Data Analyst

Position Title: Data Analyst

About the role

LTK’s Insights & Analytics team is an integral component of the company’s overall mission.  As a Data Analyst, you will work cross-functionally across LTK to provide insights to optimize the business and assess the execution of and impact of initiatives.   You inherently are creative, analytical, and technically proficient with a strong desire to solve problems while balancing the dynamics of business and tech.  Your innate curiosity drives you to tell the story from A-to-Z for LTK’s business.

In this role, you will be part of a growth-hungry, acceleration-minded team of problem-solvers and product-builders on the  Foundational Analytics squad within the LTK Insights & Analytics hub.  This person will collaborate to generate actionable insights that impact all areas of the business and ultimately drive revenue by conducting complex analyses and monitoring performance on a daily basis.  You will be responsible for gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources and will apply your strategic and analytical skills to high visibility company challenges.  You will be responsible for gathering and analyzing affiliate data from multiple sources and will apply your strategic and analytical skills to high visibility company challenges:

• Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
• Support analysis and targeting of business teams’ efforts through modeling, customer segmentation and profiling, and data mining
• Go beyond creating reporting dashboards -- identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex data sets, then summarize key findings and propose action plans
• Evaluate business performance, diagnose root causes, and prescribe action informed by data-driven insights that will set our sales strategy and process improvement roadmap
• Identify the development needs to streamline and improve the operations of the organization for efficiency and profitability
• Create, maintain, and manage critical data and metrics documentation used across the organization 
• Identify and communicate business trends, update scorecards and produce ad-hoc reports to enable informed decisions related to improving performance

How you will make an impact

• Be a champion of data throughout the organization through the creation of standardized metrics, intuitive dashboards, and compelling business insights
• Be able to extract data out of Big Data technologies (i.e. Redshift) to produce clear and actionable insights
• Synthesize complex data analyses and communicate clearly and effectively to stakeholders across the organization
• Craft compelling dashboards and visualizations to “tell the story” of the business
• Continually evaluate and refine your technical toolkit; teach what you learn to the team
• Collaborate daily with cross-functional colleagues to drive strategies and tactics for growth

What you will bring to LTK

• 2+ years experience as an analyst or in a quantitative role
• 0-1 years of experience in developing with LookML, Looker’s SQL Runner, Content Validator
• 0-1 years of experience with implementing and managing BI platforms (Looker) for business intelligence
• Ability to parse data that can drive actionable insights and decisions
• A self-starter with a curious nature and passion for data; you “think outside the box” and “around the corner” with fierce attention to detail
• Strong communication skills - you can present your findings in a clear and articulate way to groups of various stakeholders to drive decision making through interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A deep desire to prove yourself right or wrong and make smart decisions without ego
• Empathy and intellectual humility to build strong rapport and thought-partnerships with colleagues
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly changing environment and drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment; you display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals (wearing both hats simultaneously)
• Strong math and analytical skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets skills
• Strong SQL skills; experience with Python, R or a similar programming language is a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; your major can be anything - we love diverse educational backgrounds, but you have a strong quantitative foundation
• Demonstrable record of professional and academic achievements