Data Analyst - Rakentaja

THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELL
Role? Data Analyst collaborating tightly with our business and diving deep into our data in order to discover trends & business opportunities, evaluate what works and make actionable recommendations to improve the business and the product.
You? Background in data analytics, SQL & relational databases along with AWS and analytics tools. Ability to work both in Finnish and English.
Company? Schibsted, the product company, gathering together Rakentaja, Tori, Oikotie & Sähkövertailu. Over 250 colleagues in Finland and 5000 in the Nordics want to steer innovation to empower the millions of people interacting with us in their daily lives.
Location? Office located right in the centre of Pori. Our future is hybrid so you can be based anywhere in Finland! We meet at least once a month at the office to crack a joke or two.
Why us? To work with a Rakentaja product family that has over 1 million visits each month! We work independently on Rakentaja, but we are lucky to have a Nordic Schibsted community with whom to share ideas and learn from. Our community embraces curiosity, a problem-solving mindset, and continuous learning. Our benefits include e.g. lunch vouchers on top of your salary, extra week of holiday and a bike benefit!

Sounds like your cup of tea? Check out the details below!

WHO ARE YOU?

• Background in data analytics: you’re seasoned in turning data and analytics into actionable insights.
• Proficiency in SQL & relational databases. We’ve MySQL & PostgreSQL in use.
• Data analytics tools like Google Analytics / Google Data Studio / Power BI / Tableau can be found in your tool box.
• Know-how on AWS Database Services (eg. Amazon RDS)
• Fluency in Finnish & English: currently, we only create content in Finnish and customer data is in Finnish, thus it’s important to master it. Our company language is English and most of the internal communication is in English.
• As a person, you are a curious self-starter willing to develop yourself and take on challenges with a problem-solver mindset. If you are inspired by problems and creating new from scratch, we believe that our working culture is a great fit for you! Here is a motivated, development-oriented bunch of positive thinkers waiting for you. We hope you find our way of thinking as inspiring as we do!

WHAT’S THE JOB LIKE?
Responsibilities
As a member of the Rakentaja tech team, your main focus is on diving deep into our user, campaign & marketing data and supporting the business by building data pipelines and providing insights and recommendations based on the data. The needs for data come straight from our customers, business and marketing. Thus, you partner up with our product, business and tech people to identify the data needs. Based on them, you discover trends & business opportunities, evaluate what works and make actionable recommendations to improve the business and the product. You also collect key figures for customers on how their campaigns have performed, make suggestions for further actions along with designing and evaluating experiments. You’re also very welcome to join customer meetings if you like! The Rakentaja marketplace has 1M visits monthly, our newsletter has 240 000 subscribers and we've been collecting data for the past 20 years. Thus, there’s a quite decent amount of data to play around with! Are you interested in making sense out of it?

Tech stack
You hop on a moving train since we are currently transitioning our legacy stack to a more modern one. Some of the key technologies in use are Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Next.js, TypeScript and serverless environments in the AWS with CI/CD pipelines. Learnings are guaranteed, as this is a pivotal moment for the Rakentaja tech organisation. Opportunities to make a difference and to influence the future of Rakentaja are numerous and frequent.

Not everything is sweet, so here is the main opportunity for improvement
As we are in the middle of developing a modern tech system, the legacy is not fully left behind yet (the current ratio between the old and the new is about 30/70). Thus, we are challenged to allocate and prioritise our resources between the two systems. Modernising the legacy at the scale we’re doing it, is not the easiest task to do and challenges and heavy hands-on work are guaranteed. Are you up for a challenge?

Goals
During your first six months, we expect you to get on board, settle in the team and start building an understanding on our business and on how data is sorted out in our legacy system. This preps you to take the modern one in use later this year. Further down the road, we are eager to see you building data collection systems, automated dashboards and pulling out reports on our modernised system. We also encourage you to not be content with just finishing backlog tasks but also contributing to build our vision, strategy and working methods.

Colleagues
Here is a 29 member Rakentaja family eagerly waiting for you! The Rakentaja tech team gathers five bright experts: 3 developers, 1 PM & 1 Tech Lead. We are agile (really!), work in a startup style environment and our work is paced by sprints and collaboratively set OKRs (Objectives - Key Results). You also get to collaborate with other Schibsted talents in Finland and at the Nordic level on different cross-functional projects. Schibsted’s data squad in Finland is also there to support you and exchange ideas with.

When getting to know us, you notice quickly that, we truly live and work based on our three key values: we win together when working on cross-functional squads around the OKRs, we encourage each other to be curious and actively develop ourselves for example with the help of LinkedIn Learning platform, and we are empowered to have courage to share ideas and challenge ourselves. If our way of living resonates with you, we believe that we are a dream workplace for you!

GOT YOUR ATTENTION? Let us hear from you!
If you are looking for a workplace and the role in which you could share your knowledge and expertise, learn, get inspired, be yourself, and feel good, let us hear from you! We are happy to receive your application by Sunday, February 6.

ANY QUESTIONS?
Rakentaja’s Tech Lead Daniel Helvaci (daniel.helvaci(at)schibsted.com) is happy to tell you about the daily work. You can also reach Daniel over the phone (040 622 7445) between 12:00-13:00 on 26.-28.1. & 1.-3.2.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS?
1. 45 min meeting with the Talent Acquisition Lead Venla (your background & skills in short, Schibsted as an employer)
2. 45 min meeting with Daniel, the hiring manager & Inka, Rakentaja’s Business Manager (Rakentaja organisation, role goals & expectations, your background & skills)
3. 60 min tech chat with a few colleagues (time to show what you got!)

In every interview, we have saved 10-15 minutes for you to interview us. So think about things you would like to know and have courage to ask difficult questions! The hiring decision always has two sides: we make our choice, but most importantly, you are also making a big decision for your future. Hence, we want to make sure that all your questions are answered and you have all the necessary tools before taking your next career step. #LI-VK1 #LI-hybrid