Data Analyst (m/f/d)

Who are we?

The Pioneer is a new type of digital media company in the heart of Berlin. Its focus is on innovative and independent journalism covering business and politics – always up-to-date, always relevant. In addition to founder and publisher Gabor Steingart, our hosts include former Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and bestselling author Juli Zeh. With the world's first media ship, we've created a floating office that travels through Berlin's government district – always at the forefront of current events.

What you will do with us

As a Data Analyst at The Pioneer, you bridge the gap between data and strategic decisions. You make complex relationships understandable, derive clear insights, and translate them into storylines and concrete recommendations for action. In doing so, you actively contribute to shaping our product, editorial, and marketing strategies. Furthermore, we are currently developing Pioneer AI Analyst: an AI-powered solution that gives teams easy access to their data, for example, via tools like Claude or ChatGPT. With this, you not only bring analytical excellence but also help further develop the way we work with data at The Pioneer.

• Storytelling with data: You analyze user behavior, content performance, web and app data, brand perception, and communication channels. In doing so, you identify relevant trends and optimization potential and derive data-driven recommendations for strategy and product development.
• Stakeholder Management: You work closely with management, growth, marketing, product and editorial teams, making data and insights understandable and usable for different teams.
• Data Architecture & Development: You will have the opportunity to delve deeper into data modeling and architecture and continuously develop our data model. You will also build self-service dashboards in our BI tool, which will support teams in making independent, data-driven decisions.
• Tracking: You will share responsibility for our Google Analytics setup and ensure clean, reliable tracking.

What you bring

• You have a completed degree with an analytical focus, for example in business informatics, data science, statistics or business administration with a data focus.
• You bring professional experience in the field of data or business analytics – ideally in dealing with web and app data from the marketing, content or product environment.
• You already have experience with common BI tools such as QuickSight, Power BI or Tableau.
• Ideally, you have some initial experience with Google Analytics, tracking implementations, and tag management.
• You have solid SQL knowledge, can write your own queries, and understand data models. Experience with dbt is a plus.
• You enjoy working cross-functionally and bringing together different perspectives.
• You have very good German skills, both spoken and written.

Why us in particular?

• We value initiative. You take responsibility for topics that are important to you and drive them forward yourself. In a phase of The Pioneer's steady growth, you will actively shape what independent journalism in Germany looks like.
• A unique work environment: You'll work on board our media ships overlooking the Spree River. For your day-to-day work, you also have access to our office in beautiful Charlottenburg.
• You get direct access to our live formats and events and experience guests from politics and business live and up close on site.
• Full commitment requires fully charged batteries. With Urban Sports Club, we ensure that you stay active outside of work and find your personal balance.
• Whatever you do with us, you do it with a secure foundation of permanent employment, fair remuneration and 30 days of vacation per year.

About Us

The news portal The Pioneer has been the common platform for all journalistic publications of the media company Media Pioneer Publishing AG since May 2020 .

Awarded “Startup of the Year” (European Publishing Awards 2020), we are considered one of the most exciting media projects in Europe.

Our best-known format, “The Pioneer Morning Briefing,” reaches up to 1 million people every morning as a newsletter and podcast, making it “Germany’s No. 1 Morning Briefing.”

Besides founder and publisher Gabor Steingart, our hosts include former Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and journalists Chelsea Spieker and Alev Doğan . Many more formats are in the planning stages.

The Pioneer One , the world's first media ship , serves as a floating newsroom, production site and stage for live journalism for our crew, traveling daily on the Spree River or throughout Germany.