Data Analyst, Forbes Vetted

Forbes Vetted is seeking an experienced data analyst to join Forbes Vetted (Forbes’ product review and recommendations site). This role will report directly to the Executive Director of Data, Revenue, and Product and will be responsible for helping the Forbes Vetted editorial team drive meaningful advances in affiliate revenue by tracking relevant data points to improve key metrics, providing insights and recommendations based on the data and sharing accurate and actionable reports and dashboards. 

*This role can be remote or based in Jersey City office

Responsibilities will include:

• Providing insights, trends and recommendations to the Forbes Vetted editorial team that will allow us to drive more revenue
• Analyzing and compiling insights from large data sets to provide retrospective learnings after key tentpole events like Amazon Prime Day and Cyber Monday
• Collaborating with product teams to optimize page layouts, implement tracking solutions and build technology solutions to gather deeper consumer insights
• Using tools such as Looker and affiliate networks like Amazon Associates, Rakuten and Skimlinks to compile data
• Setting up additional tools, reports and dashboards to allow the Forbes Shopping editorial team to get feedback on their content
• Helping onboard new networks and vendors to ensure data is accurately captured in our dashboards and reporting
• Working closely with the BI team to expand our Looker reporting

The ideal candidate:

• 3+ years of data experience, preferably at a publisher with a commerce operation
• Preferred: experience working directly with editorial teams, especially when providing data & insights
• Strong analytical skills, an insatiable curiosity, and creative problem-solving skills
• A desire and willingness to learn tools quickly and to dig deeper to discover new and better ways of surfacing insights
• Ability to take complex data and present it in a way that makes sense to an editorial team
• A collaborative work style with strong desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment that requires flexibility and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Confident and articulate, comfortable making their strategic viewpoints heard
• Experience with Excel required
• Experience with Looker or other BI tools required
• A good sense of humor and willingness to help build a fun team culture

Forbes believes in the power of entrepreneurial capitalism and uses it on various platforms to ignite the conversations that drive systemic change in business, culture and society. We celebrate success and are committed to using our megaphone to drive diversity, equity and inclusion. We are the world’s biggest business media brand and we consistently place in the top 20 of the most-popular sites in the United States, in good company with brands like Netflix, Apple and Google. In short, we have a big platform and we use it responsibly.

The annual salary range for this role is $65,000 to $75,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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