Growth Engineer, Coast

• Have nose for data - trends, correlations, statistical significance, outliers, shapes; no need to be a statistician, but you need to have the intuition for the basics
• Be able to sling lightweight no-code tools and write enough glue/data munging code to get results
• Enjoy building processes - from small daily automations where computers do the work for you to designing team workflows
• Be fluent with SaaS ecosystem - what is out there, how to connect them
• Be fluent with data gathering - REST APIs, web scraping, OCR, SQL, scripting, converting between data formats
• Be an expert in data manipulation - sorting, searching, filtering, aggregating, enriching, and joining
• Be fluent with SQL
• Be fluent with analysis tools - notebooks, visualizations, BI tooling
• Be ruthlessly pragmatic - keep the business hypothesis and intent in mind and avoid technical rabbit holes, needless gold-plating, or the distractions of academic purity
• Be able to figure stuff out - the modern data space is deep and complex, and there are many ways of solving the same problem; you need to be able to find the path through the solution space most efficiently to get the results you need without getting bogged down
• Keep a finger on the pulse of the industry - data and AI vendor landscape, industry trends

Desirable

• We are looking for a Growth Engineer to join our Growth organization. At Coast, we believe in cross-functional teams that can iterate quickly by self-servicing their own engineering and analytics needs
• The Growth organization drives the ambitious agenda of our business as a whole, identifying the most critical areas of opportunity for Coast and developing solutions to unlock those opportunities at scale
• In this role you will be the cornerstone of our Growth organization, amplifying its effectiveness with data, tooling, experimentation, and automation - the ultimate goal is increasing the effectiveness of Coast’s growth and acquisition efforts and we expect you to be scrappy and opportunistic in doing so
• You will be building on top of our existing infrastructure, as well as using your own tools, from Python to Zapier, from Retool to Postman, from pipedream to Google Sheets, from ChatGPT to… well, you tell us
• It’s critical that members of the Growth team strike the right balance between speed and rigor, between being a power user of no-code tools and writing just enough code to get stuff done
• Empower the Growth organization by identifying insights and designing specific experiments to test our hypotheses, building out the data sets and gauging the resulting impact with a particular focus on separating noise from signal
• Work cross-functionally with various departments to turn business ideas into engineering solutions (ex: an OpenAI plugin that uses enrichment data to personalize outbound email communication to Coast prospects)
• Maintain, grow, and improve our existing proprietary data sets through custom development work (e.g. a proprietary web crawler and scoring model to source and prioritize businesses that Coast is most likely to convert to customers)
• Work with our myriad of data vendors to source and maintain their data as needed to achieve the goals of the Growth organization
• Continuously improve the day to day operations of the organization by building lightweight tooling and automation - even smallest incremental improvements will have outsize impact given the team size
• Collaborate with the data engineering organization to build out the missing infrastructure required for the Growth organization to effectively operate, as needed, from loading SaaS vendor data into the warehouse, to building lightweight tooling on top of it