at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.
A Little About Us
The Yahoo Analytics, Research & Data Organization (YARD) is the strategic and tactical partner to all Yahoo decision-makers through pre-, mid- and post- decision stages. Within YARD is the Consumer Analytics team, which is the core audience analytics function helping Yahoo's GM organizations explore and understand the impact of user behavior on business performance. Made up of data science, business intelligence, marketing, content and product analytics experts, this team leverages 1st and 3rd party data to provide deep analysis and actionable insights that inform consumer-first strategies and product/business decisions.
A Lot About You
Yahoo is looking for a versatile data enthusiast with excellent business sense, outstanding analytical skills, a proven ability to communicate analytical findings, and rich experience in leveraging various data sets. We are responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for key measurements and insights about the users of Yahoo.
This individual contributor role will report to the Director of Business Intelligence (Yahoo Finance Analytics) and will work with teams across the organization including Product, Engineering, Editorial/Content, Business Development, Strategy & Ops and FP&A. This person will be working directly with stakeholders and cross functional teams to deliver reports and actionable insights, while driving data-led decisions that inform strategy.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Analyze performance (web, mobile) across Yahoo Finance to understand user trends, behavior and competitive landscape
- Act as the Business Intelligence lead for multiple product squads focusing on different features components of the Yahoo Finance product, working in a fast paced environment
- Support the Yahoo Finance Analytics team with weekly, monthly & quarterly performance reports
- Present and communicate performance results and findings to various stakeholders at all levels
- Support ad hoc requests coming from leadership and other key stakeholders within the company
- Monitor data quality issues, partnering with other teams to surface gaps and inconsistencies
- Leverage third-party data sources such as Comscore, Similarweb, data.ai, and Shareablee for competitive and market analysis
Basic Requirements (Must Have):
- Bachelor's degree and experience in digital analytics and insights delivery
- 3+ years of experience generating actionable insights that aid data-driven decisions in building great products with great user experience.
- Expert knowledge of SQL is required
- Experience using analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics
- Proficient in data visualization tools such as Google Studio, Tableau, Domo, Looker or similar tools is a must
- Experience conducting analyses across product teams and on specific product features preferred
- Strong analytical skills and...
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