About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

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

As part of the Audience Analytics team, you will work directly with 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 in establishing metrics, frameworks, and tooling that provide the newsroom with deeper insight into our audience, coverage, and promotion strategy. You will be a curious and collaborative team player who understands the importance of consistent analytic delivery to support the Times mission. You will report to our Senior Manager, Audience Analytics.

Responsibilities:

• You will work with company partners to understand Audience challenges and develop data-driven solutions
• You will code in R to analyze data, build data visualizations and automated reporting infrastructure.
• You will write SQL to build pipelines, reporting architecture, and analyze large datasets.
• You will support data-oriented analyses to be presented to senior leadership in slide decks and memos.
• You will develop and maintain complex spreadsheets (using functions and macros) and dashboards to expand access to data and analytics.
• Occasionally help produce insights for our daily morning news meeting, with the ability to work as early as 7 A.M. EST.
• 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:

• 3+ years of experience working with data analytics or data science teams to deliver analysis
• 3+ years of experience in at least one additional scripting language like R, Python, or JavaScript (R preferred)
• 1+ years experience with data visualization and presenting insights from data
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience with version control (Github, code review)
• 1+ years of experience with ggplot and tidyverse
• 1+ years of experience or familiarity with analyzing media industry trends
• Familiarity with Google BigQuery, AWS, or other big data environments
• 1+ years of experience working in dbt

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$101,000-$114,000 USD

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

We're excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

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