Data Journalist - Housing Market

Description

• This writer will be responsible for writing and publishing several of Redfin’s established monthly and quarterly reports about trends in housing market activity.
• 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.
• 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.
• This role will be focused on reporting on Redfin’s trove of data about national and local housing market trends, in real time.
• There will also be plenty of opportunities to identify and report on emerging housing market trends.

Requirements

• Comfortable with a fast paced, quick turnaround work environment.
• Strong analytical skills: you’re able to dig out big-picture stories from a spreadsheet or a handful of anecdotes.
• Be just as comfortable collaborating with data scientists and economists to pair anecdotes with data to report on emerging trends in real time.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 3 years working in online media or print journalism. Experience writing about housing and real estate topics is a plus.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance