Business Analyst

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Advertising creates powerful, customer-focused solutions for advertisers of all sizes. Our Ad Tech team builds the business programs and ad serving systems to enable campaigns to run across billions of advertising queries every day. The result is better performance for advertisers and publishers, and more relevant ads for customers. Our data platform processes massive data sets to develop business intelligence and analytics that are critical for the efficiency and profitability of our advertising business.

Amazon Publisher Services (APS), a core part of Amazon's Advertising business, helps publishers of all sizes increase monetization and yield. Through its marketplaces (Transparent Ad Marketplace and Unified Ad Marketplace), APS provides publishers with convenient access to both Amazon demand as well as diverse, high-quality third-party demand.

The 3P Buyer team is seeking an experienced Business Analyst who will dive deep into complex data sets to identify actionable insights that drive great business decisions. The analyses you create will help drive buyer customer adoption, ad performance, and retention. To be successful in this role, you will need to define and produce metrics/dashboards for business teams, execute data extraction and transformation directly on big data systems, and develop hard-hitting analyses to solve complex business challenges. You are an analysis expert and a data evangelist who leverages a variety of platforms and analytical tools to extract critical insights from massive data sets.

Responsibilities:
· Analyze data to find actionable insights that lead to great business decisions and new opportunities
· Collaborate with key stakeholders to translate business questions into verifiable hypotheses using complex, multi-source data
· Build dashboards and custom reports to track key metrics, empower other team members with data, and investigate business questions
· Execute deep-dive analyses addressing key business issues and present findings to stakeholders
· Demonstrate great judgment in quickly forming actionable, data-driven conclusions in the face of uncertainty
· Proactively make recommendations for new tests and initiatives to improve key metrics and customer outcomes
· Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format
· Play an active role in strategic & operational planning discussions

Joining this team, you'll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Business, or related discipline
· 3+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst, data analyst, or statistical analysis role
· 2+ years of experience analyzing large datasets to solve business problems and presenting results
· 1+ years of experience working directly in the advertising or ad tech space
· Advanced knowledge of Excel & SQL
· Proven analytical and quantitative skills with an ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases, and complete root cause analyses
· Knowledge of fundamental statistical concepts for data analysis
· Ability to dive deeply into data integrity issues