Data Journalist - Housing Market

Redfin • Seattle, WA

18h • $84,900 - $127,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team! As a Data Journalist - Housing Market reporting to the Editor-in-Chief of Redfin News, you’ll use Redfin’s robust real estate data and novel insights to educate consumers and drive news on a range of topics from home decor to housing affordability and generational attitudes about homeownership. As a member of the communications team, you’ll partner with our economics team and real estate agents to create data-driven content that is informative and shareable. This role requires someone who can juggle multiple stories at once and produce high-quality content at volume.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 3 years working in online media or print journalism.
• Strong analytical skills: you’re able to dig out big-picture stories from a spreadsheet or a handful of anecdotes.
• Writer, storyteller: you’re able to churn out easy-to-read articles that are not only grammatically correct and typo-free, but make complex topics easy to understand.
• Proficient at using word processing, data visualization and blog publishing software and tools to write drafts, shepherd them through the editing process and publish articles.
• Solid understanding of SEO and GEO.
• Comfortable with a fast paced, quick turnaround work environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing about housing and real estate topics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Write compelling, newsworthy, data-driven articles about a range of housing and lifestyle-related topics that are interesting to national media, the real estate industry and consumers.
• Be able to produce consistently high-quality content on a schedule, react quickly to news cycles, and manage time and workload independently.
• Be comfortable getting on the phone with Redfin real estate agents, customers, and other industry experts to uncover and report on real estate trends and insights.
• Be just as comfortable collaborating with data scientists and economists to pair anecdotes with data to report on emerging trends in real time.
• This role will be focused on reporting on Redfin’s trove of data about national and local housing market trends, in real time.
• This writer will be responsible for writing and publishing several of Redfin’s established monthly and quarterly reports about trends in housing market activity.
• There will also be plenty of opportunities to identify and report on emerging housing market trends.
• The person in this position will be encouraged to become familiar with and explore proprietary and public datasets and to regularly pitch and own new one-off and recurring report topics.

Benefits

• The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees