Job Description

Editorial Analyst Data Science & Analytics

The Post Digital Network reaches 95 million people every month across NYPost.com, PageSix.com and Decider.com. This is an opportunity to join an iconic media brand as it continues to expand and roll out exciting new products.

The Data Science & Analytics team at the New York Post is responsible for end-to-end data capture, analysis, and data productization. The team seeks an Editorial Analyst with at least 2 years of experience in a journalism analytics or digital media analytics role.

Responsibilities

* Work directly with our digital editor-in-chief, Michelle Gotthelf, and the audience development team to optimize site traffic in real-time
* Provide editorial team with daily digital content strategies, reporting, and feedback on an article-by-article basis

* Monitor and provide real-time analysis and support of traffic fluctuations

* Develop page optimization strategies that can be integrated across our brands

* Create audience profiles that help segment audiences and continually redefine success in the newsroom

* Help develop pitches for audience-driven coverage by providing easily digestible reports and insights

* Identify content areas ripe for growth, understanding that audience interactions with our content are continuously evolving

* Challenge preexisting newsroom assumptions with hard data

* Work toward data democratization within the newsroom

* Ensure proper data collection is in place across all platforms (site, social, apps, distributed content) from technical, strategic, and business perspectives

* Collaborate with other analysts and data scientist to develop large-scale projects and performance reporting

Qualifications

* Great understanding of the intersection of journalistic reporting and audience-driven content
* Minimum 2-3 years experience in media and/or digital publishing

* Experience in gathering, synthesizing, and analyzing large data sets, particularly social network data, web analytics tools, and distributed content tracking

* Expert-level Excel skills

* Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and/or Parse.ly experience preferred

* Portfolio of data visualization work in Excel, Tableau, Plotly or similar

* Some experience in SQL, Python, R or similar language for data analytics is helpful

* A sense of curiosity about what makes audiences interact with digital content, a desire to experiment and innovate with existing tools, and a need to figure out whats next and plan for the future

As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individuals race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.

Job Category : DIGITAL

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets