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 developing a scalable data strategy and building the team that executes it. Data is one of our most important assets, and your team will enable better decision-making for all teams 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 the head of our data team, 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 store and interpret data for years to come!
2. Develop and architect significant changes. You will have the freedom to be creative and architect/develop data solutions for business problems. 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 Manager?

• Lead a team responsible for data engineering and analysis for key business problems
• Create quarterly plans and operationalize them in lean sprints for the data team
• Examine existing pools of data to identify gaps and opportunities, and propose changes
• Identify risks to data privacy and security and implement processes to prevent breach or loss
• Develop company wide data strategy and architecture to keep up with Makeship’s growth
• Foster a culture of data-curious decision-making across our growing organization
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and other departments from prototype to production
• Implement frameworks and processes to ensure data pipelines and reporting are accurate
• Break down complex analyses into digestible insights for founders and executives

This might be for you if you have…

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in data engineering and/or analysis
• At least 2 years of managing teams that report directly to you
• Strong business and technical intuitions, with an ability to quickly learn new technologies
• An ability to break down complex questions into a clear methodology
• Ample experience with KPIs and reporting to executive stakeholders
• Interest in the content creation space: art, animation, gaming, and entertainment!
• Proven experience in building databases, warehouses, pipelines, visualizations, and/or ETL
• A strong understanding of relational databases, data storage, and data manipulation
• A strong ability wrangle data and find answers complex real-world questions
• Experience with cloud native infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with BI tools like Google Data Studio, Power BI, etc
• Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• An ability to gather information and requirements yourself, in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have....

• Worked in a fast-paced startup or similar environment
• API expertise for Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Worked with data from Shopify, Hubspot, or Airtable APIs.
• Experience with our technology stack (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, AWS, GCS)
• Prior experience building and scaling ML solutions

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.