(Senior) Data Analyst (all genders) ☠️

Are you a (Senior) Data Analyst who likes to provide data and insights and gets excited by a strong team culture? You might be just who we’re looking for!

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Summary

Team: Data Platform Team
Position: (Senior) Data Analyst
Location/Remote-Work: The work style is hybrid: You can work from home, but you should live in the broader Hamburg area to be able to occasionally attend team meetings on-site.
Languages: German and English (B2 is the minimum level for both)
Status: Actively hiring

Who We’re Looking For

We’re searching for a (Senior) Data Analyst, to supplement our data platform team. You’ll transform our raw data into clean, analysis-ready datasets, develop and document clear data models in close collaboration with our business stakeholders. This powers critical business decisions across a scaled, leading company in the US package delivery market. Ideally, you have 3-5 years (Senior = 5+ years) of experience analyzing data in a role involving business, growth, or product analysis. Sounds like a fit? Perfect! Here's where your knowledge will come in handy:

  • Experience with a modern Data Intelligence Platform stack like Databricks (this is our choice) or Snowflake OR Data Warehousing tools like BigQuery or Redshift.
  • Proficient in SQL, working with complex datasets.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business questions into insights.
  • Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker or QuickSight.
  • Proven track record of building KPI dashboards that drive critical business decisions.
  • Educate stakeholders (CxO, Product, Engineering) on best practices for producing and using data products.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to drive alignment across teams in multiple countries.

Nice-to-have:

  • Ability to design and maintain dimensional data models to support business intelligence and reporting needs.
  • Knowledge of A/B experimentation and how to perform statistical analysis.
  • Enjoys mentoring and knowledge sharing across the team.

You can check out our full tech stack in our Tech Radar.

Since we work in cross-functional teams, mastering every area is not necessary. What matters most is that you share our values and are a good fit with our crew. We value personal development and provide the space for it. Strong English language skills are essential, as we regularly communicate with colleagues in the US and write documentation in English. At work, we communicate mostly in German, but we can all speak English. If you speak pirate that wouldn’t hurt either – YYYAAAARRRRrrrrrr!

The Team and Domains

We're currently forming another platform team (in line with Team Topologies) where you will set your anchor. Your expertise will have a company-wide impact on our crew, like the product managers and the marketing and analytics team. In addition to ongoing work, this team will tackle projects in the following areas:

  • Identifying the root causes behind business trends to solve complex commercial problems, for example, investigating why the conversion rate dropped.
  • Make product metrics (data) usable, like behavioral data, churn rate, retention rate, and build a KPI tree to support our product teams making data-informed decisions.
  • Partnering with Product Engineering and act as an important link between product teams and the data platform.
  • Fraud prevention is a strategically important topic. This includes analyzing user activity, identifying indicators of fraud, recognizing patterns, and incident response / mitigation.
  • Supporting our marketing in the US with an attribution model. Which channel should we use? How much budget is a sensible investment?
  • Support LLM-based data products in Databricks to optimize CX workflows and improve customer interactions.

Who we are

Since our founding in 2014, we’ve been disrupting the package shipping market in the US with our software.

Our mission is to make the complex parcel shipping process as simple, user-friendly, and affordable as possible. We operate in multiple locations in the US and serve the American market exclusively. However, the development of our web app has always had its home base in Hamburg-Ottensen.

Together with our overseas colleagues, we work daily to deliver the best possible product for our users. This is what we're valued for, and it’s the wind in our sails.

Our Values & Culture

As an owner-managed company with a crisis-proof product in a growth-oriented market, we can combine high-quality standards, attention to detail, and an attractive working environment with great conditions. We believe creativity and room for personal ideas provide the optimal environment for innovation, progress, and quality. Trust and helpfulness, combined with many opportunities to take on responsibility, enable personal growth. This means working with little hierarchy and a pull, not push, approach to tasks.

This agile, self-organized way of working requires a high level of personal responsibility and enthusiasm for close teamwork. We give each other quick feedback and aren’t afraid of conflict, but always find fair, solution-oriented consensus. In doing so, we learn a lot from each other, and value diversity as opportunity.

To ensure long-term collaboration, we do everything possible to make family and work compatible.

What Doesn’t Fit

You won’t be happy here if you expect complete, end-to-end processes like in large corporations. On our ship, some things are still not perfectly tied down, but we work together to improve systematically. You’ll also be unhappy if you’re a lone wolf, apathetic, or expect to be told exactly what to do. And if you happen to be a macho, fascist, or conspiracy theorist, you’ll be quickly keelhauled!

Anything Else?

We haven’t listed the usual perks like free fruit, beer, foosball, or ball pits. If you’d like those, let’s chat. We either already have them or can make them happen!

We offer the following conditions:

  • You decide whether to work remotely or on-site at our Hamburg-Ottensen office
  • We’re only hiring in Hamburg and surrounding areas, as we occasionally meet in person for special events
  • Part-time work is possible
  • 30 days of vacation
  • We have a flexible working time model
  • We offer an extensive budget of EUR 3000 per year for learning through conferences or trainings
  • Regarding development environments: we use a lot of macOS, but also ARRRrrrch Linux and Ubuntu. Windows isn’t supported and isn’t planned. You’ll work with a MacBook or ThinkPad. Most of us use PHPStorm, Vim, or VS Code for development.

Next Steps

If you think you’d be a good fit for our team, feel free to reach out via anheuern@pirateship.com

What to expect

  • Introduction call (50-60min): Spend time with our Engineering Manager, align on the responsibilities of the role, and answer your questions.
  • Get to know the team (50-60min): You'll meet the Software Engineers and Product Manager on the team and learn more about the current challenges.
  • Technical Deep-Dive discussion (60-90min): You'll get to solve a little coding challenge at home as a conversation starter for a technical Deep-Dive discussion afterward.
  • Offer to come on board (30 min): At this point, the team is excited about you.