Zillow Group's Strategic Analytics & Data Science team needs to provide a metrics-driven lens on strategy and uncover insights to move it forward. This role will own and build key dashboards, metrics, and visual frameworks, including company source of truth metrics for business reviews, and evolve the company strategy reporting website.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in data visualization, business intelligence, or analytics engineering, or closely related roles
- Expert SQL skills (query creation, editing, optimizing) for data transformation in a large-scale data environment
- Python proficiency for data transformation and visualization (i.e. pandas, pyspark, plotly)
- Experience using front-end scripting languages OR AI-supported front-end tooling to deliver automation and reporting portal websites.
- Familiarity with ETL/orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow) and version control best practices
- Hands-on experience with big-data environments (Databricks, Spark, Redshift/Snowflake)
- Deep knowledge of BI tools (Tableau, Looker) and data visualization libraries (plotly, node.js)
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the company reporting strategy internal site (currently Google App Script-based) using scripting or AI tools to design and implement solutions.
- Build, maintain, and optimize multiple high-visibility dashboards and data visualizations that inform executive and cross-functional decision-making.
- Build and maintain data pipelines following best practices for Databricks (e.g. dbt, version control), enforcing quality and consistency in metrics and dashboards.
- Analyze company-wide datasets to answer business questions, identify trends, and surface actionable insights to stakeholders.
- Tell stories with data - communicate complex analyses and insights to cross-functional stakeholders, including Zillow’s most senior leaders.
- Translate complex data questions into clear visual stories that drive strategic decisions.
- Create scale-able self-service analytical frameworks to be used by product, operations, marketing, and executive partners in analyzing both the current state of the business and a suite of forward-looking options.
Other
- You are a data generalist who is able to solve business problems using data, from building dashboards to leading analytical workstreams.
- Demonstrated ability to own and troubleshoot high visibility dashboards at scale
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills - able to translate complex data insights into clear, actionable business narratives for technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong business analytics skills - A data analysis expert comfortable with large datasets and advanced analytical techniques and able to own analytics projects end to end with proven success
- A creative problem-solver who tackles ambiguous business challenges with a data-driven approach
