Director, Commerce Analytics, NBCU News Group

About the role

The Commerce Team within the NBC New Group uses data to make critical business decisions, find new readers to connect with, determine new categories to test or existing content to expand on, and communicate with leadership on pacing, top stories, top products, etc. We are looking for an analytics practitioner to help strategically grow the e-commerce business through data-based insights and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Editorial teams to understand content performance and deliver recommendations to expand and engage with key audiences
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to identify requisite data sources to enhance database, financial, and marketing operations
• Work within large datasets or data lake to pull data for advanced analysis across multiple datasets and inputs
• Maintain, update, and distribute actionable dashboards or reports to ensure data governance and democratization
• Leverage data visualization tools to curate reporting for cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, digital media analytics, e-commerce, affiliate commerce, consulting, finance, or a related analytical field
• 2+ years of people management or team leadership experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative area of study (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or Computer Science)
• Proficient in SQL and Excel
• Experience with R or Python a plus
• Experience with A/B and multivariate tools, as well as statistical models
• Experience with web, mobile, search and/or social analytics tools (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, etc.)
• Knowledge of Tableau, Looker, Domo, Power BI or equivalent data visualization tools
• Experience working in Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery or equivalent system a plus
• Experience working within an e-commerce publisher or affiliate business a plus
• Experience working with large, disparate datasets
• Strong attention to detail, work ethic, sense of curiosity, accountability, and ability to execute projects of all sizes with vision & purpose
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, collaborate and influence
• Self-driven, confident, resourceful, and resilient