Senior Business Associate

SoGal Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Zola is seeking a Senior Associate to join our business management team in NYC. You will analyze and execute strategic initiatives across the company, partnering with Product, Marketing, Finance and other groups to drive actionable business decisions.

You will translate data into insights, own analyses of A/B tests, and help prepare board materials. Strong Excel skills and experience with large datasets are essential, as is the ability to communicate clearly to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required.
• 3+ years in an analytical role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Strategy/finance/bizops experience preferred.
• Retail or consumer experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner across the business to identify and execute on key strategic initiatives.
• Analyze and report on performance across core KPIs.
• Collaborate with Product to identify features and support with analysis.
• Conduct business and financial analysis of new opportunities.
• Maintain and evolve reporting cadences with Finance and cross-functional teams.
• Assist in preparing board materials.
• Own analysis of A/B test results and translate into recommendations.
• Communicate key takeaways to senior leadership.
• Translate ambiguous questions into structured analyses and drive decisions.
• Develop and execute ad hoc strategic analyses as needed.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Excel

Data analysis

Cross-functional

Communication

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Looker

BI tools

Job description

Here at Zola, we're seeking an exceptional Senior Associate to join our business management team. This individual will help analyze and execute strategic initiatives across Zola. We're looking for a collaborative, scrappy, analytical problem-solver who can help dig into the data to drive actionable business decisions. You'll report directly to the Director of the Core Experience, and you'll partner closely with Product, Marketing, Finance, and many other teams at Zola.
Our ideal candidate has a strong foundation in analytical or quantitative work, whether that's in consulting, finance, strategy, or a high-growth company. You are a structured and creative thinker, equally comfortable building a financial model and synthesizing a market opportunity. You love data and customer insights, you are comfortable in Excel and dealing with large datasets, and you can prove your ability to learn new systems quickly. And you love working with kind, smart colleagues who share a commitment to putting the customer first!

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Partnering across the business to identify and execute on key strategic initiatives
  • Analyzing and reporting on performance along our primary KPIs across the business
  • Collaborating with Product to identify new features and opportunities, and supporting them with performance analysis
  • Conducting business and financial analysis of new opportunities and ideas
  • Partnering with Finance and cross-functional teams to maintain and evolve the reporting cadences that keep the business running
  • Assisting in the preparation of board materials
• Diving deep in the data to drive actionable business decisions
  • Owning the analysis and interpretation of A/B test results by synthesizing findings,and translating outcomes into clear, actionable recommendations
  • Analyzing complex data problems and communicating the key takeaways clearly to senior leadership
  • Translating ambiguous business questions into structured analyses that drive decisions
  • Developing and executing ad hoc strategic analyses as needed

Qualifications

• BA/BS required
• 3+ years of professional experience in an analytical role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
  • Strategy, finance, or bizops experience preferred
  • Retail or consumer experience is a plus
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills; able to conduct analysis with minimal oversight
• Proficiency in analyzing large data sets. Looker or a similar BI platform experience is a plus.
• Excellent quantitative and Excel skills
• Superior written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage competing tasks in a highly ambiguous environment
• Ability to build trusted cross-functional relationships

Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $90,000-$100,000. This full-time role will be hybrid at our office in NYC (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

About Zola

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love.

We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We’re proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.

We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we’re proud of our thriving community of over 1 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.

We have offices in NYC and Montreal. Come work with us!