Strategic Commercial Analytics Analyst

FanDuel; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FanDuel Total Rewards

Job summary

FanDuel Group is seeking a Commercial Analyst to deliver insights on online Racing market dynamics, competitive trends, and business performance, partnering with cross-functional teams to guide strategic decisions.

The role focuses on forecasting, budgeting, and analytics for the Racing/Sports BU, leveraging data pipelines (Python, SQL, Databricks) and building scalable dashboards for leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a numerate field (business, math, stats, econ, finance, etc.)
• Minimum 1 year of analytics, business strategy, or related experience.
• Ability synthesize inputs from imperfect data sources into a coherent POV
• Comfort building structured analyses, models, or frameworks
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders; strong SQL/Excel/AI; Python/Databricks useful; Tableau a plus

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve recurring performance reporting for leadership; weekly/monthly deep dives and executive-ready summaries — automating production so time goes into the analysis
• Analyze marketing and promo efficiency — cohort targeting, spend allocation, and campaign performance
• Support the team’s commercial forecasting and budgeting process, translating analytics, strategy, and market signals into forecast assumptions and helping explain plan-to-actual variance
• Partner with Product to assess pre- and post-launch impact of product changes, layering in how customer KPIs respond
• Partner cross-functionally with teams such as Product, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, and Analytics to connect external market insights with internal performance
• Support the team’s share-of-wallet reporting and external data partnerships, helping size competitive position in a way leadership can act on
• Support strategic and competitive assessments through structured analysis and scenario thinking
• Translate complex data and analyses into clear narratives and recommendations, tailored to senior stakeholders and decision-makers
• Help build and maintain scalable self-service tools and dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Databricks) that improve access to external insights across the organization, and contribute to the team’s reusable, AI-assisted workflows for reporting and ad hoc analysis

Skills

SQL

Excel

AI

Python

Databricks

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a numerate field

Tools

Databricks

Tableau

Job description

FanDuel Group is seeking a Commercial Analyst to deliver insights on online Racing market dynamics, competitive trends, and business performance, partnering with cross-functional teams to guide strategic decisions.

The role focuses on forecasting, budgeting, and analytics for the Racing/Sports BU, leveraging data pipelines (Python, SQL, Databricks) and building scalable dashboards for leadership and stakeholders.