Product Analytics Specialist

Suntimes; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 88,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Chicago Public Media seeks a Product Analyst to partner with Product, Innovation and other teams to turn data into actionable insights that drive performance across digital products, audience experiences, editorial initiatives, and business priorities.

You will translate stakeholder goals into measurement plans, dashboards, and analytics implementations, maintain tracking systems, and support launches, migrations, and experiments with rigorous data analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and analytics implementation.
• Experience with SQL and working in data warehouses
• Experience with Looker or other BI tools
• Advanced analytical skills with experience collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating abundant information with accuracy
• Strong communication and presentation skills – written, visual, and verbal
• Experience with app analytics, audio analytics, or cross-platform product measurement.
• A collaborative mindset and sense of curiosity is essential
• Experience working with data visualization tools, building interactive reports, creating dashboards for different audiences, and developing calculated KPIs or metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead analyses that help product, innovation, and business teams understand audience behavior, identify opportunities, and make data-informed decisions.
• Map user journeys with data to demonstrate how audiences interact with our products.
• Translate product, innovation, and business questions into clear metrics, tracking plans, dashboards, and recommendations.
• Own analytics tracking and measurement setup across websites, apps, audio products, and editorial analytics tools.
• Validate tracking, monitor data quality, and resolve reporting or implementation issues.
• Support product launches, migrations, workflow improvements, and experiments through measurement planning, data analysis, and QA.
• Develop dashboards, reports, documentation, and automated workflows that help teams monitor performance.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners on analytics, tracking, and reporting needs.

Skills

Google Analytics

SQL

Looker

Analytical thinking

Communication

App analytics

Cross-platform measurement

Tools

Google Tag Manager

Google Sheets

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Chicago Public Media seeks a Product Analyst to partner with Product, Innovation and other teams to turn data into actionable insights that drive performance across digital products, audience experiences, editorial initiatives, and business priorities.

You will translate stakeholder goals into measurement plans, dashboards, and analytics implementations, maintain tracking systems, and support launches, migrations, and experiments with rigorous data analysis.