Community Lead

Community Lead

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As the Community Lead, you will be responsible for data.world’s open data community strategy, and open data catalog efforts. You will take part in developing certain aspects of the data architecture, and will serve as a resource between our community, data, and the platform. You will manage data.world’s dataset catalog composed of over 500K datasets by contributing more data to the catalog, maintaining the current datasets, and engaging the data.world community with data projects curated and developed by you.

As someone who will be working intimately with the data, you will also be available to assist our community and clients with data related needs, or find them the resources they need. Depending on the task, you may find yourself working closely with Data Scientists, Product Managers, Software Engineers, Account Managers, or the Executive Team.

As an ideal candidate, you’re open-minded and motivated, and you’ve had experience working in a bustling startup or have a strong desire to do so. You have a passion for making data easier to use and a strong desire to be part of a team that is exploring uncharted territories in semantic web technology. Possessing an understanding of developing schemas and implementing ontologies, and a love for data and understanding of a positive user experience will make you a great candidate for this role.

At data.world you will:

  • Maintain data catalog
  • Assist with data partnerships and projects
  • Respond to clients’ data related needs
  • Perform data modeling and organization

We'd like to see:

  • Either an education in Library and Information Sciences (MLIS), Information Management, or related experience or credentials such as a Certificate in Data Science or Data Engineering, a proven track record building/maintaining communities of technical stakeholders, or other experience in the data ecosystem
  • A strong understanding of content management and data preservation
  • Experience working with a variety of technical stakeholders, including customers
  • Someone who is comfortable with public speaking and regular networking through both written and verbal presentations and correspondence
  • Experience working in a highly collaborative workspace, and the willingness to reach out to various team members for answers and ideas
  • Experience building SQL or SPARQL queries (Python/R experience a substitute)
  • Knowledge of building or running a community, generating new ideas to cultivate activity
  • Familiarity with Git/Github and other relevant communities

Big pluses include:

  • Basic familiarity of Python/R
  • Familiarity with semantic editing tools and implementing semantic models using RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS
  • Familiarity with the open data movement
  • Technical writing experience
  • Familiarity with the data.world platform

Perks and benefits:

  • Competitive market compensation with a generous bonus structure
  • Fully paid health/dental/vision insurance for the whole family
  • Charitable corporate programs and volunteer events throughout the year
  • Open PTO, and a personalized wellness incentive
  • Lots of regularly scheduled team events including game nights, rock climbing, and cocktail competitions - even virtually for now!
  • A flexible work environment
  • A tight-knit team of startup veterans with integrity, passion, and curiosity for days

If you have the exceptional combination of skills and qualities that we are looking for, then we’re excited to meet you!

Note: We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

We are the world’s largest collaborative data community and we very much believe that our people need to represent the very diverse nature of the community we are serving and customer base we are winning. We believe that diversity leads to the most creative discussions, ideas, and outcomes.

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