Looker is on a mission to bring better insights and data-driven decisions to every business. Everything we do is aimed at making sure our customers love every aspect of Looker, from our products and technologies to our ease of doing business and our support. We are looking for curiously brilliant individuals to join our team as we reinvent data analytics. Get data driven and see yourself at Looker.

DATA JOURNALISM/STORYTELLING FELLOW

Looker is seeking a storyteller or journalist who excels at exploring datasets, identifying fascinating findings in the data, and crafting the findings into compelling, shareable stories. In this role, you will work alongside Looker’s Chief Data Evangelist to identify and obtain promising datasets—from public entities and from Looker’s customers—so that they can be explored and visualized with Looker’s data platform. You should be able to take a story from the conception stage all the way to the final write-up we publish on our blog, our social channels, and in other venues.

This is a paid, full-time fellowship that will last four months.

Responsibilities include:

Communicating with data maintainers to obtain data from them

Cleaning and enriching datasets

Building data models so that the data can easily be explored in Looker

Slicing datasets in multiple ways to identify the most interesting findings vWriting up findings in accessible, compelling language for a general audience

Working with designers to present data visually in support of written content

Qualifications:

Exceptional writing skills

Strong data analysis skills

Ability to self-manage and be productive with minimal supervision

Demonstrated drive for continuous learning and self-improvement

Nose for ferreting out stories that will have broad appeal

Strong editorial sense to pare stories down to their essential elements

Experience manipulating large datasets

Would be great:

Proficiency in SQL/RDBMS technologies

Familiarity with public datasets

Foundation in basic statistical analysis and/or machine learning techniques

To Apply:

Send your resume, along with 2-3 examples of articles you’ve written and/or data analyses you’ve completed todatajournalist@looker.com

https://looker.com/company/data-journalist