Manager, Data Analytics & Insights

The Philadelphia Inquirer is looking for a motivated, experienced Data Analytics leader to lead, coach and develop high-performing analysts in The Inquirer’s Data and Insights team. Using their keen product sense and analytical rigor, this person will partner with Product, Newsroom, Marketing and Sales stakeholders to drive analysis that enables insight-informed decisions and measures impact across acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention initiatives. This person will identify ways to make the team’s work more effective and efficient, so that analysts have time to explore our data sets and provide stakeholders with new insights. They will also partner closely with Data Engineering to continually evolve the Inquirer’s robust data analytics infrastructure, and User Research to blend hard numbers with human stories and help create user-focused strategies.

• Coach and mentor a team of data and digital analysts, providing guidance on analytical methodologies, data exploration and visualization, and project prioritization as necessary.
• Engage with key stakeholders to understand business strategy, questions and goals. Bring structure to business requests, prioritize analytics needs, and create and execute effective analytics approaches to provide timely, relevant and actionable insights, and measure project impact.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to acquire and compile structured and unstructured data and verify quality and accuracy. Provide requirements for data modeling and downstream usage.
• Provides guidance and coaches data analyst team towards best practices and learnings for analyses of historical data to identify audience segments, trends and insights using advanced analytical methods. Develop/maintain predictive models for prioritized use cases. Provide statistical consultation to other analysts.
• Lead analysts as they prepare and deliver expert level visualizations and internal presentations that translate analytic insights into tangible, actionable solutions for business partners to implement.
• Evolve self service data strategy, and develop, own and manage recurring analytic or reporting processes including prioritization, planning and refinement.
• Design experiments using statistically sound methodologies. Analyze complex experiments, interpret and present findings, provide insights and recommendations for business next steps, recommend next experiment(s).
• Actively develop analysts by mentoring, coaching and connecting others with resources and training to advance their technical skill sets, and to stay informed of industry innovations in analytics and tools.
• Present regularly at company wide and department gatherings.
• Serve as the analytics expert on strategic initiatives, and participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills (including goal setting, work/life balance management, teaching skills), and a passion to lead a team
• Advanced programming skills in SQL, Python/R
• Strong data analysis and predictive modeling skills with ability to tell compelling stories, visualize data, present actionable insights
• Clear communicator with good documentation skills, particularly for audiences unfamiliar with the technology / terminology
• Ability to identify high priority analysis needs and act on them; advocate/ influence for projects and resources
• Working knowledge of Cloud Data Warehouse tools / platforms, particularly dbt
• Working knowledge of web tagging implementation; intermediate experience with GA4 and Google Tag Manager (GTM)
• Contribute to an inclusive and positive work environment
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

• Five years of related data analysis or science work experience
• Minimum of three years leading analytics teams or other management experience
• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative sciences field (e.g., data science, mathematics or statistics, computer science, biological sciences) or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience in experiment or A/B testing design, and analysis
• Familiarity with Bayesian statistical theory
• Experience in media industry a plus
  
  

About Us.

Since 1829, The Philadelphia Inquirer has been “asking on behalf of the people” of Philadelphia and the region by providing essential journalism. Locally owned and headquartered in Center City Philadelphia, The Inquirer is a for-profit public benefit corporation under the non-profit Lenfest Institute. Its multiple brand platforms — including newspapers, Inquirer.com, e-Editions, apps, newsletters, podcasts, and live events — provide Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism to a growing audience that includes more than 180,000 subscribers and 20 million monthly impressions.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is committed to attracting a diverse group of people to join our team. As part of our mission, we are seeking candidates who share our passion for indispensable journalism and our drive to create a sustainable business model to support it.

We value diverse levels of experience, abilities, and backgrounds. Because of this, we encourage you to apply, even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed in the job description. The Inquirer may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

The Inquirer is building an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We especially encourage people from marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds to apply for vacant positions at all levels of the organization, including but not limited to people of color, women, people who identify as LGBTQIA , and people with disabilities. We are an equal opportunity employer for all regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, and any other category protected by federal, state and/or local law.