Business Operations Analyst III
Foster City, CA, United States – hybrid (remote + office)
About the role
We are seeking an AI-native Marketing Business Analyst to serve as a strategic partner to Marketing Executive Leadership. This role will transform complex demand, marketing, customer, and revenue data into actionable insights that drive investment decisions, optimize performance, and elevate executive decision-making. The ideal candidate combines deep analytical expertise, advanced SQL skills, modern AI workflows, and exceptional business acumen. They are comfortable moving between detailed data analysis and executive-level storytelling, helping leaders understand not just what happened, but why it happened and what actions to take next.
Responsibilities
- Analyze campaign, digital, event, ABM, product marketing, customer marketing, and demand generation performance.
- Write complex SQL queries to extract, transform, and analyze data across multiple systems.
- Build attribution, funnel, and conversion analyses that drive marketing investment decisions.
- Partner with marketing leaders to define success metrics and optimize program performance.
- Maintain reusable definitions in markdown-based documentation and other shared knowledge assets to support team enablement and skill-building.
- Conduct ad hoc analyses to answer critical business questions and support strategic initiatives.
- Partner with data engineering, RevOps, and business systems teams to ensure data quality and governance.
- Validate data accuracy and maintain trust in executive reporting.
- Design and maintain executive-level marketing performance frameworks, dashboards, and reporting.
- Develop KPIs and measurement methodologies that connect marketing activities to pipeline, revenue, customer growth, and business outcomes.
- Translate complex analyses into clear narratives and recommendations for executive audiences.
- Support quarterly business reviews, board reporting, annual planning, and strategic decision-making.
- Identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities through proactive analysis.
- Own the marketing semantic layer, including KPI definitions, business logic, data dictionaries, AI-ready documentation, and reusable measurement frameworks that ensure consistency across reporting, dashboards, AI agents, and executive communications.
- Leverage AI tools and modern analytics platforms to accelerate insight generation and improve productivity.
- Design AI-powered workflows for reporting, forecasting, anomaly detection, data enrichment, and executive brief creation.
- Champion AI-first approaches to analytics, reporting, and business intelligence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in marketing analytics, business analytics, revenue operations, or related analytical roles.
- Expert-level SQL skills with the ability to work across large, complex datasets.
- Experience building executive-facing dashboards, scorecards, and measurement frameworks.
- Strong understanding of B2B marketing metrics, funnel analytics, pipeline generation, attribution, and revenue measurement.
- Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making through data-driven storytelling.
- Experience using AI tools and technologies to improve analytical workflows and business outcomes.
- Advanced proficiency in BI platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Sigma, or similar.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to executive leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in SaaS, subscription, or recurring revenue business models.
- Familiarity with marketing automation, CRM, and customer data platforms.
- Experience with forecasting, predictive analytics, and statistical modeling.
- Knowledge of Python, dbt, or modern data stack technologies.
- Experience supporting CMO, CRO, or executive leadership teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, variable bonus, and performance reward opportunities, and retirement programs.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous, flexible time off, paid holidays, “wellness” days, and company-wide end-of-year break.
- 6 months fully paid parental leave.
- Learning & Development stipend.
- Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation match.
- Free resources and support for mental wellbeing.
Specific benefits offerings may vary by country.
Pay
Annualized base pay range: $106,400 – $159,600 USD. Additional elements may include bonus/variable compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.