Sr Data Analyst, Spotlight Listings

News Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13 Paid Holidays

Flexible Time Off

401(k) with 3.5% match

Tuition Reimbursement

Volunteer Time Off

Free snacks & refreshments

Job summary

Realtor.com in Austin, TX is seeking a Sr Data Analyst for Spotlight Listings. You will own the measurement framework, build dashboards, and partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales to drive measurable product impact.

You will apply advanced analytics, A/B testing, and modeling to understand usage and guide product strategy in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative field.
• Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience if applicable.
• 5+ years of relevant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end measurement framework for live product line with KPIs, dashboards, and instrumentation.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses using A/B testing, statistics, and ML techniques to inform product decisions.
• Forecast and size opportunities to drive product improvement and growth.
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Sales to shape commercial strategy and drive business impact.
• Analyze health of engagement and funnel metrics, communicating insights to stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Data visualization

Data exploration

Tableau

Shiny

Streamlit

AWS

Snowflake

Excel

Google Sheets

Python

R

Experimentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics, Math, Economics, or equivalent

Master’s Degree with 3+ years of experience

Tools

Tableau

Shiny

Streamlit

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Sr Data Analyst, Spotlight Listings

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Data Science & Analytics

Job ID: 3107

Description

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

• End-to-end ownership: You’d own the full measurement framework for a live product line — KPIs, dashboards, and instrumentation — not just contribute analyses to someone else’s model.
• Solve High-Complexity Marketplace Problems: This is a playground for advanced analytics. You will tackle non-trivial, two-sided marketplace challenges including pricing/packaging optimization and causal inference for interventions where standard A/B test assumptions often break down.
• Strategic Executive Visibility: Because Spotlight Listing a growth area for the next few years, this role offers high exposure to high-profile stakeholders. You won’t just be presenting charts; you will be partnering with Product, Marketing, and Sales to shape commercial decisions and drive measurable product impact..

What You’ll Do:

• Business Performance Reporting, Visualization and Analysis: Be the primary partner for our cross-functional stakeholders to understand product performance. When a metric is ahead or behind expectations, dig in to drive meaningful, actionable insights that help the business performance improve or double-down on success.
• Deep-Dive Analysis: Use advanced techniques (A/B experimentation, statistical modeling, matched pair, and/or machine learning) to analyze consumer product performance at a lead and feature level. Create a rich understanding of how people are interacting with product features and use these insights to then make recommendations.
• Opportunity Identification and Sizing: Both to set goals and help evaluate potential product enrichment opportunities, you will be tasked with forecasting and opportunity sizing. This will help our Product stakeholders understand the short-run and long-run dynamics of proposed changes to our product strategy, and create targets for driving business performance as well as optimize lead generation and funnel improvement opportunities.
• Partnership and Communication: Partner closely with our Product stakeholders to identify and unlock opportunities, and with other data teams to improve platform capabilities around data architecture, data visualization, data modeling, and testing platforms.
• Build trust in all interactions and help make sure Seller Customer interactions is included in the build out of Amplitude and be an advocate for adoption
• Be responsible for understanding key drivers of the Net Promoter Score for seller-focused customer products and helping to identify actionable paths for product and customer care to take on to improve NPS.
• Build relationships with other products and analytics teams to share best practices and enrich analytic practices
• Conduct quantitative analysis, ad hoc reports, & statistical models to understand the health and latest trends among product engagement and funnel conversion consumer metrics
• Create impactful data insights and analysis from Analytic Plan creation thru End-of-Analysis summaries

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics, Math, Economics, or equivalent work experience required
• 5+ years of relevant experience or a Master’s Degree with 3+ years of experience
• Experience using data to analyze product feature performance is preferred
• Advanced knowledge in SQL
• Experience with data exploration and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Shiny, Streamlit, etc.
• Experience with cloud-based data environments such as AWS and Snowflake
• Advanced technical and modeling skills including Excel or Google Sheet skills (e.g. pivot, vlookup, etc.) and data analytics
• Understanding of experimentation and statistics concepts (e.g. confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, etc.)
• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret product performance drivers as well as how analyze a conversion funnel with key fallout points identified
• Intense curiosity, high intellectual and analytical horsepower, passionate pursuit of analytics driven insights
• Strong communication skills as well as written and verbal presentation skills and experience presenting to diverse audiences
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative environment
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong time management and organizational skills

Preferred skills & Experience:

• Experience in a subscription business
• Knowledge in Python or R

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our Austin headquarters, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location