Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Snap; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, SMC in Santa Monica to transform data into strategic insights for product and advertiser teams.

You’ll build dashboards, perform cross‑source analyses, and tell clear data stories that influence decisions and revenue growth. The role requires strong SQL and Python or R skills, 5+ years of quantitative analysis experience, and a collaborative, agile mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of quantitative analysis and research experience.
• Strong SQL and Python/R for analysis and data visualization.

Responsibilities

• Understand business challenges and help leadership make data-driven decisions by analyzing data from multiple sources.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports to optimize advertiser performance and product development.
• Distill complex analytical concepts into clear data stories to influence decision making.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define measurement plans and provide data-based insights for products in alpha or beta.

Skills

SQL

Python/R

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ Economics/ Mathematics

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.

Snapchat is a camera and messaging app that connects people to their friends and the world. Every day around the globe, millions of people use Snapchat to communicate with friends, build relationships, play, and learn. No matter where you are or how you express yourself, it’s always the fastest way to share a moment!

We’re looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, SMC to join Team Snapchat!

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 with Account Management to provide real time analysis for auction campaigns; influence incremental spend through data driven upsell recommendations
• 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.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/economics/mathematics or equivalent preferred
• 5+ 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
• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic environment
• Ability to work individually while operating as a collaborative team player
• 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 communi