Data Journalist - Lifestyle

Red Hat • Seattle, WA

4d • $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 Lifestyle Data Journalist 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 viral trends, 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.
• Use proprietary and public data and real world observations and anecdotes to create content that establishes Redfin as an authority on home design aesthetics and trends in the way Americans are living.
• Be knowledgeable and opinionated about pop culture, home design aesthetics and trends in the ways Americans are living.
• We are looking for a creative thinker who is enthusiastic about staying on top of the zeitgeist and has ideas for how to make Redfin a part of it through fresh content.

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: 5,001-10,000 employees