Data Scientist, Kickstarter
$110-130k
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Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
Job no longer available
Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$110-130k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help bring creative projects to life.
Role
Who you are
- You have 2-5 years of professional experience in data analytics for a technical product
- You are a SQL expert and proficient in Python or R
- You are at ease conducting exploratory analysis and visualizing data
- You have experience with A/B and multivariate testing
- You value communicating insights concisely, accurately, and meaningfully to a diverse audience
- Experience with dbt is a strong plus
What the job involves
- Kickstarter, PBC is seeking a Data Scientist to join our Insights team
- Query and analyze data in SQL for cross-functional stakeholders such as product managers, product designers, and engineers
- Expand Kickstarter’s business intelligence and product analytics capabilities to promote self-sufficiency throughout the organization
- Conduct analyses in Python/R and communicate your findings to a diverse group of product stakeholders with both technical and non-technical backgrounds
- Our team’s objectives include:
- Democratizing data access across the organization and providing tools and training to support data-informed decisions
- Acquiring and synthesizing all relevant information about our ecosystem, the creative landscape, and our users, to provide high quality strategic advice to decision makers at all levels of the organization
- Raising the quality of data in our system, including improving our data infrastructure and modeling, and utilizing a variety of research methodologies to understand our users and their experiences
Our take
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that is dedicated to the creative ecosystem, providing its community of painters, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and all other creatives with a space to raise money for specific projects.
Kickstarter Campaigns operate on an “all-or-nothing” basis, meaning that if a campaign misses a deadline, they don’t get any of the money pledged to their project, however, creators are able to set deadlines and funding goals themselves in order to make the success of their campaign more manageable.
The company also launched a new feature in early 2023, called Drip, which enables creators to receive continued support from backers through subscription-based payments, ensuring sustainable funding for their projects.
By ensuring creatives retain 100% ownership of their work, the company simplifies the fundraising process by eliminating the need for long and complicated grant application processes, donors asking creators to make modifications, or last-minute edit requests from investors. Since its launch in 2009, 22M people around the globe have pledged over $7.2B to help fund projects such as the early version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2011
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $120m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: Curiosity is our compass. We welcome experimentation, failure, and the courage to try again. We invest in many kinds of trainings and workshops to make sure our team is always building new skills.
- Community: Join an Affinity Group like Black At Kickstarter, Parents, Azns, Queerstarter, or Gender Justice. Attend the many exciting social and cultural events available to Kickstarter employees. These include speaker series, product demos, concerts from teammates, pre-release film screenings, industry meetups, and more.
- Social Contribution: Every year Kickstarter donates five percent of our after-tax profit to organizations that fight systemic inequality and promote arts education. All full-time employees can nominate recipient organizations and apply to join the committee that ultimately directs our contributions.
- Stipends: We offer a yearly reimbursable stipend for Remote Working and Wellness.
- Fully Remote Work: Work flexibly. All full-time employees can live and work anywhere we are registered as an employer. See below for a list of current locations. We anticipate this list will continue to expand as we grow our distributed workforce.
- Benefits: Among other benefits, we offer a three percent safe harbor 401K contribution, world-class healthcare coverage, 16 annual paid vacation days, paid holidays, and 25 annual paid volunteer hours to all full-time employees.
Leadership
Everette Taylor
(CEO)Founder of ET Enterprises. Former CMO of Artsy and Skurt. They also previously worked as Head of Growth (Interim) at Microsoft China.
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