Temporary Data Analyst

About the role

Temporary Data Analyst position at wikiHow, part‑time with potential for longer‑term employment based on business needs. You will fill in for an employee on leave to keep operations running smoothly. The role is expected to last 3‑4 months, beginning in mid‑November, is fully remote, and requires availability during Pacific Time hours. Candidates must reside and perform all work within California, Oregon, or Washington.

Responsibilities

• Help design and monitor content experiments
• Gather, clean and analyze data from multiple sources to measure content performance
• Communicate performance results to multiple teams including senior leadership (both written and verbally)
• Provide weekly and monthly reporting
• Work with data warehousing (Big Query)
• Work across a number of proprietary and 3rd party analytic systems including GA4
• Create, optimize, update, and share data tools throughout the organization to improve business outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field OR 3+ years of analytical experience
• Keen analytical thinker who enjoys generating and testing hypotheses
• Proven ability to communicate data effectively, understanding that numbers alone don’t tell the full story
• Capable of working independently with minimal guidance while welcoming collaboration
• Detail‑oriented, persistent, and creative problem solver
• Fun to work with and able to not take yourself too seriously
• Deep passion for web analytics and data

Skills

• R programming skills within the tidyverse ecosystem (dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, etc.)
• Ability to wrangle data, craft visualizations, work with time series, and interface with APIs
• Ability to write SQL queries including exposure to complex CTEs, window functions, and query optimizations
• Understanding of statistics, especially experimentation and causal inference
• Experience communicating concepts to non‑technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with other scripting languages such as Python or PHP
• Familiarity with source control management systems (e.g., Git)
• Familiarity with AI systems

Benefits

Position is a temporary W‑2 employee with potential for longer‑term employment; not eligible for company health or retirement benefits, but includes state‑mandated paid sick leave where applicable.

Pay

$40‑$47 hourly rate, depending on location and experience.

Schedule

25 hours per week, remote work, required availability during Pacific Time hours; 3‑to‑4‑month term beginning mid‑November.