Mediavine is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join our Engineering team. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving interesting problems and wants to work with a small team of talented engineers on a product used by thousands of publishers. Applicants must be based in the United States.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 8,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is ensuring your brand and business grow in every respect.

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

Diversity and inclusion aren't platitudes to us; we take them seriously.

Position Title & Overview

Mediavine’s Data & Analytics team is responsible for building the most effective platform and tools to help uncover opportunities in order to make informed decisions. We partner with Product, Support, Ad Operations and other teams within the Engineering department to understand behavior, develop accurate predictors and build solutions that provide the best internal and external experience possible.

As a more experienced member of the team, the Senior Data Analyst will bring their expertise in supporting the business by helping to guide direction through data based decisions. The Data & Analytics team consists of data analysts, data engineers and analytics engineers.

Our current analytics toolkit consists of Tableau, Metabase and dbt running on top of a Snowflake data warehouse. We are open to new tools and expect this position to play a major role in setting the direction we take.

Essential Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with the product, support, engineering and ad ops teams to develop analytic monitoring and measurement tools that meet immediate needs
• Develop self service tools that allow internal users to answer the next question beyond the initial ask
• Drive the analytics roadmap, which includes leading projects through all phases
• Increase our teams’ ability and comfort level in answering questions through mentorship, training, and better tooling
• Create visualizations to monitor business performance and uncover interesting trends for investigation
• Communicate requirements to the data engineers to ensure the platform can support the business needs
• Lead anomaly investigation helping other teams identify root cause and present findings
• Define and create exception based alerting that is meaningful for specific audiences along with investigation and remediation steps
• Lead the Test and Learn process we use for exploratory data analysis and A/B testing, this includes helping stakeholders decide on testing strategy, generating baselines, approximating sample sizes and performing analysis of test results
• Work with data and analytics engineers to standardize transformation logic in the dbt layer for consistency and ease of exploration by end users
• Drive data analysis code best practices and analysis standards
• As business needs change, be flexible in learning and applying your skills and experience on other product teams

Location:

• Applicants must be based in the United States

You have:

• 7+ years of experience in a data analyst role
• 5+ years of hands on experience working with SQL (CTEs, window functions, optimization)
• Experience with one or more major BI tools (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc.)
• Comfortable working with multi-TB cloud data warehouses (Big Query, Snowflake, Redshift)
• Experience with web analysis such as creating product funnels, user behavior, and paths
• Experience with designing and analyzing experiments including but not limited to A/B testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working on a distributed/remote team

Nice to haves:

• Experience with R or Python for creating data models or data manipulation
• Experience with dbt and Snowflake
• Knowledge of Ad Tech, Google Ad Manager and all of it’s fun quirks (so fun)
• The ability to make your teammates laugh (it wouldn’t hurt if you were fun to work with is what I’m saying)
• Experience with Domo
• Familiarity with event tracking systems (NewRelic, Snowplow, etc)

• Remote work environment
• Travel opportunities (remember those!?)
• Comprehensive benefits including 401k, Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Learning allowance
• Generous Vacation/Time off policies
• Additional side benefits such as home-office upgrades, tuition reimbursement, paid gym memberships and wellness retreats, upgraded flights, cool swag and more
• Company match charitable donations

Mediavine is an Equal Opportunity Employer