The Role

Bloomberg Businessweek is seeking a Data Editor to join the team that covers business school and higher ed. The data editor will be responsible for our annual research and evaluation projects, including the design of and data collection for our Best Business Schools product. This person will work with internal and external partners to develop and improve our current data collection and survey methodologies, work with outside data providers and analysts when necessary, communicate with the schools that participate in our rankings, and collaborate with our internal product, engineering and design teams.

Our ideal candidate is an analytics whiz with strong writing and communication skills, ideally some experience in journalism or writing for non-technical audiences. This person will improve the research products we have and create new ones, and be able and eager to turn data, analysis and ideas into sparkling content. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, news judgment, and a sense of humor.

Qualifications:

• A record of academic achievement, ideally an MBA or M.S. with an area of focus in one of the following areas: statistics, economics, sociology, political science, or business.
• 2-5 years of experience with survey methodology and survey operations, such as questionnaire design and data analysis.
• Knowledge and application of relevant software (i.e. SPSS, SAS, SQL, R, Excel, visualization software).
• Excellent writing and editing skills, especially the ability to communicate about survey findings to non-technical audiences. Journalism a plus.

The Company

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.