Senior Data Analyst

Known•New York, NY

3d•$90,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Known is seeking Senior Data Analysts for its Skeptic and Data Consulting practices. This highly technical role involves advanced analytics, machine learning, and statistics, and is hybrid in New York City. Data Consulting addresses challenging marketing and business problems for clients across media, technology, entertainment, consumer products, and other industries. Skeptic builds tools that support Known’s media buying practice and improve client media campaigns, with work spanning predictive modeling and optimization to infrastructure development. Senior Data Analysts work closely with PhD-level data scientists, engineers, and other analysts. They develop skills and contribute to exploratory analyses, rapid reporting, machine-learning results, data-quality strategies, and production code. The role offers increasing responsibility and opportunities to grow into expert data scientist, engineer, or team-leader roles.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited college or university; STEM degrees are preferred.
At least two years of experience in analytics, advertising, ad tech, or media.
Regular experience using Python or a similar language and SQL.
Based in the New York City area for this hybrid role.
Willingness to rapidly learn foundational knowledge and skills.
Intellectual curiosity and integrity.
Desire to work flexibly on challenging problems, including on-the-fly analytics, statistics, big data, machine learning, and mathematical algorithms.
Strong communication and presentation skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to translate business challenges into quantitative problems and choose an appropriate method, which may not be machine learning.
Understanding of what LLMs and generative AI can and cannot do, including ethical considerations.
Ability to own projects and take them to completion.
Commitment to high standards of quality and accuracy.

Nice To Haves

Experience in advertising or advertising technology.
Experience working on a tech team, including cloud technologies and version control.
Experience multitasking in a fast-paced environment.
Experience working directly with clients.
Experience with predictive analytics or machine learning.

Responsibilities

Build, develop, deploy, and maintain tools for marketing applications, including Known’s existing suite, and help teams adopt them.
Improve analytics code, dashboards, and reporting.
Create and validate analyses in SQL, Python, and proprietary tools as part of MOAs.
Automate recurring marketing analyses for media-buying teams.
Improve data and code quality and troubleshoot data issues.
Plan projects and participate in research meetings with teammates.
Present results to colleagues and clients, and respond to their questions promptly and thoughtfully.
Contribute to deliverables such as documents, code, and slides, and contribute to Known’s strategy.