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Data Engineer

Data Engineer

EssentiallySportsBellary, IN
2 days ago
Job description

Full Time Role at EssentiallySports for Data Growth Engineer

EssentiallySports is the home for the underserved fan, delivering storytelling that goes beyond the headlines. As a media platform, we combine deep audience insights with cultural trends, to meet fandom where it lives and where it goes next.

Values

  • Focus on the user and all else will follow
  • Hire for Intent and not for Experience
  • Bootstrapping gives you the freedom to serve the customer and the team instead of investor
  • Internet and Technology untap the niches
  • Action oriented , integrity, freedom, strong communicators, and responsibility
  • All things equal, one with high agency wins

EssentiallySports is a top 10 sports media platform in the U.S., generating over a billion pageviews a year and 30m+ monthly active users per month. This massive traffic fuels our data-driven culture, allowing us to build owned audiences at scale through organic growth—a model we take pride in, with zero CAC.

The next phase of ES growth is around newsletter initiative, in less than 9 months, we’ve built a robust newsletter brand with 700,000+ highly engaged readers and impressive performance metrics :

  • 5 newsletter brands
  • 700k+ subscribers
  • Open rates of 40%-46%.

    • The role is for a data engineer with growth and business acumen, in the “permissionless growth” team. Someone who can connect the pipelines of millions of users, but at the same time knit a story of the how and why.

    Responsibilities

  • Owning Data Pipeline from Web to Athena to Email, end-to-end
  • You’ll make the key decisions and see them through to successful user sign up
  • Use Data Science to find real insights, which translates to user engagement
  • Pushing changes every week day
  • Personalization at Scale : Leverage fan behavior data to tailor content and improve lifetime value.

    • Who are you?

  • 2+ years of professional data engineering experience
  • Someone who spends time thinking about business insights as much as they do on engineering
  • Is a self-starter, and drives initiatives
  • Is excited to pick up AI, and integrate it at various touch points
  • You have strong experience in data analysis, growth marketing, or audience development (media or newsletters? Even better).
  • Have an awareness about Athena, Glue, Jupyter, or intent to pick them up
  • You’re comfortable working with tools like Google Analytics, SQL, email marketing platforms (Beehiiv is a plus), and data visualization tools.
  • Collaborative and want to see the team succeed in its goals
  • Problem solving, proactive and solution oriented mindset, to spot opportunities and translate into real growth
  • Ability to thrive in startups with a fast-paced environment and take ownership for working through ambiguity
  • Excited to join a lean team in a big company that moves quickly

    • Very flexible and open, can ask anything anytime. Real mentorship and coaching. Superb energy in whole ES team.” - when team was asked how would you describe ES to a friend after a round of beers

    What do you get?

  • Fully Remote Job
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Freedom to own the Problem Statements, and make your own solutions
  • Play with the biggest dataset, as a function of working in a media org.
  • Work directly with the founding team
  • Release features at scale to Millions of Users on Day 1
  • Freedom to work on multiple and new technologies
  • Bi-annual offsites which are coined “epic” by the team!

    • The permissionless growth team is small, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders / founders who have built and led multiple product, tech, data and design teams, and grown EssentiallySports to a global scale.

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