Platform Optimization Strategist - Data-Driven Ops

Progress Residential, L.P.; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Generous PTO & holidays

Learning & development

Culture

Job summary

Progress Residential is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Platform Operations team in Tempe, AZ. You will design, measure, and optimize data-informed service and property-turn workflows for a single-family rental operator.

You will turn ambiguous business needs into reliable analytical solutions, partner with business and technical teams, and present findings with clear data storytelling. The role emphasizes independence, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to apply AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytical experience.
• Strong SQL skills and experience solving complex data and business problems.
• Experience gathering requirements, defining metrics, validating data, and developing reliable analytical outputs.
• Ability to understand broader business context, challenge assumptions, and distinguish symptoms from root causes.
• Experience analyzing workflows and coordinating effectively with both business and technical partners.
• Strong written, presentation, and data-storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working independently, managing ambiguity, and driving cross-functional efforts from discovery through recommendation.
• Experience with Python; Palantir Foundry; Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or a similar visualization tool; customized GPTs or other business-focused AI solutions experience preferred.
• Experience with data architecture concepts spanning databases, transformation layers, semantic models, and applications; and real estate, property management, or property turn workflows is a plus

Responsibilities

• Use analytical tools to investigate operational questions, identify trends, diagnose performance issues, and support decisions.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, metric definitions, analytical logic, and visualizations.
• Examine workflows end to end—including process steps, handoffs, systems, data, and integrations—to identify root causes, failures, and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with business and technical teams to design practical, scalable solutions and measure their impact on cost, efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Present findings through concise commentary, visualizations, documentation, and stakeholder-ready presentations.
• Assess where AI or automation can improve workflows, while clearly communicating tradeoffs involving accuracy, transparency, risk, cost, and human oversight.

Skills

SQL skills

Python

Data storytelling

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Progress Residential is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Platform Operations team in Tempe, AZ. You will design, measure, and optimize data-informed service and property-turn workflows for a single-family rental operator.

You will turn ambiguous business needs into reliable analytical solutions, partner with business and technical teams, and present findings with clear data storytelling. The role emphasizes independence, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to apply AI