Job Location: New York, NY
Job Introduction
- You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role.
At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.
Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.
Purpose of the role
BBC Studios now have an exciting vacancy for a senior data analyst within our award winning International News division. Working within our newly formed consumer growth and monetisation team you will use data from across our technology platforms, synthesizing and delivering compelling insights and visualizations that help the business understand our audience and their behaviours with a view to delivering against our strategic growth and monetisation targets.
Reporting to the Lead Data Analyst this is a full-time hybrid working position, based in New York and will support all parts of the digital news business.
Role Responsibility
- Translate raw data into analysis and recommended actions
- Create data pipelines from analytics tools such as Piano, Zephr and Permutive to allow automation of business reporting dashboards and generation of insight
- Develop and monitor metrics and KPIs to determine business performance against objectives.
- Build your knowledge and learning new skills by attending workshops, seminars and conferences or self-learning materials
Scope & Impact
- Develop a deep understanding of drivers of audience engagement and growth and work with key stakeholders to optimize this metric
- Create Integrations between audience measurement systems and ad eco system to facilitate better monetization of content and identify opportunities to improve yield
- Identify process improvements to our in-house experimentation and reporting processes.
Relationships
- Build relationships with stakeholders across our business (Product, Editorial, Commercial and Marketing) to ensure we are using data to inform our decisioning
- Provide clear and effective communications with stakeholders including creating engaging presentations and explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Empower stakeholders across the business to make data-informed decisions by building self-serve reporting eg in Tableau
Are you the right candidate?
As a global business, diversity, equity, and inclusion among team members is essential to our success. We therefore encourage highly skilled candidates from traditionally under-represented groups to submit their applications, even if they don’t check absolutely every box on our list of desired work experience.
Knowledge & Skills
- Good working knowledge of statistical techniques
- Exposure to audience analytics tools such as Piano, GA or Adobe strongly desirable
- Strong data visualization skills , using BI tool such as Tableau, Power Bi, Qlik or similar
- Knowledge of modern cloud data architectures, infrastructure, and tools for example AWS, GCP, Apache Airflow and collaboration tools such as Github, JIRA
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner to senior stakeholders
- Desire to understand, in detail, the consumer experience on BBC News digital products
Professional Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in a digital setting working in an data analysis role.
- Proficiency in SQL and or Python / R to analyze large datasets.
- Experience of delivering commercial outcomes from the creation and distribution of advanced analytics
Behaviors
- Good communication skills – a great candidate will be able to talk to other analysts, and non-specialists, and can communicate with people remotely across multiple BBC sites
- Autonomous and problem-solving oriented
- Detail focused whilst being able to maintain a view of the bigger picture
- Keen to challenge the status quo and take initiatives to drive positive changes
- Able to navigate complex and disparate systems and datasets
- Self-starter with a natural inclination for data management
- An enthusiasm for writing clean, well-documented, and testable code
About The BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
Perks
- Competitive Compensation Package
- 100% Employer-Paid Medical and Dental Insurance (PPO plans)
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Flexible, Hybrid Working Arrangements
- Work/life balance
- Free Retirement Consulting to All Employees
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Free Peloton App Membership
- Gym Reimbursement
- Bagel Mondays, Thirsty Thursdays, and more!
COVID Vaccination Disclosure: BBC Studios is committed to the safety and well-being of our employees, contractors, and guests. We follow federal, state, and local guidelines regarding vaccination and testing requirements across our office locations.
Our New York office requires all staff, contractors, and guests to be fully vaccinated and to submit proof of vaccination.
For other locations, a negative COVID-19 test may be submitted weekly if an individual is not fully vaccinated.
Please note that most roles require an in-office presence of two days a week as part of our hybrid/flexible working arrangement.
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