Responsibilities

• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core product
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
• Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches.
• The Product Analyst role has work across the following three areas:
• Product Operations
  • Setting goals
  • Designing and evaluating experiments monitoring key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics
  • Building and analyzing dashboards and reports
• Exploratory Analysis
  • Proposing what to build in the next roadmap
  • Understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends
  • Identifying levers to help move key metrics
  • Evaluating and defining metrics
  • Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems
• Product Leadership
  • Influencing product teams through presentation of work
  • Communicating of state of business, experiment results, etc to product teams
  • Spreading best practices to analytics and product teams

Requirements

• 4+ years experience doing data analysis
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other technical field. Advanced degrees preferred
• Experience in SQL or other programming languages
• Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner
• Strong understanding of comparative and predictive analysis
• Preferred experience with a statistical package such as R, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.
• Preferred experience with an Internet-based company
• Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop) a plus