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[Joyce Schiffer]

Joyce Schiffer

Joyce at taskmanagement.com

203-241-2655



ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD, ANALYTICS - NYC

The Engineering Team Lead, Analytics role is critical to the Platform and
has strategic, technical execution, and team management

responsibilities. The individual is responsible for evaluating our existing
homegrown Analytics product, collaborating

with internal teams -- including Marketing, Sales, and Editorial -- to
create an industry-leading solution as part of the Platform.

The Analytics product is the intelligence and storytelling layer within the
Platform. Through easy-to-use query tools and personalized

dashboards, it weaves together a powerful story about the relationships
amongst our Platform, content, customers, advertisers, and editors. It

tells us how our customers arrive at our site, how they engage with our
content, what devices they use, how often do they come back, how

much do they interact with our advertisements, what and where do they share,
what their sartorial taste is, their topical interest, and so on.

Responsibilities:

● Lead engineering efforts in building out our Analytics product --
including data warehouse, personalized dashboards (for

Marketing, Editorial, Sales, and advertising partners), custom query tools,
SEO-related monitoring tools, etc.

● Help internal teams and advertising partners to better understand the
value of our Platform through data

● Lead efforts and roadmap across the company and for site analytics, page
templates, recommendations, audience segmentation,

and other features with goal to drive site acquisition and deeper reader
engagement on site.

● Co-create strategic direction and product roadmap with Product Manager
and the Marketing team

● Strategically manage relationships and oversee integrations /
partnerships with third-party platforms, such as SimpleReach, Google

Analytics, Gnip, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

● Ensure data consistency and integrity across the Platform

● Collaborate with parallel Engineering teams -- CMS, Web, Mobile,
Community, and Partnerships -- on Analytics needs

● Build the Analytics engineering team from scratch, transition off
offshore resources while maintaining dev momentum

● Define key metrics of success and goals of projects to ensure the team
has a clear understanding of its objectives

Qualifications:

● Ability to distill and communicate complex technical and product ideas
concisely

● Ability to create complex and interactive data visualizations

● Ability to lead and build engineering teams of 3 - 5 engineers

● Working knowledge of semantic web technologies, such as Apache Jena,
SPARQL query language, OWLIM, Neo4j, etc.

● Experience with natural language processing (NLP)

● Deeply empathetic about users’ needs, especially around reading,
retrieving, and visualizing data

● Knowledge of large-scale data-processing technologies, such as Hadoop,
Apache Spark, etc.

● 8+ years of relevant work experience

● Thorough understanding of PHP, Java, MySQL, Python

● Thorough understanding of database design and data warehouse design

● B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related fields



Joyce Schiffer


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