Company Description

PayScale is the world leader in modern compensation software. Our rich data and unique algorithms power the world’s largest real-time database of salary profiles, giving both employers and employees immediate visibility into the right pay for any position. We are bringing the dark art of compensation into the light by helping more than 6,500 businesses to stay competitive in the labor market and retain and manage their largest investment: their people.

We’re disrupting the compensation industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals with diverse perspectives. We foster a playful work atmosphere where highly motivated individuals can be truly innovative. Are you bright, tenacious, and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

We are a fast-growing Warburg Pincus portfolio company who is thrilled to have brought the MarketPay product into our suite of offerings in 2016, and started a strategic alliance with Mercer in 2017. We can't wait for you to join us!

Job Description

Does the opportunity to work with a truly unique compensation dataset that comprises nearly a third of the U.S. working population excite you? What about working on important issues like pay equity?

The Data team at Payscale works on a variety of different problems that have a direct impact on people's lives by improving compensation practices. We are a small team working on high impact projects that drive innovation in our customer facing products and across the organization. The Data team partners closely with data scientists, engineers, compensation professionals, product managers, and other internal stakeholders to design and develop the data sets that power our compensation tools.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure the accuracy and quality of data sets by performing thorough and complex data analysis and validation
• Provide internal and external client support on all data sets including, answering questions on data methodology, pulling sample data and compiling reports, creating data visualization dashboards, and joining client calls.
• Own and drive various data analysis projects
• Work with cross functional teams to provide assistance on or insight to ongoing data analysis projects
• Understanding the ins and outs of our compensation datasets to become a subject matter expert on the various factors that influence pay.
• Opportunities to collaborate with data scientists and data engineers to expand your data analytics toolkit.

Technology we use: 

SQL, Snowflake, Tableau, Python (pandas, scikit-learn, NumPy, SpaCy, Git, JIRA, and Docker

Qualifications

• 1-3 years proven experience working with data
• Excellent excel skills and are comfortable with advanced functions including v-lookups, experience writing macros a plus
• A background in statistics, economics, mathematics or other related fields
• An aptitude for data and experience writing well structured queries to get information from disparate datasets; experience writing SQL queries a plus.
• Experience with Python or R
• Experience with data visualization skills – Tableau experience preferred
• Ability to effectively communicate and share results with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• A desire to be the best, with a positive work attitude and inquisitive nature. You will be working in a highly flexible and fast paced environment.

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks – The Highlights:

All around awesome culture where together we strive to:

• Pursue excellence every day
• Create customer value
• Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as:

• Regular virtual company meetings
• Coffee chats
• Table for 4 Executive conversation
• Spirit Week
• Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth
• Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut
• Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning
• As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include:

• Flexible Paid Time Off program – most employees average around 3 weeks per year
• 14 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day
• 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision
• Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program
• 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

PayScale provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. PayScale complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.