Product Associate (New Grad)

About Spice Data: Spice Data is a data company that licenses information about the restaurant industry to major corporations. Founded in 2019 by Richard Kreger (CEO) and Cameron Cairns (CTO), the company has quickly become profitable and is growing steadily without raising venture capital. Their unique offering is not a single dataset but a robust system for data collection, cleaning, and delivery. This allows them to serve a wide range of clients in the food industry. The company’s infrastructure is built to handle large-scale data processing, with services written in Python and tools like Dagster for job orchestration. They have raised funding only from YC and angel investors, ensuring the team retains significant ownership.

About The Role: Clean, standardize, and transform raw data into high-quality data using existing processing pipelines. This role is perfect for someone interested in data quality and business processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Clean, standardize, and transform raw data into high-quality data using existing processing pipelines
• Review and analyze large datasets to identify bad data (duplicates, outliers, etc.)
• Communicate with and manage third-party contractors that assist with data collection
• Deliver data to customers in a timely manner
• Collaborate with Engineering to improve existing data pipelines

Requirements:

• Ideally, prior (internship) experience in management consulting, investment banking, or in a business, operations, or product role at an early-stage B2B startup
• Skills: Excel, Data Analysis
• Well organized
• Concise communicator
• Proactive & willing to take initiative
• Resourceful

Nice to Have: Familiarity with data processing tools or methodologies

Work Environment: Work from our downtown San Francisco office 4 days per week (Mon–Thu)