Yahoo needs a Senior Data Analyst to partner with the Home and News verticals to drive business strategy and influence leadership decisions through data-driven insights.
Requirements
- Strong SQL experience, with the ability to write complex queries and optimize performance across large datasets.
- Skills in Python for automation and advanced analytics.
- Strong experience creating business intelligence reports and dashboards using tools such as Looker or Tableau.
- Expert in data storytelling, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear, persuasive narratives.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and segment audiences to uncover behavioral patterns and identify opportunities that inform product and content strategies.
- Evaluate retention drivers and cross-property engagement to understand how users interact across Yahoo’s ecosystem, highlighting opportunities to increase loyalty and lifetime value.
- Monitor and interpret revenue trends to assess business performance, identify growth levers, and flag potential risks early.
- Design, build, and maintain executive-ready dashboards that distill complex data into intuitive, actionable views for senior leadership.
- Develop automated reporting systems and alerts (via Slack or email) to surface significant shifts in key performance metrics in real time.
- Translate insights into clear strategic recommendations, ensuring leadership can act quickly and confidently on emerging opportunities or challenges.
- Collaborate closely with executives and cross-functional partners to define critical business questions, frame analyses, and guide data-driven decision making.
Other
- 5+ years of experience as a business analyst, data analyst, or in a similar role.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and a bias toward action.
- Excellent communication skills, confident presenting insights to senior leadership.
- A bachelor's degree is a plus, but not required.
- flexible hybrid work options
