Data Journalist

To have your work featured on the most prestigious media sites in the world. (Yes, even The New York Times.)

To break away from the mind-numbing confines of traditional marketing and PR, where your audience is always customers and your focus is always products and services.

To make good on your dream of becoming a writer, a journalist, a storyteller… and winning awards for your most creative work.

To work at a creative agency where the clients hire you not to promote them, but to produce the most interesting, entertaining, creative stories you can imagine.

Don’t miss this chance.

North Star Inbound seeks a Data Journalist (not a Content Strategist; we just have to play along with LinkedIn’s unimaginative algorithm) to produce digital PR campaigns. Daily, you will be brainstorming, researching, analyzing, writing, and art-directing content that millions of people will consume.

We want someone who’s a natural storyteller with great instincts for making headlines in the media. You’ll need to be as comfortable writing the perfect survey question as you are analyzing a menacing 35-tab spreadsheet of Census data.

You must be widely read, conversant in many subjects, and endlessly curious. You should know what the latest TikTok trend is and what notable cases the Supreme Court is hearing soon.

This is a dynamic role that requires strong time management skills and extraordinary attention to detail (see: your content will be read by millions of people).

Are you a creative marketer but tired of marketing stuff? Are you a shrewd reporter but tired of the limitations of your beat? Are you a content manager, content strategist, or any other stripe of worker who just happens to be looking for the coolest job in marketing? Well, you’ve found it.

Responsibilities:

Generate compelling concepts to develop into digital PR campaigns
Design interesting methodologies to tell exciting data stories
Research, design, vet, and validate methodologies and data sets for our studies
Ensure data is error-free and as authoritative as possible
Stay up-to-date on current news and cultural trends, identifying opportunities for stories
Produce data-based stories and reports using surveys, scrapes, and other types of analysis
Work with other creatives to produce great work and manage project timelines
Leverage freelance resources for data procurement, vetting, and analysis, as well as freelance design and editorial resources.
Manage several projects at different production phases, communicate statuses, and manage timelines effectively to ensure timely delivery.
Create compelling and evocative data visualizations in various formats with well-documented code.
Help the media relations team respond to journalists’ questions about data points and methodologies.

Required Skills:

Ambitious and temperamentally competitive about personal and agency work product
Team-oriented and highly collaborative
Ownership mindset
Effective ideator with a proven track record of producing compelling data stories
Fluent with sheets, excel, tableau, APIs, scraping data, python, R, or other coding languages.
Passionate news, culture, and lifestyle junkie with familiarity across a diverse set of topics
Exceptional storyteller and writer
Strong data analysis skills
Strong project management skills
Proven ability to solve problems in creative ways
Close attention to detail
Ability to juggle competing priorities and deadlines

Benefits we provide:

Health, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) with matching
Paid holidays
PTO
Bonuses for client referrals
Ultimate flexibility as we are a fully remote office.