Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through various brands. They are seeking a Lead Data Analyst to own the reporting infrastructure that powers decision-making across multiple verticals, ensuring that insights are actionable and impactful.
Responsibilities
- Extracts accurate insights from raw, unstructured data without relying on clean models
- Builds, standardizes, drives adoption, and leaves teams more data-literate
- Connects data directly to levers that move the business, i.e. campaign performance, conversion rates, or revenue per session
- Architects complex models with full understanding of downstream impacts
- Asks questions first; driven to grow business knowledge to become a trusted analytical partner, not just a builder
- Actively engaged with stakeholders to audit what reporting the team is consuming and why, i.e. identifying discrepancies, redundancies, and inconsistencies across existing dashboards and beginning to develop a roadmap to standardize reporting across your verticals
- Bridging business context and data understanding by being able to articulate how assigned verticals make money and what the key performance levers are. Actively improving dashboard standardization while executing on ad hoc requests with accuracy and business context
- Dashboard standardization is in execution and a clear roadmap exists for how trusted data sources will be developed to improve the efficiency of data consumption. LookML structure is understood well enough to begin making changes with full awareness of downstream impacts. Working relationships with Yield, Paid Media, and Account Management are established
- Trust is built with the business team through education, best practices, and a standardized reporting suite that enables confident self-service analytics. Proactive retrospective analyses are being delivered across experiments, creatives, offers, seasonality, and CAC performance. Strong understanding of the full funnel metrics that support each team
- Trusted technical owner for assigned verticals end-to-end, from raw data ingestion through final dashboard. Reporting standardization is complete, retrospective analysis is a consistent output, and the business team views you as a go-to analytical partner who recommends action, not just reports findings
Skills
- Expert SQL & Comfortable with Unstructured Complex Data: Extracts accurate insights from raw, unstructured data without relying on clean models
- Reporting Ownership & Data Literacy: Builds, standardizes, drives adoption, and leaves teams more data-literate
- Performance Marketing Optimization: Connects data directly to levers that move the business, i.e. campaign performance, conversion rates, or revenue per session
- Advanced LookML Development (or equivalent in Power BI / Tableau): Architects complex models with full understanding of downstream impacts
- Curiosity & Business Depth: Asks questions first; driven to grow business knowledge to become a trusted analytical partner, not just a builder
- Minimum 7 years in business intelligence or analytics with direct exposure to performance or affiliate marketing
- Experience owning reporting end-to-end, from pipeline to dashboard
- Experience working with messy, complex, third-party data
- Experience partnering closely with business teams to uncover meaningful trends, conduct retrospective analyses, and connect data work to decisions that actually moved the business
Benefits
- Profit-sharing bonus
- Competitive benefits
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