mentor to join theSkimm's Tech team
- You'll be responsible for working alongside analysts, product, marketing, and other teams to define new data collection components and measurement schemes that support each new product and feature
- Create and maintain data pipelines to provide insights and drive business decisions
- Establish theSkimm’s data warehousing strategy (ex. Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
- Maintain theSkimm’s data infrastructure on our AWS accounts
- Collaborates with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization
- Write unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work
- Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it
Our take
The rapid growth of the internet has given rise to unprecedented access to online information, but this has not been entirely positive. The sheer mass of competing news websites has led to politically-charged, inaccurate, and sensationalist media publishings becoming commonplace. Yet, the demand for feminist and non-partisan news that truly contributes to daily life is higher than ever.
TheSkimm provides a female-focused news and lifestyle website, publishing content regarding the latest news, financial advice, mental wellness tips, and other lifestyle content. The company differentiates itself from competitors by ensuring all information provided is genuinely helpful to the daily lives of women, achieved by checking that each piece is well researched, transparent, and without political motivations.
Whilst the company will face fierce competition from other female-focused content sites, TheSkimm has recognized that many such sites are tabloids, compromising the validity and usefulness of contained information. Through its focus on accurate publishing and content value, the company hopes to enrich the lives of women by ensuring that they always have the information to make life decisions comfortably.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2019
$12m
SERIES C
May 2018
$12m
SERIES C
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy and generous holiday observances
- A hybrid working model with flexibility for remote work
- Comprehensive insurance plans and commuter benefits
- Auto-enrollment into a MassMutual 401(k) plan starting on your first day and employer contribution available after one year of employment
- Rewards for every work anniversary
- One month paid sabbatical after your five year anniversary as a full-time employee
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave (adoption, fostering and surrogacy included)
- Bereavement leave for pregnancy loss
- Phased return to work schedule availability
- Flexibility based on parental schedules
- Access to family building and fertility benefits
- Flexible and broad-scale child support program
- We honor Sacred Time in our workplace
- We have aligned company “time off” during the summer to truly allow for us all to break from our work at the same time
- We offer fitness membership reimbursement
- One Medical Membership is included with our benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Complimentary access to theSkimm’s suite of membership products and swag
- The opportunity to be part of a values-driven, hardworking, and diverse group of people building a media company that makes it easier to live smarter
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Carly Zakin
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Associate Producer of Sirens Media and NBC Peacock Productions. Founder and Head Consultant of HigherWrite since 2011.
Danielle Weisberg
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Assistant Editor for The Daily Beast. Associate Producer for NBC News from 2010 to 2012.
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