Mediavine is seeking a Data Analyst to join our Engineering team. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving interesting problems and wants to work with a small team of talented engineers on a product used by thousands of publishers. Applicants must be based in the United States.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 8,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is ensuring your brand and business grow in every respect.

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

Diversity and inclusion aren’t platitudes to us; we take them seriously.

Position Title & Overview

The Data & Analytics team consists of data analysts, data engineers and analytics engineers working to build the most effective platform and tools to help uncover opportunities and make decisions with data here at Mediavine. We partner with Product, Support, Ad Operations and other teams within the Engineering department to understand behavior, develop accurate predictors and build solutions that provide the best internal and external experience possible.

The Data Analyst role will be assisting the analysts in their support of the business and helping to guide the direction through data based decisions. They will provide support in developing analytical processes and make use of data in meaningful ways that produce positive results.

Our current analytics toolkit consists of Tableau, Metabase and dbt running on top of a Snowflake data warehouse. We are exploring new BI tools and expect this position to add value in the implementation of this tool.

Essential Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with the product, support, engineering and ad ops to develop analytic monitoring and measurement tools that meet immediate needs
• Develop self service tools that allow internal users to answer the next question beyond the initial ask
• Assist on assigned projects through all phase
• Increase the company’s analytical ability and comfort level through approachable analyses for non-analytical stakeholders and audience specific guidance
• Create visualizations to monitor business performance and uncover interesting trends for investigation
• Communicating requirements to the data engineering members of the team to make sure the platform can support the business needs
• Lead anomaly investigation helping other teams identify root cause and present findings
• Define and create exception based alerting that is meaningful for specific audiences along with investigation and remediation steps
• Comfortably test and critique the process we use for exploratory data analysis and A/B testing. This includes helping stakeholders decide on testing strategy, generating baselines, approximating sample sizes and performing analysis of test results
• Work with data engineers and analytics engineers to standardize transformation logic in the dbt layer for consistency and ease of exploration by end users
• Adhere to data analysis code best practices and analysis standards