*When I Work is a remote first company. We are open to hiring candidates in the continental US and Ontario, Canada. If an onsite location is important to you in your search, you are welcome to work from our Minneapolis HQ office.
Who We Are
We help hourly teams get shift done.
At When I Work, everything we do starts with a mission to make shift work awesome. We deliver on that mission by making every piece of hourly workforce management - scheduling, time tracking, shift trading, team messaging, and more - easy and straightforward for managers and employees alike.
The Data and RevOps team at When I Work is a group of inquisitive and driven individuals who love solving problems using data. We have built a best-in-class data environment and fuel insights throughout the organization on our product and customers. We work collaboratively together, invest in our processes and tooling, and move slow to move fast. We focus on projects that will have a big impact to the company and work to enable anyone to be a savvy data user.
What You’ll Do
Over the last few years we have been building out a best-in-class data environment that we’ve used to transform When I Work into a data-driven company. You will be a key contributor extracting value from this environment as well as develop and sustain data projects and analysis that will have significant impact to our company and our users.
- Proactively identify opportunities to build out solutions or use internally stored data to provide value to the business
- Design and implement scalable ETLs
- Own end to end design and implementation of analytical project scope to turn raw data into actionable insight
- Work closely with internal teams across the business (Product, GTM, etc.) to understand their analytical needs and help empower them to find success in their initiatives through data
- Clearly articulate analytical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Work with data visualization tools to help end users answer pertinent questions
- Make use of statistical modeling / machine learning in order to advance business outcomes
Who You Are
As a Senior Data Analytics Engineer, you are eager to use data to solve business problems and guide data-driven decision making across an entire organization. You enjoy the end to end process of data analytics. You are a maker at heart who enjoys being in the code while also uncovering new product and business opportunities through whatever methods and tools are right for the task. You enjoy collaborating with a team, but you also have the ability to work independently when needed to get things done. Above all, you are broadly curious, driven to learn and a motivated problem solver who wants to help tackle the new and interesting challenges that we encounter as a fast-growing startup.
Experience and Skills Needed
- 3+ years of experience in data science or data analytics
- You have strong programming fundamentals
- You are comfortable with agile, collaborative coding processes
- You can distinguish signal from noise in complex data sets
- You have experience with Python or another, similar programming language
- You have solid, hygienic SQL skills
- You have experience modeling data to support both consistent and generic usage patterns
- You have significant experience with both structured and unstructured data
- Experience modeling data within OLAP relational data stores
- You have familiarity with cloud computing environments and infrastructure
- You have experience taking technical analytics work and presenting in a form that non-technical users are able to glean the significance of your findings
- You practice empathy and kindness, and you look to help others
What Would Be Awesome To Have
- Advanced Python and data package (Numpy, Pandas, etc.) skills
- You are a proponent of DevOps and enthusiastic about DataOps
- You are comfortable with different data modeling techniques (Star Schema, Snowflake, DV2, etc.)
- Have experience with a data warehouse platform (Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
- Experience with S3 based data lake and parquet file format
What’s In It For You
- Professional development allowance
- Paid parental leave
- Medical benefits - employee premiums paid 100% by When I Work
- Dental benefits- employee premiums paid 100% by When I Work
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Flexible work environment
- 401K Match
- Remote first culture including home office set-up stipend and ongoing telecommuter stipend
- Casual dress code
- Dynamic and dedicated team
We believe actions speak louder than words. Every encounter with our people and products should be memorable and helpful. Challenges are exciting, failure is how we learn, and we all have an entrepreneurial spirit. Building an inclusive and equitable workplace isn’t lip service. We invest our time and our money in organizations that are not only working to diversify the current jobscape, but also investing in the future of talent. We’re motivated by a strong, innovative, and passionate work culture and we’re constantly searching for ways to improve and get shift done.
Whether you’re a perfect match or not, if it sounds like a good fit, we encourage you to apply.
The tech industry is notorious for its lack of diverse representation, and we're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Are you hesitant to submit an application because you're not sure if you check every box? Apply anyway! We would love to hear from you and figure out what you can add to the culture here at When I Work.
We’d love to talk to you! Please submit the following to apply:
- Resume (including months/years of employment for each position).
- Cover letter including:
- an overview of your existing experience
- a convincing reason why you’d like to work at When I Work.
*Must already be authorized to work in the United States or Canada on a full-time basis for any employer.
