Europe-based applicants only

About Reedsy

We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.

We’ve grown to a community of 1,000,000 authors and over 3,000 freelancers in just a few short years, while picking up a number of industry awards along the way 🏆

Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

Responsibilities

We have built a number of products at Reedsy, including a marketplace (https://reedsy.com), the world's largest short story contest (https://reedsy.com/writing), and a book discovery platform (https://reedsy.com/discovery). We have millions of users and always looking to reach more.

You will:

• Design data models and pipelines to preprocess data for analytics and integration in our warehouse;

• Work with our developers to build our data infrastructure;

• Create dashboards and put in place KPIs to monitor our performance;

• Conduct data analysis (eg. to optimize liquidity on our marketplace) and communicate results to drive business decisions;

• Work with different functions in our organization that have specific data insight needs (eg. our marketing team for lead acquisition and growth);

• Improve funnel conversion tracking through our entire ecosystem;

• Proactively find insights that help us make better products;

• Use Machine Learning and NLP (eg. to categorize projects submitted on the marketplace); and

• Manage our data stack and contribute to the development of self-service analytics to improve data access across the company.

Requirements

Your have 5+ years of technical experience with:

• Using query language (SQL and variations)
• Data warehouse (BigQuery, Redshift, etc.)
• Google Analytics
• BI tools (Metabase, Data Studio, etc.)
• Data visualization
• Data mining (web crawling, open data, parsing)
• Scripting and programming (Python, R, Ruby)
• Machine learning, ideally with some knowledge about Deep Learning

And maybe more importantly:

• Communication: Strong data storytelling skills with the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
• Common sense and critical thinking: you can break down the problem and find answers with data. You are comfortable with developing and suggesting metrics in line with the company's objectives. You go beyond the numbers and think critically about the "why".
• Experience working remotely and with a fast-growing startup.

Bonus points

• Multilingual;
• Experience with Google Cloud;
• Experience with Elasticsearch; and
• A good dose of ambition, curiosity, as well as a great sense of humor

Benefits

• Work From Home;
• Paid paternal and maternal leave;
• Reedski, our annual ski trip

Salary range

€60k – €80k