Job Description
Description:
Seeking analytical talent to turn passion for data and support of world-class journalism and games into tools and insights. The analyst is the key liaison with Games engineers and product managers as well as the Data Insight Group’s engineers, testing team and data platform experts to ensure quality, thoroughness and efficiency for data implementation, collection and analysis. This position requires a strategic and tactical viewpoint and strong problem solving skills
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with internal data, engineering and product stakeholders to understand the business and develop data solutions.
- Partner on design, QA, and execution of complex A/B tests to optimize the customer journey.
- Democratize data through skillful data structuring and use of dashboards and visualization tools
- Work with Games data lead to support foundational analytic work: problem definition, creation of implementation specs and requirements, architecture/oversight of foundational data sets and ETL
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong skills in SQL and data manipulation (ETL)
- Experience with data documentation, design, and implementation
- Track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Excellent analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Familiarity with big data environments
- Experience with A/B testing
- A love for games!
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.
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