Data Analyst Intern

Join our award-winning team of data scientists and engineers who are tackling the biggest problems in our global food systems and are pioneering disruptive innovations using AI and machine learning.

About You

You are looking for career growth and want to pioneer new technologies that will have a positive impact on the world. You love fast-paced environments, collaboration, are self-motivated and think outside the box.

Internship Eligibility

• Be between the ages of 15 and 30, inclusive, at the start of the internship
• Be a post-secondary graduate,
• Not be in receipt of EI during the course of the work placement,
• Be legally entitled to work in Canada as a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or person who has been granted refugee status,
• Reside, physically work in BC, or have plans to return to BC,
• Not have completed a DS4Y work placement in their lifetime, and
• Self-assess as underemployed, meaning employed below their level of education and/or hold part-time employment, or are unemployed

About Us

At ThisFish, we are passionate about building a data-driven future for sustainable seafood. Our mission is to improve profitability and sustainability in the seafood industry through digitization, traceability and innovation. We are committed to helping bring this ancient industry into the Digital Age to ensure it will continue to feed generations to come.

About The Opportunity

ThisFish Inc. has developed Tally software for seafood factories that digitizes their production, quality control and traceability data in real-time on the factory floor using tablets and IoT devices.

We are now beginning to build our white-labelled BI offering. As a data analyst intern, you will help us with building reporting dashboards for our customers, data analysis, and monitoring of ETL pipelines.

Since our BI suite is in its early stages, you would have an opportunity to influence the project in terms of tool choices and research. Our data comes from seafood manufacturers and the analytics problems revolve around questions about production efficiency

Responsibilities

• You will work in collaboration with the data scientists and engineers to build analytics dashboards and visualizations
• You will be responsible for researching and developing analytics solutions using appropriate methodologies

Compensation & Benefits

• Flexible Work Environment. We offer the opportunity to work from home with flexible hours. If you are self-motivated and goal oriented, then you’ll love the autonomy of our work culture.
• Learning and Mentorship: Self-improvement, mentorship and career growth are core to our values. We are a growing company and you’ll be able to grow your career with us.
• Salary: $4,000 per month
• Duration: 6 month internship with possibility for permanent employment

Knowledge & Skills

• Demonstrable skills in any of the major BI tools like Tableau, Domo or Power BI
• Experience with databases and SQL
• Experience with data analysis

Core Competencies

• Respect: You contribute to a happy, productive workplace; you appreciate (and share) diverse and even dissenting opinions; and you can build trusting relationships.
• Ownership: You take initiative, are self-motivated and strive for excellence in everything you do.
• Curiosity: You have the courage to ask questions, think outside the box and build disruptive innovations.
• Collaboration: You help build a common purpose, foster an inclusive culture and put the team first.

Additional Competencies

As a data analyst intern, you’ll be expected to excel at these competencies:

• Communication: You can clearly and confidently communicate complex issues and translate data analysis to domain experts and stakeholders.
• Results Driven: You can focus your work on practical and timely results that lead directly to commercial outcomes.
• Organization: You are highly organized with traceable results and strong documentation.

We are a globally distributed, multicultural team originally from nine different countries (and counting!). We believe a diversity of cultures and experiences makes us stronger and generates more inclusive and lasting solutions.

We promote employment equity and welcome all candidates regardless of culture, race, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, economic class, physical ability or other status. Join our team to explore the world.

Contract length: 6 months