Data Analyst, Level 3

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

The Data Science & Insights team seeks to leverage our massive data sets into actionable insights that deliver business value. As truth seekers and truth tellers, we relay what the data says without bias, even when inconvenient or difficult. We aim to improve decision-making quality and speed across the organization to enable a deeper understanding of our customers and products. We focus on efficient and effective analytic execution, positioning ourselves as the go-to experts with deep knowledge and expertise, constantly striving for better, faster insights from data.

We’re looking for a Data Analyst to join Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• Understand the business challenges and needs to help leadership make data driven decisions by analyzing and combining data across multiple sources: Distill complicated analytical concepts for broader audiences and be able to influence their decision making through a data story.

• Use data and logic to impact client and business success by providing analysis, insights, reports and actionable recommendations: Build and maintain dashboards and reports to help the business understand and optimize advertiser performance and product development through a client-centric lens.

• Function as a thought leader, offering insights related to vertical or category industry trends in order to inform or strengthen Snap’s in-market pitch. Proactively identify projects that impact revenue, defines scope and objectives, and proposes a course of action required to attain objectives. 

• Identify performance trends across auction campaigns to fuel optimization recommendations; evangelize best practices across the account management group.

• Design, build and maintain data structures to facilitate reporting and monitoring key performance indicators; Monitor and investigate changes in key performance indicators for products.

• Develop and maintain ETL routines using ETL and orchestration tools such as Airflow; Perform SQL and ETL tuning as necessary: perform and report results from straightforward AB experimentations.

• Collaborate with Sales, Creative Strategy, Marketing Science, and Product Solutions to ensure our campaigns are running optimally and constantly adapting to new findings

• Build solutions using high technical standards, and consistently follow best practices. This may include writing high quality SQL, building basic dashboards using visualization tools such as Looker and Tableau. 

Knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Strong communication skills – Written and verbal presentation

• Data driven and analytical mindset

• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic environment

• Ability to work individually while operating as a collaborative team player

• Ability to use tech to improve work-flows and create efficiencies

• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in analytics, data science, information systems, computer science, business, marketing, communications, economics, or a related area of study or equivalent years of experience

• 3+ years of post-Bachelor’s experience in a relevant analytical field ; OR a Master’s degree in a technical field + 2+ years of post-graduate professional experience in a relevant analytical field

• 2+ years work experience using SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data modeling principles including dimensional modeling, data normalization principles etc.

• Expertise in data exploration / data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, Chartio, etc.

• Excellent conceptual and analytical reasoning competencies.

• Experience with additional programming languages (e.g. Python/R)

• 2+ years of experience with workflow management tools (Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban, UC4).

• Experience with defining, implementing and analyzing A/B and multivariate experiments.

• Experience in a sales-facing environment - supporting Sales on client / vertical / or business-level requests with insights.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

Zone B:

Zone C:

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.