Kickstarter

Kickstarter

Kickstarter helps bring people's dreams to life. It's true! We're where artists, designers, technologists, musicians, filmmakers, and foodies come to fund their creative projects, and we spend our days helping them do just that.

Kickstarter Analyst

Analytical all stars needed to help answer some fascinating questions.

  • New York, United States
  • Opportunity has expired
  • Salary Details: Your compensation will include equity and health-care.
  • Finance & Data
  • Full-time
  • Entrepreneurial Work
  • Exciting Brand
  • Social Impact
  • Mid Level
  • Social Good
  • Creative / Arts
  • Tech / Internet
ABOUT

When you're browsing Kickstarter, do you wonder what makes a project succeed? Question how one project affects the others? Feel a need to analyze the effects of social networks on projects? If those or other data-related questions run through your mind, and you're ready to answer them, come lead those efforts as our Kickstarter Analyst.

Your responsibilities will include

  • Using your expertise in SQL and other tools (such as R, Stata, SAS, MATLAB, or Python) to help us understand our site, service, and users
  • Initiating studies of Kickstarter data
  • Querying our data stores and organizing the results in a usable and insightful format
  • Acting as the authority on data and metrics related to Kickstarter’s business
  • Answering data-related questions from various teams
  • Deriving insight from our data to inform business decisions and minimize risk

Bonus points

  • Data blog
  • GitHub profile