About the Company

Makeship exists to empower influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their product to life through our community-powered crowd-funding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing. We're profitable, have grown the team from 2 to 70 people in 4 years, and we’re growing at an average annual growth rate of 200%+.

About the Role

As an early member of the Data Team, you’ll play a huge role building reliable and flexible systems for data reporting at Makeship. Data is one of our most important assets, and you will unlock the insights required for decision-making across the company. Every day, you’ll collaborate cross-functionally, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work make a measurable impact.

We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, and invest deeply in your personal growth.

Why this Role?

1. Have a massive impact on the company. As our first data analyst hire, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to lead and implement technical projects. Your contributions will be felt right away, and will affect how we interpret data for years to come!
2. Develop and architect significant changes. You will have the freedom to be creative and develop a data analysis and reporting stack. This will challenge you to think about your design and bring your own ideas to life.
3. Join us at an epic time. We’re a profitable and growing startup with millions in revenue. We’ve bootstrapped the company from 2 to 70 employees in 4 years. Join us and experience exponential personal and career growth!

So, what will you do at Makeship as a Data Analyst?

• Design, develop and maintain dashboards for regular reporting of core business metrics
• Troubleshoot and validate data pipelines for large blended data sets, to increase reporting accuracy
• Consult with cross-functional teams to understand needs and translate business questions into analyses
• Design experiments and methodologies for A/B tests, product launches, and other innovation
• Collaborate with data engineering and product teams to improve ETL and data warehousing infrastructure
• Write and maintain documentation on analyses and reporting pipelines
• Lead ad-hoc investigations and present opportunities and bottlenecks to the founders

This might be for you if you have…

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in data analysis or business intelligence
• Interest in the content creation space: art, animation, gaming, and entertainment!
• Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• An ability to gather information and requirements yourself, in a fast-paced environment
• Proven experience in building business reporting, dashboards, and ETL
• A solid understanding of relational databases, data storage, and data manipulation
• A strong ability wrangle data and find answers complex real-world questions
• Experience with BI tools like Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, etc
• Experience with cloud native infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Bonus points if you have....

Experience with our technology stack (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, AWS, GCS)

• Advanced skills in data scripting and database development technologies (SQL, Python, R)
• Experience building data pipelines and warehouses.
• Worked with eCommerce data or data from Shopify, Google Analytics 4, or Hubspot.
• Worked in a startup or similar environment.

Benefits & Perks

• Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs
• Health and dental benefits 100% employer-paid
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 1 week of paid time off during the holidays
• 2 mental health and wellness days
• Paid time off on your birthday
• Monthly phone allowance
• $400 home office setup allowance
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up program
• Learning and development opportunities
• Employee referral program

Makeship is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.