Data & Analytics Intern
Have you ever wanted to intern inside the cloud?
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want an intern who is passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love.
As an Analytics Intern, you will join a growing Data & Analytics team that collaborates with business partners across the organization to catalyze business growth by providing robust and relevant analysis, insights and actionable data-guided recommendations. The D&A team is hands-on with a wide variety of datasets, including user data, product behavior data, financial/payment data, upper-funnel marketing data, trust and safety data, and operational/infrastructure data.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Facilitate the transfer and ongoing automation and delivery of standardized data views and dashboards to our new self-service data exploration environment, curated to varying levels of management and leadership.
- Work closely with our Data Engineering team to ensure we have access to the relevant data and datasets that are going to power our new environment.
- Partner with our Business Intelligence engineer to help facilitate the construction of intuitive, user friendly data models.
- Evangelize and facilitate the use of data and insights across teams, including standardized KPIs and consistent measurement methodologies.
What We’ll Expect From You:
- On the path to earning a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field
- Demonstrable critical thinking and analytical skills, including the ability and confidence to make conclusions and recommendations from data
- Proactive communication skills and track record of setting and executing on clear, realistic deliverable timelines
- Experience building easily digestible data visualizations, dashboards and reports
- Strong Interpersonal skills for building and maintaining relationships
- Intermediate experience querying data (SQL), and ad hoc analysis (Excel)
- Experience with data modeling in Looker or other BI tool (e.g. Tableau)
- Bonus: Prior experience with Python and/or statistical modeling tools such as R or Matlab.
Why You’ll Like Being An Intern At DigitalOcean:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to be an intern here, and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We will offer intern meetups and outings throughout the program to connect you with your fellow interns and the DO community.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This role is a summer 2020 internship located in our NYC office.
Department: Data & Analytics
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