We have lots of data organised in different databases on different platforms and in different formats. We need someone that can wrap their head around our data and likes working on different pieces of analysis. If you’re an organised data guru that can think outside of a box, join our data team.
Location: Anywhere / remote We prefer that you are between UTC-3 and UTC-8 If you prefer working in an office: Toronto or Grand Cayman are the options
Responsibilities: You’ll be working with our Data Engineer and Data Visualisation Expert to create new pieces of analysis You’ll write Python scripts that pull data from APIs, websites via scraping, emails and then dump it into our Google BigQuery data warehouse. You’ll work closely with different stakeholders across the organisation to make us more efficient by automating reports and dashboards. You’re flexible and interested in different kind of problems: one day you might be building a solution for marketing, the next for our editorial team. You can extract valuable insights from large pools of data, as well as to articulate these insights to other staff members and executives You’ll will build some predictive models and answer questions around: Who will convert into a paying customer? What makes users post in our forums? Can we predict churn rates? What happens if we change X?
Must-haves: Uber analytical SQL experience, even better: BigQuery. We’re not a fan of MS SQL 🙂 Python scripting experience well beyond print(‘Hello World’), pandas Experience with APIs, webscraping (selenium!) Stats background, t-tests, regressions should be no brainers and random forests fun to walk through Some dashboarding experience, such as Google Data Studio You’re creative, both in making visualisations of complex questions and in solving problems Strong communicator Super organised A couple of years of experience with data wrangling
Nice-to-haves: Remote working experience
Who we are: With over 1,300 websites attracting more than 100 million monthly unique visitors, Toronto-based VerticalScope is one of the largest and fastest growing online publishers in North America. Our unique combination of wholly-owned community (forum) websites and professional content sites offers shoppers critical information that they can’t get from OEM sites or other interest-based portals, attracting a unique audience and blue chip advertisers seeking to reach them. These sites are organized into 9 different verticals including automotive, outdoors, powersports, pets, home, consumer technology and health & wellness, to name a few.
How to apply:
Send a brief email to data@verticalscope.com explaining why you’d like to work with us and why we should hire you. Make sure the subject line is “Data Analyst.”
