Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Director - Business Analysis - Rubicon Project - Playa Vista
Job description
The Director, Business Analysis would be responsible for analyzing day-to-day performance of our marketplace for both Buyers and Sellers, including analysis of buyer and seller trends, algorithm analysis, marketplace data analysis, inventory quality, viewability and other one-off analyses as needed. Helps develop and manage company policy in these areas to create global consistency and monitors to ensure compliance globally. Work with business owners to develop analytical models to support new product lines.
Responsibilities:
Analyze marketplace data to help us better understand what moves the market.
Act as shared resource for Buyer Cloud and Seller Cloud teams as new products and relationships are being developed to ensure Marketplace Operational aspects are taken into account.
Develop understanding of our marketplace data and algorithms and how we can adjust algorithms to maximize company revenues.
Manage inventory quality operations, including pre-screening of new accounts, domain-level review of all new sites going live on the platform, and back-end monitoring of data to identify abnormal traffic trends and work with accounts teams to take action when found.
Contribute to development of new inventory quality solutions, including both third party and first party solutions, to continue to maintain high inventory quality across display, mobile and video globally.
Understand market utilization of viewability data and impact on business. Evaluate internal viewability data and work with account management teams to understand how to best operationalize data and optimize Seller accounts in regards to that data.
Creatively problem-solve to develop solutions to help scale and grow business globally.
Become intimately familiar with company and marketplace mentors and help other parts of the company to utilize those metrics effectively.
Desired Skills and Experience
BA/BS required, MBA optional
Background in mathematical and statistical analysis
Creative problem-solver who can turn data into analyses into action
Strong Excel and data analysis skills, including visualization
Basic financial modeling skills a plus
Knowledge of Internet measurement fundamentals
Experience in the online advertising industry preferred but not required
Strong communication skills
Ability to work with and coordinate remote team members
Must be highly organized, analytical, process-oriented
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