Business Analyst, Partnerships
About The Position
Apartment List is revolutionizing the rental experience. We’re not just helping people find apartments—we’re creating meaningful matches between renters and homes they’ll actually love. With our Smart Platform, powered by AI and a pay-per-lease model, we align our success directly with results for our partners. It’s a smarter, more personalized way to rent—and we’re just getting started. We're looking for a sharp and systems-minded Business Analyst to support the growth and scalability of our partnership ecosystem. Sitting on the Strategy & Partnerships team, you’ll blend analytical rigor with creative thinking to build tools, frameworks, and insights that guide strategic decision-making. Your work will help us move faster, operate smarter, and build the data foundation that supports everything from pilot design to executive reporting.
Requirements
- You have 1–2 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a fast-paced analytical role
- You’re fluent in SQL and comfortable navigating large, messy, real-world datasets
- You’ve built scalable and reusable solutions and know when something is built to last
- You have strong written communication and documentation skills, and can structure insights for clarity and impact
- You’re curious and comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing problem spaces
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks or new metrics from scratch
- Exposure to experiment design, pilot programs, or early-stage product/partnership concepts
- Familiarity with marketplace, partnerships, or growth analytics
Responsibilities
- Build scalable analytics infrastructure in BigQuery to support partner- and portfolio-level reporting, evaluate performance, and explore new hypotheses
- Identify data quality issues and workflow inefficiencies, and propose solutions and automations that improve reliability and clarity
- Move beyond “what happened” to uncover why performance looks the way it does—and what to do about it
- Document insights, decisions, and experiments so knowledge compounds across cycles
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders to anticipate data needs, define KPIs, and prepare for upcoming launches
- Conduct competitive landscape and market research to contextualize our partnerships in the broader ecosystem and uncover new opportunities for the team
- Support transforming strategic decisions into operational partnerships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
