Lead Business Intelligence Engineer

Snap Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Medical coverage

Mental health support

Equity compensation

Job summary

Snap Inc. in the United States is seeking a Lead, Business Intelligence Engineer to unlock revenue and drive category growth by delivering data-driven insights.

You will collaborate with Sales, analyze campaigns, build dashboards, and partner with cross-functional teams to develop measurement strategies. A BS in CS/economics/math and 6+ years of quantitative experience are preferred. Strong SQL and Python/R skills are required.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for analysis and data visualization.
• Ability to collate data from multiple sources into a coherent story.
• Strong data-driven mindset with attention to detail and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand business challenges and translate them into data-driven decisions.
• Analyze campaigns and identify performance trends to optimize revenue.
• Build dashboards and reports to monitor advertiser performance and product development.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define measurement agendas.
• Distill complex analytics for broad audiences and influence decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python/R

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/economics/mathematics or equivalent

Job description

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji , Saturn, and other digital services.

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio , an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services.

We’re looking for a Lead, Business Intelligence Engineer to join Team Snapchat! Working closely with the Sales team, you will be tasked with helping us unlock revenue and drive category growth by uncovering actionable insights - identifying aggregate vertical trends in addition to doing in-depth client analysis.

What you’ll do:

• Understanding challenges the business faces and helping them to make decisions based on data driven insights by collating and analyzing information from multiple sources and a logical and coherent story.
• Understand the business challenges and needs to help leadership make data driven decisions by analyzing and combining data across multiple sources.
• Identify performance trends across auction campaigns to fuel optimization recommendations; evangelize best practices across the account management group
• Use data and logic to impact client and business success by providing analysis, insights,reports and actionable recommendations
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build out measurement agendas/strategies, provide data based insights for products in alpha or beta, and deliver feedback on data tools in development.
• Distill complicated analytical concepts for broader audiences and be able to influence their decision making through a data story
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports to help the business understand and optimize advertiser performance and product development through a client-centric lens.
• Proactively identify projects that impact revenue, defines scope and objectives, and proposes a course of action required to attain objectives
• Work closely with Revenue programs team to support various treatments by providing actionable data insights
• Partner with Revenue strategy on understanding growth levers to drive revenue growth
• Function as a thought leader, offering insights related to vertical or category industry trends in order to inform or strengthen Snap’s in-market pitch.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/economics/mathematics or equivalent preferred

6+ years experience in quantitative analysis and research

Proficiency in sql and python/R for analysis and data visualization

Preferred qualifications:

• Data driven and analytical mindset
• Strong attention to detail and organizational
• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic environment
• Ability to work individually while operating as a collaborative team player
• Are able to grasp business problems and design technical data-based solutions that are implementable,efficient and scalable
• Experience in performing analysis on big data sets and coming up with actionable insights
• Comfortable in interpreting complex data signals and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at [e-mail].

Our Benefits

Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC)

The base salary range for this position is $190,000-$284,000 annually.

Zone B

The base salary range for this position is $181,000-$270,000 annually.

Zone C

The base salary range for this position is $162,000-$241,000 annually.This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

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