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Spice Data

Restaurant Data for the Enterprise

Product Specialist (New Grad)

$80K - $100K*0.10% - 0.50%*San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Product
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Richard Kreger
Richard Kreger
Founder
Richard Kreger
Richard Kreger
Founder

About the role

What you'll do

  * Apply strong product sense to clean raw data by creating and
    maintaining data mappings
  * Serve as the final quality checkpoint between our data pipeline
    and the data delivered to customers
  * Communicate with and manage third-party contractors that assist
    with data collection
  * Work from our downtown San Francisco office 5 days per week
    (Mon-Fri)

About you

  * Comfortable working with data in tools like Excel and performing
    basic data analysis
  * Highly organized and detail-oriented
  * A clear and concise communicator
  * Technical background is a plus, but not required
  * Proactive and willing to take initiative in ambiguous situations
  * Resourceful and able to figure things out independently
  * Careful and thorough, with a commitment to identifying and
    resolving issues at each stage of the work
  * Strong investigative instincts and the ability to dig into data
    to identify issues

Benefits

  * Lunch provided when in office
  * Unlimited PTO
  * 401k
  * Company paid Platinum PPO health and comparable dental & vision
    insurance
  * $80,000 - $100,000 salary, 0.1% - 0.5% equity

About the interview

  * 15-minute intro call about the position, your experience, and
    career goals
  * First 30-minute interview to review your data cleaning skills and
    thinking process
  * Second 30-minute interview focused data cleaning and
    problem-solving
  * Onsite visit to learn more about us and get a feel for how we'd
    work together
  * Offer extended

About Spice Data

  * The world's largest companies are buying more external data
  * We license data to leading Fortune 500 enterprises
  * Our product is not a particular dataset, but rather the ability
    to quickly collect, clean, and reliably provide high-quality data
    over time
  * We're currently focused on the restaurant industry
  * Founded in 2019 by Richard Kreger (CEO, enterprise sales) and
    Cameron Cairns (CTO, software engineer)
  * Very small team, all San Francisco-based
  * Raised only from YC and a couple angels (i.e. minimal dilution)
  * Profitable

Spice Data
Spice Data
Founded:2019
Batch:S19
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
  
 
Founders
Richard Kreger
Richard Kreger
 
 
Founder
Richard Kreger
Richard Kreger
 
 
Founder

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