People Analyst
Taboola is widely recognized as the world’s leading content discovery and distribution platform that now serves over 360 billion editorial and video recommendations to over 1 billion unique visitors every month. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola's platform to retain users on their sites, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to drive high-quality audiences. Taboola's technology analyzes real-time user data (such as geography, device type, referral source, collaborative filtering, and social media trends) to predict the top handful of items a user may want to consume next. Taboola's partners include a wide network of top tier publisher sites, including: MSN, NBC Universal, USA TODAY, Business Insider, Bloomberg and The Weather Channel.
With Taboola’s business growth has come considerable people growth. For the last 3 years we’ve doubled our headcount every 18 months. Over 10,000 people apply for a job with us every quarter. This means our organizational make-up is changing rapidly (of employees with more than a year of tenure, 1 in 5 have changed roles in the last year), and the HR function is necessarily responding to that change with our own innovations. People Analytics is playing a leading role in transforming HR from the key element it had been in Taboola’s past success, into a data-driven insights center for our on-going future success.
We are searching for an analyst to join our expanding People Analytics capability. The analyst will use his/her expertise in data analysis and creative problem solving to work on a mix of planned and ad hoc analytical projects with exposure across the global organization, all functions and all senior leadership. Potential project areas include: workforce planning, performance management, HRIS implementation, recruiting analytics, total rewards, employee engagement, and more. Getting insights into the hands of front-line managers is a priority for 2018, so the analyst will work on reporting and self-service dashboard development with tools such as QlikView.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze data and generate useful conclusions and actionable recommendations – for HR, management and business users
- Create, support and maintain data models, projections, reports and dashboards as well as find creative solutions for a variety of challenges facing our growing data requirements
- Build and maintain annual budgets and recruiting plans, and collaborate with functional leaders to help drive the quarterly forecasting process
- Analyze the employee experience from on-boarding, learning & development, promotion, and retention, identify actionable insights, and work with HR colleagues to execute those actions
- Own and manage multiple reporting, analysis, and process improvement projects both on an ongoing and an ad hoc basis
Requirements:
- Training in statistics, mathematics, psychology, computer science, engineering, operations research, or related field, graduate-level or equivalent
- Minimum of 4 years of professional working experience demonstrating excellent quantitative skills, ability to communicate professionally, and manage projects of increasing complexity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to communicate clearly, comfortably, and professionally with all internal clients including senior leaders. Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint
- Intermediate to advanced Excel (e.g., advanced pivot tables, vlookups, nested and array formulas, VBA)
- Proficiency in SQL and BI solutions; familiarity with Qlik, Tableau, or Alteryx is a plus
- Statistical analysis skills; in R is a plus
- Strong independent, as well as collaborative, problem solving and research skills
- Ability to multi-task across a range of work streams/projects with constantly shifting priorities
- Ability to handle confidential material discreetly
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