Senior Data Analyst Webs

Type: Full Time

The Analytics Team serves various departments; including marketing, product, and finance; by providing data, analysis, and recommendations for key business initiatives. Major projects include ongoing randomized control testing, product impact measurement, and customer profiling and behavioral analysis. The ideal candidate will be someone who can work with a variety of data sources to access and pull data, analyze and report on key findings & questions, and recommend and drive new avenues for research and testing. We are looking for someone with the creativity and business sense to help us find real opportunities and ask ever more demanding questions of our data. Finally, while not absolutely required, experience working for a technology or internet company is highly desired.
Core Responsibilities:

Write and interpret complex SQL queries for standard and ad-hoc data mining
Create and maintain executive reports for tracking key business metrics
Work closely with analytics, marketing, and other teams to drive test iterations
Identify holes in current data collection and practices
Seek out trends and patterns across large sets of data and from multiple sources
Summarize and report key analytical findings and recommendations in both oral and written form to various teams and executives
Conceive of and pursue new data mining opportunities and initiatives to drive business metrics

Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
Experience with relational databases, SQL, regular expressions, etc.
Strong Excel and data presentation skills
Interest in discrete math and statistics
Ability to map data and analytical functions to business needs
Ability not just to retrieve and present data, but to draw conclusions and make recommendations
Passionate and motivated to work in a fast-paced environment with limited supervision

Pluses:

Experience working for a technology or internet company
Ability to write MapReduce functions
Experience with statistical software packages (SAS, SPSS, STATA, R, etc.)
Knowledge of web analytics suites (Google Analytics, Omniture, etc.).

Location:	Silver Spring, MD United States