Analyst/ Senior Analyst

Morning Walk; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

PTO and holidays

MW Fuel program

Job summary

Morning Walk is seeking a technically grounded, AI-native analyst to join our Performance Marketing Data & Analytics team in Chicago or Milwaukee. This is a hybrid role with in-office Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; Tuesdays and Fridays offer optional remote work.

You’ll own measurement for brands and build scalable analytics, turning data into client-focused insights from day one. Ideal candidates have 2+ years (Analyst) or 4+ years (Senior Analyst) in marketing analytics, strong GA4/GA4

Qualifications

• 2+ years (Analyst) or 4+ years (Senior Analyst) in marketing analytics or similar data role.
• GA4 proficiency including implementation, configuration, troubleshooting, and reporting.
• Google Tag Manager proficiency across data layer, tags, triggers, and governance.
• SQL strong enough to work independently on cloud warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Own Rockerbox end-to-end: configuration, mapping, deduplication, QA, reporting, and interpretation.
• Own GA4 across client portfolio: property/data stream architecture, event configuration, audiences, reporting.
• Own Google Tag Manager: data layer, tag/trigger builds, versioning, governance, validation.
• Write clean SQL against BigQuery/Snowflake to answer questions about customer behavior and campaign performance.

Skills

GA4 proficiency

Google Tag Manager

SQL

AI fluency

Data interpretation

Communication

Tools

Rockerbox / DV tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

***This is a hybrid role in either Chicago or Milwaukee***

About Morning Walk

Morning Walk is a Performance Branding Company that seeks to create healthy brands through a balance of purpose, experience, and performance to drive growth. We've built a team of insatiably curious thinkers and makers, relentlessly dedicated to craft, unapologetically optimistic, and always moving forward. Our core disciplines include strategic consulting, creative design, content development, experience design, performance marketing, Integrated Comms, CRM and Analytics. Our "Walkers" or employees are the best in the business.

We are fortunate to have a portfolio of passionate, purpose-led clients, and are privileged to work on their exciting, dynamic brands across many industries and sectors – from Kalahari Resorts & Conventions to innovative doors from Masonite, from car batteries (Clarios/OPTIMA) to snowplows (Toro/BOSS). We are powered by data and ideas and fueled by the energy of our people and clients. Our relentless and persistent optimism means we put our best foot forward, build on our solid foundation, and start each day new with the goal of creating an environment of growth and discovery – both personally and professionally. Motion is contagious, and we're going places. Won't you join us?

What We're Seeking

Morning Walk is seeking a technically grounded, AI-native analyst to join our Performance Marketing Data & Analytics team in Chicago or Milwaukee. This is a hybrid role with an incredible team. We work in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and Tuesdays and Fridays you have the option to work from home. This role comes with real ownership from the start. You'll be the person our account, media, creative, and CRM teams come to when a measurement question needs an answer, and you'll have room to build the systems that produce those answers rather than inheriting someone else's. Curiosity and initiative count for more here than years on a resume.

You'll own measurement and analytics for brands including Kalahari Resorts & Conventions and OPTIMA Batteries, and you'll help us win new business by turning data into a point of view clients haven't heard before. We want someone with strong technical foundations who can interpret and explain technical concepts. We're looking for someone genuinely fluent with AI tools: someone who uses AI to plan, build, debug, and learn faster, and who can tell when the output is wrong.

Open to Analyst and Senior Analyst candidates. Level and compensation are determined by experience.

What You'll Be Doing

The Foundational Work You'll Own

• Attribution: Own Rockerbox end to end — configuration, channel and campaign mapping, conversion deduplication, QA, and recurring reporting. Own the interpretation too: where the model disagrees with platform-reported numbers, and why. You can explain to a client why Meta claims credit for a conversion the model assigns elsewhere, and you're confident enough to say when multi-touch attribution can't answer the question at all.
• Web Analytics: Own GA4 across our client portfolio — property and data stream architecture, event schemas, key event configuration, custom dimensions, audiences, and reporting. You know what it's good at and what it should never be asked to do, and you say so plainly rather than producing a number you don't believe.
• Tag Management: Own Google Tag Manager — data layer design, tag and trigger builds, versioning, governance, and validation before anything ships. You treat consent as part of the measurement architecture, not a legal afterthought.
• Data & Warehouse: Write clean, well-structured SQL against BigQuery and Snowflake to answer questions about customer behavior, segments, retention, and campaign performance. You document your queries so the next person can follow the logic.

Working With AI

• Use tools like Claude to scope analyses, draft and refactor SQL, debug tagging problems, and get up to speed on unfamiliar platforms faster.
• Read AI output critically — you can tell when a query is subtly wrong, when a recommendation doesn't fit the client's data model, and when a confident answer is still a wrong one. You verify before you ship.
• Use AI to learn, not to skip learning. When you lean on it to get through something new, you come out the other side understanding it.
• Identify where automation pays off and build it — recurring client reports, scheduled warehouse summaries, retiring manual pulls that eat a day every month.
• Turn what you learn into documentation, templates, and repeatable processes so the team gets smarter together.

Across Clients and New Business

• Partner with strategy, media, creative, CRM, and account leads to define what success looks like before a campaign launches, not after.
• Build reporting people actually read: clear, honest, and pointed at a decision.
• Present findings directly to clients and partners — this is a client-facing role.
• Support new business with measurement approaches, audits, and analysis that help us win.
• Build and maintain testing frameworks; help clients understand what a result does and doesn't prove.
• Stay current on measurement, privacy, and platform changes — GA4, GTM, attribution methods, and data privacy compliance (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA).
• Document processes, playbooks, and learnings so the team keeps getting smarter.

Experience / Qualifications / Skills

• 2+ years (Analyst) or 4+ years (Senior Analyst) in marketing analytics, digital analytics, or a similar data role, ideally in an agency or multi-client environment.
• Google Analytics 4 proficiency covering implementation, configuration, troubleshooting, and reporting, including a clear understanding of the event-based data model.
• Google Tag Manager proficiency across data layer, tags, triggers, variables, QA, and governance.
• SQL strong enough to work independently, including joins, aggregations, window functions, and CTEs, against a cloud warehouse such as BigQuery or Snowflake.
• Marketing attribution literacy — you understand multi-touch attribution, its assumptions, and where it breaks, and you can explain the gap between platform-reported and modeled results to a non-technical audience.
• Demonstrated AI fluency in day-to‑day analytical work, with the judgment to evaluate and correct what these tools produce.
• Strong analytical reasoning and the instinct to sanity‑check a number before it reaches a client.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to move a project forward without being managed through it.

Preferred Experience

• Hands‑on experience with Rockerbox (now part of DoubleVerify) or a comparable attribution platform such as Northbeam or Measured, or with an in‑house model
• Server‑side tagging experience, including server‑side GTM or conversion APIs, and Consent Mode configuration.
• Google Cloud Platform familiarity beyond querying, such as scheduled queries, data transfers, and cost awareness.
• Experience with Looker Studio, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Exposure to incrementality testing or media mix modeling.
• Travel, hospitality, retail, e-commerce, or automotive aftermarket category experience.

Leveling

Level and offer are determined by demonstrated experience, including a short, practical exercise in the interview process. We'd rather title you accurately and grow you than hand you a title you have to grow into.

Compensation, Benefits, and Perks of a "Walker"

At Morning Walk, we offer competitive salaries and a generous, company-sponsored benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability, plus wellness perks to keep you feeling your best.

• 401(k)
• PTO and various paid holidays
• Ongoing learning and development through our MW Fuel program

Morning Walk is a place where good work and good people go together. If that sounds like your kind of walk, we'd love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.