Location: Remote, USA

Quartz Media, a global News organization, is seeking an Audience Insights Data Analyst to join our Analytics team. This newly created position will play a vital part of our new data and insights strategy. This role will take ownership of our customer data, audience insights, and will become the voice of analytics across different teams in the company. In this role, you will contribute directly to our revenue by surfacing and championing data-driven insights to our Product, Editorial, and Advertising sales teams. You will own third-party audience insights platforms, and leverage them to inform our client and drive a better understanding of how our readers engage with Quartz. You will also drive improvements in our first-party data strategy by crafting audience surveys and maintaining our first-party profile data. In short, you will become the de facto expert on Quartz readers and advocate for them across the entire organization with data-driven insights.

Quartz is physically headquartered in New York City but is fully distributed and very remote-friendly. We are on a mission to make business better, and that starts with our own teams. We place a high value on creating an environment filled with a wide variety of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. We do not look for candidates that will fit our culture, but rather those that can add to our culture.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze and enrich Quartz’s proprietary first-party data to generate audience insights and transform them into compelling narratives that offer nuance and unique conclusions.
• Own and maintain third-party audience research tools (Ipsos, Telmar, ComScore)
• Support the Advertising Sales team troubleshoot complex audience inquiries from advertising clients through detailed data analysis.
• Drive our member engagement survey program by creating and co-designing surveys on content consumption preferences, product testing, and general audience profile information.
• Work collaboratively across the organization with key stakeholders to inform product, marketing, and advertising strategies based on audience data and insights.
• Create and contribute to marketing materials using audience data and insights to further strengthen advertising pitch proposals.

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience with survey design techniques, statistical methods, and creating sound experimentation.
• Excellent communication skills with a strong ability to create a compelling narrative from data-driven insights.
• Able to analyze complex situations from a strategic level and execute technical analysis with precision and accuracy.
• Experience leading multiple projects simultaneously 
• A strong desire constantly be improving whether it is systems, processes, or even yourself
• Excellent storytelling, communications (written and verbal), and presentation skills.

Technical Skills:

• Highly proficient in SQL; experience with Python or R a big plus.
• Comfort with statistical modeling (linear regression, logit regression, ANOVA)
• Proficiency with data visualization and database design concepts
• Experience creating dashboards and reports with business intelligence tools (Looker / Tableau)
• Experience in audience and data analytics within the media industry.
• Firm grasp of mathematical concepts and basic statistical analysis. 
• Strong business tool proficiency (MS Office and Google Office tools)

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Quartz is an innovative and digitally native global business news organization founded in 2012 to serve a new kind of purpose-driven leader through smart, insightful business analysis with a mission to make business better. Our journalists around the world help our readers discover new industries, new markets, and new ways of doing business that are more sustainable, innovative, and inclusive. Our portfolio includes our flagship site qz.com, along with Quartz at Work, Quartz Africa, Quartz India, and Quartz Japan editions, emails such as the Quartz Daily Brief, the Memo from Quartz at Work, Need to Know: Coronavirus, Quartz Africa Weekly Brief, and Quartz Daily Obsession, Quartz at Work from home workshops, Make business better event series, and an iOS app.

Quartz Values

We look for team members who embody the following values:

• Boldness and creativity. There’s an opportunity to build something new every day, and we always aim to produce great and inspiring work.
• Taking ownership. We experiment thoughtfully, challenge ourselves to uphold high standards, and leave things better than we found them. 
• Users first. Communicating with empathy means making sure your message isn’t just sent but received, and emphasizing clarity in our journalism. 
• A more global world. Quartz was created for people who are curious about the world far beyond themselves, reject nationalist ideology, and believe that all cultures play a vital role in the global economy. 

Quartz is committed to building a team that includes a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. We aim to be a place where a diverse mix of dedicated people will want to come, to stay, and do their best work. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not required. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family orientation, marital status, country of origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by local, state, or federal laws.

Quartz Media, Inc., is an EOE of Minorities/Women/Vets/Disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.