Senior Analyst, Storytelling Analytics

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a Senior Analyst to join our Storytelling Team.

As part of the Storytelling team, you will work closely with Product, Engineering and Newsroom partners to help uncover meaningful patterns from our data, engineer data solutions, and develop data infrastructure. You will contribute to the team's work measuring engagement and evaluating the success of Storytelling initiatives. You will be a curious and collaborative team player who works often with our big data and understands the importance of consistent analytic delivery to support the Times mission. You will report to our Senior Manager, Storytelling Analytics. This is a hybrid role, working in New York, NY.

Responsibilities:

• You will work with Storytelling partners to understand challenges and develop data-driven solutions
• You will code in R to analyze data, and build data visualizations and automated reporting infrastructure
• You will write SQL to build pipelines and analyze large datasets
• You will run A/B Tests and provide scope, deliver test analysis, insights, and recommendations on future tests and next steps
• You will develop dashboards to expand access to data and insights
• You will develop tracking requirements for new features with the team and ensure that those requirements are implemented properly with engineers
• You will be a steward of and perform quality checks on your work, especially as new product features scale and become more formalized
• You will develop data projects to support the team's strategy, producing applicable insights
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working with data analytics or data science teams to deliver analysis
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases
• 1+ years of experience in at least one additional scripting language like R, Python, or JavaScript
• 1+ years of experience with designing, running and analyzing the result of A/B tests

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience with version control (Github, code review)
• Familiarity with Google BigQuery, AWS, or other big data environments
• 1+ years of experience working with dbt or other data transformation or scheduling tools
• Experience with ggplot and tidyverse
• R Proficiency