About the Organization
Pratham Books is a not-for-profit children’s book publisher that was set up in 2004 to publish good quality, affordable books in many Indian languages. Our mission is to see ‘a book in every child’s hand’ and we have spread the joy of reading to millions of children in India.
In the last few years, we have invested deeply in technology-based initiatives to further our mission. We are now looking for a Data Engineer as we significantly scale these initiatives.
About the Platform
StoryWeaver is a digital platform that hosts stories in languages from India and beyond, so that every child can have an endless stream of stories in her mother tongue to read and enjoy. The stories can be read, translated, versioned or downloaded for free. All stories on the platform and the platform source code are openly licensed. In two years, StoryWeaver has scaled from 800 stories in 24 languages to 22,000+ stories in 252 languages by engaging with a community of users. We want every child to have access to quality reading resources in their own language.
StoryWeaver is being recognized as an emerging innovation that can transform the early literacy reader ecosystem globally. Our vision is for StoryWeaver to be the largest multilingual open library in the world for children by empowering communities to address the scarcity of reading resources in their mother tongue languages and scale the quantity and quality of content being produced.
Job Description
We are looking for a passionate individual wanting to make a difference, one who believes that technology can be a powerful enabler in creating equitable access to resources. This role requires an individual contributor who can work effectively, both independently and collaboratively, in a team environment and deliver the project in a timely manner within allocated resources and budgets.
We are looking for a Data Engineer to work closely alongside our Product Development team and other internal teams. You will discover the insights within our data sets, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver better results for our end users.
In this role, you will be responsible for providing requirements for new features for collection of data, execute data validation checks, ensure data integrity, use statistical techniques to analyse and interpret data, take complete ownership of Google Analytics, identify trends and provide insightful reports to internal and external audience.
We’re looking for a self-motivated, detail-oriented individual who loves digging into data, developing insights and communicating data-based recommendations. You will work closely with the internal teams and tech partners to implement your recommendations, track the impact and course correct.
The position will report to the Senior Management of StoryWeaver. The person needs to be an out-of-the box thinker and should be a strong believer and propagator of use of open technologies.
The individual will be responsible for the following:
Work closely with internal product owners to understand the target audience and their motivations, generate the product enhancement, development ideas and requirements docs.
- Perform steps required to create analysis-ready data sets.
- Perform regular data analysis to demystify, assess readership, content gap, trends and performances.
- Extracting valuable insight from our data and generating analysis that drives user retention and conversion.
- Build a visualization tool that allows internal users to interactively explore the data and insights.
- Respond to ad-hoc report and analysis requests from other teams as needed.
- Take all data driven features to fruition by working closely with the product development teams.
- Be the bridge in between organization and other data-for-good communities.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Statistics, Market Research, Operational Research, or related quantitative discipline.
- Experience working with databases and dashboards
- Experience / Capability to draw insights from Data
- Experience working in data analytics.
- Good technical background with some hands-on experience with Python/R, relational databases (PostgreSQL) to perform data analysis.
- Ability to interpret findings through data visualization and delivery of presentations to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Expertise with Google Analytics and common Data Visualization platforms like Tableau, Apache Superset, Google DataStudio etc.
- Strong analytical thought process, ability to extract data and transform it into valuable, actionable insight.
- 1-3 years of experience in the industry
Nice to have but not mandatory
- Experience working with non-profits.
- Experience with Machine Learning.
Location: It is a full-time position based out of Bangalore.
Salary: Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Interested candidates can email their resume to [email protected]
This blog covers the growth of e-books and audiobooks ever so often. But here comes a view from someone who doesn’t know why they don’t work for him…
I have listened to many books in audio format. Mostly science fiction or crime. I commute in a bus 45 minutes one way to work – which happens to also be the average length of a chapter/episode. So I manage 2 episodes a day.
While traveling in a bus, I find this better than reading a book since the roads might be bumpy, etc. + plus it’s also good rest for my eyes (need that after a whole day of computer work) as I keep them closed and my head down.
I know that a lot of people also listen to the same material while driving to/from work – they might plug in their mp3 players to the car audio system, or just keep the headphones on.
While traveling longer distances though, I do prefer a book or good sleep 🙂
@Sameer. I’d have to agree with you on this. I tend to listen to a lot of ‘written’ content in audio form and it’s so much more convenient!
Audio books and eBooks works very well for me….
Book is a Book…. whether it is in e Form, paper form or audio form. The content is the king. Having said that, when it comes to audio book, the narrator’s skills has a crucial role to play in capturing the attention of the listener. Brief music supporting the moods of the book should be provided to enhance the effect. Most importantly, the length of each chapter has to be very carefully looked into to make sure that even with exellent narration, the listener does not get put off. Since most of us in India (and perhaps elsewhere too) are so used to “reading books” the traditional way, it may take a while to change the habbit. With the buzy life style if it become more and more difficult to eek out time to “read” the books, the audio books will certainly find its way to the book shelf (on mp3 players/mobiles etc).