Job Description

Job Description

The Data Platform builds products that expose data in user-friendly ways for product managers, editors and reporters, marketers and analysts. The New York Times is looking for a Data Analyst to help grow a Data Visualization Platform that powers digital strategy across the Newsroom, apps, and our teams.

You will sit within the broader Data Products team that's responsible for improving a set of products that expose data in user-friendly ways for product managers, editors, marketers, and analysts.

You will work with platform and analytics managers to establish the definitions to our website data so that we understand better how readers interact with our journalism. You will be an important partner in building an excellent analytics experience at The New York Times.

You will also work with Product Management to advocate for best practices throughout the processing and implementation of visualizing our data eventually being at the forefront of advancing a data-driven culture at the New York Times.

You will have to use a mix of SQL and UX experience and carry a sense of empathy about our users and how they connect with data. You will report to the director of Data Platforms that manages our custom visualization and business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities:

* Work with data analysts to identify pain points in our data visualization tools.

* Manage issue investigation and enhancement requests to help inform data platform improvements and roadmap.

* Design user management and report maintenance strategy and tooling for BI platforms.

* Partner on feature development for visualization projects that provide scalable data solutions for product managers and journalists alike.

Qualifications:

* 2+ years of professional experience.

* Experience with data warehousing architecture.

* Technical experience working with data, including familiarity of SQL, Python, and JavaScript.

* Experience breaking problems down into simpler and smaller execution steps.

* A high level of awareness and empathy in working with others

* You find the intricacies of building a data platform to be fascinating

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.