theSkimm

Were hiring a Data Engineer.

About our team & what well build together

Were looking for an experienced Data Engineer & mentor to join theSkimm's Tech team. Our mission is to enable our partners across theSkimm, from Editorial & Audio to Marketing & Advertising, to achieve their goals with the best systems & processes we can offer. We build tools throughout the stack, share knowledge across departments, & learn quickly so we can take best advantage of whats coming.

As we grow, we're looking for a Data Engineer who will help solidify & expand our pipelines & maintain our data warehouse. Our business is run on detailed analysis of how our products perform with our members, which features they love & which can be improved, & which product & marketing campaigns are bringing in the best quality users. You'll be responsible for working alongside analysts, product, marketing, & other teams to define new data collection components & measurement schemes that support each new product & feature.

How youll contribute to our mission

• Create & maintain data pipelines to provide insights & drive business decisions
• Establish theSkimms data warehousing strategy (ex. Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
• Maintain theSkimms data infrastructure on our AWS accounts
• Collaborates with analytics & business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility & fostering data-driven decision making across the organization. 
• Write unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, & documents work
• Implement processes & systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate & available for key stakeholders & business processes that depend on it

Youre ready for this! Heres a bit more about what were looking for

• 3+ years of industry experience measuring product performance & user behavior
• Experience working with a variety of data management technologies, including RedShift, Kinesis/Kafka, Glue, Spark, Postgres, Airflow, dbt, & others.
• Experience implementing BI reporting tools such as Looker
• Experience interfacing with engineers, product managers & analysts to understand data needs
• Knowledge of a variety of measurement beacons, SDKs, APIs including Google Analytics, Amplitude, Braze, email service providers
• A commitment to building secure, resilient, fault-tolerant architectures, with clear documentation & procedures in place for support
• A focus on accuracy & detail as you build, ensuring data pipelines produce clear, predictable results
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, & high-growth environment
• Facility in presenting & discussing the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
• An empathetic leadership style that encourages open communication & trust
• Understanding of the typical metrics a subscription & advertising-supported business needs to measure success
• Experience with ML techniques as applied to behavioral segmentation or anomaly identification is a plus
• Familiarity using developer tools that increase productivity & facilitate the development of resilient code (eg. Docker, CircleCI, Serverless) is a plus
• Familiarity & enthusiasm for theSkimm: a passion for our audience & mission is a plus

The expected annual base salary for this role is $125,000-$135,000. Well consider a variety of factors when determining the offered base salary including an evaluation of a candidates skills, abilities, experience, location, market demands, & internal parity.

Why our employees love working here

We are mission driven & values driven:

We are collectively building an impactful brand to empower generations of informed, confident women. Our vision is for every woman to have the info they need to navigate a complex world & the decisions in it. Every role has a purpose & allows us to provide useful information succinctly & contextualized. We tee her up to take action - whichever action is right for her, wherever she is.

We are values driven at every point - how we work, the way we work & our culture come straight from our core values. Each of us supports this incredible brand & takes part in its continued growth, fulfilling the needs of our audience each & every day.

We put you & your personal lives first - we have a generous benefits policy that demonstrates we are listening to what our employees need:

• Unlimited vacation policy & generous holiday observances
• Encouraged time off on your birthday & Skimmversary 
• A hybrid working model with flexibility for remote work
• Comprehensive insurance plans & commuter benefits
• Auto-enrollment into an Empower 401(k) plan starting on your first day & employer contribution available after one year of employment 
• Rewards for every work anniversary
• One month paid sabbatical after your five year Skimmversary as a full-time employee

We support our parents at all points on their journey: 

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (adoption, fostering & surrogacy included)
• Bereavement leave for pregnancy loss
• Phased return to work schedule availability
• Flexibility based on parental schedules
• Access to family building & fertility benefits
• Flexible & broad-scale child support program

Your well being is our priority: 

• We honor Sacred Time in our workplace
• We have aligned company time off during the summer to truly allow for us all to break from our work at the same time
• We offer fitness membership reimbursement
• One Medical Membership is included with our benefits

We have a vibrant, collaborative, & supportive culture (we celebrate & have fun!):

• Weekly company updates led by our executive team
• Employee Resource Groups
• Annual employee award ceremony to celebrate individual accomplishments
• Clubs & activities designed to meet other employees like book clubs, new hire buddy programs, off-sites, & wellness focused classes
• Numerous culture events that enable our workforce, in the office & remote, to connect & have fun

Your career & development are a priority: 

• Annual learning & development stipend
• LEAD@theSkimm, our leadership development program
• DEI initiatives to ensure we are the best partners & colleagues to each other
• Career development guidance & planning

And more

• Competitive salary & equity packages
• The opportunity to be part of a values-driven, hardworking, & diverse group of people building a media company that makes it easier to live smarter

Our story, Skimmd

We are a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We make it easier to live smarter.

At our core, we are writers, editors, producers, designers, marketers, engineers, analysts, sellers, creatives, & strategists all working together to achieve this goal.

Every day were breaking down the news, trends, policies, & politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives & futures from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots with confidence.  We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan, information, informing & empowering them while fitting into their daily routines. 

Since disrupting the media landscape & defining a new category a decade ago, we have become a trusted source for our audience of millions by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way they consume news & make decisions. Today theSkimm ecosystem includes the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money & Skimm Your Life newsletters, B2B marketers newsletter The SKM Report, 9 to 5ish with theSkimm podcast, theSkimm mobile app. We also house Skimm Studios which creates innovative in-house video & audio content, & our in-house creative agency SKM Lab, which conceptualizes, develops, & produces innovative solutions & content for brands to engage with generations of informed women. Our first book, How to Skimm Your Life debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Through Skimm Impact, our purpose-driven platform, we are proud to support get-out-the-vote efforts with Skimm Your Ballot, which has spurred more than two million voting-related actions across the last four election cycles. We have mobilized hundreds of companies to join our #ShowUsYourLeave movement, which has created transparency & pushed for progress for Paid Family Leave in the U.S. And were empowering women to take agency of their lives & control of their futures through our State of Women initiative, grounded in a study conducted by The Harris Poll.

Come join us!

Learn more about us & our other opportunities here.