Data Analyst, Substack
$140-200k
Plus equity
Platform for writers & podcasters
Job no longer available
Platform for writers & podcasters
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$140-200k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give thinkers, writers, and creatives the opportunity to pursue their curiosity and make money at the same time.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in product analytics
- Love analyzing problems with data and synthesizing results to tell the narrative of the product
- Have strong expertise in SQL (we use Postgres + Snowflake) and event-based analytics and metrics
- Understand growth funnels and how to measure them
- Enjoy building dashboards (Sisense/Periscope Data) to memorialize findings and monitor key metrics
- Believe that building canonical datasets can empower an organization
- Have a proven track record of making meaningful impacts through data insights and discovery in past roles
- Nice to haves: Airflow, Python, Node
What the job involves
- We are looking for an individual familiar with contemporary software development and processes and a well-stocked analyst's toolbox to join in helping us shape our data-driven culture
- You will be an early leader in establishing key product metrics, enabling the company to learn from our data, answering key questions, and making better decisions
- Deeply understand the behaviors of Substack readers and writers
- Explore, measure, and track metrics related to the Substack ecosystem
- Derive denormalized tables to enable simplified analytics
- Partner with product teams on developing key metrics and testing intuitions with data to inform better decision making
- Develop data insights that can empower Substack writers to better understand their newsletters
Our take
Substack is an online platform for journalists and writers to manage subscription-based newsletters. Substack has attracted a range of writers and publishers who wish to connect with their audiences while being removed from social media and other ad-based models.
For an industry that has seen a steady decline in its fortunes since the rise of digital, Substack offers journalism an alternative to the advertising-driven clickbait-focused model that has dominated the last decade. Substack has amassed more than 35 million subscribers.
The subscription newsletter space is a competitive market, but Substack claims to provide greater freedom to writers than its competitors. Writers produce their newsletters on the site for free, charging an optional subscription fee (minimum of $5/month) of which Substack takes 10%. The company continues to seek out ways to diversify its offerings, whilst securing funding rounds to expand its reach.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2025
$100m
SERIES C
Nov 2024
$10m
ANGEL
Total funding: $200.3m
Company benefits
- Remote work support - All employees receive a generous allowance to customize their home offices
- Comprehensive health care - Substack covers 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents, and fully funds HRA plans
- Parental leave - We want employees to be fully present for the new members of their family, so we offer generous parental leave
- Flexible vacation and paid time off - You’re the best person to decide when you need a day—or a week—off to travel or decompress. Our flexible vacation policy puts you in control
- Company holidays and Winter shutdown - In addition to flexible time off, we honor 12 paid holidays annually on average. And we close the office between Christmas Eve and New Year's day to recharge each year
- Phone & internet stipends - Many of our employees work from home or on the go. So we offer full time employees a monthly stipend to cover for phone and internet costs
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Best
(CEO & Co-Founder)After several software internships, they co-founded Kik Interactive in 2009, serving as CTO until 2017. At this stage, they founded Substack, and have served as CEO ever since.
Hamish McKenzie
(Chief Writing Officer & Co-Founder)Previously a journalist for several publications include The Independent and Time Out. Lead Writer for Tesla and Editorial Advisor to Kik Interactive.
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