What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Data Intelligence position at Blavity Inc.?
Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded technology and news media company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, and unique experiences. The company has grown into a market leader for Black media, reaching over 80 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity News, Blavity Politics, 21Ninety, AfroTech, Travel Noire, and Shadow & Act. Assembled of passionate, high-energy, and focused rock-stars, our Blavity, Inc. Team executes our values at the forefront of mind: Love of Community, Transparency and Communication, Collective Responsibility, and Fail Fast. Blavity, Inc. is continuously looking for new team members to help us continue to scale, cultivate our community, and advance our strategic direction.
Job Summary:
Blavity, Inc. is seeking an Associate Director, Data Intelligence to implement a data infrastructure that utilizes advanced analytical solutions to generate insights about our audience, clients, campaigns, and partners and their behavior to deepen our audience engagement. The ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial appetite for making Blavity, Inc. the leading provider of first-party data on Black Millennials and the Gen-Z Audience. This is a role with significant opportunity for career advancement and ownership.
This role will report directly to the COO.
Responsibilities:
- Own and drive adoption of critical new projects for the company such as a data clean room, customer data platform, and data lake
- Work closely with Commerce & Engineering teams to collect first-party data from our commerce brands, extract insights and develop consumer profiles
- Work with complex data structures and produce easy-to-understand, error-free, and timely deliverables that analyze user behavior online to provide actionable insights that address business objectives
- Independently own strategic initiatives that strengthen and elevate Blavity, Inc. analytics offering, including designing, executing, and productizing custom analyses that support client business objectives, onboarding new data partners and tools, and reimagining legacy approaches to D&A tasks
- Champion a data-driven culture and drive long-term business value creation through the development of best-in-class analytics capabilities
- Apply statistics, clustering, modeling, and machine learning algorithms to complex business problems
Qualifications:
- Education: BA
- Required Experience:
- 6 years experience in Data Science or Intelligence
- Additional Qualifications:
- Strong ability to condense complex concepts and analysis into clear and concise takeaways that drive action
- Experience with large datasets, statistical analyses, data visualization
- Strong experience with marketing analytics (campaign/experiment planning and execution)
- Full-stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productionalization, and monitoring of data science products
- Strong ability to manage priorities across multiple stakeholders
- A healthy appreciation of GIFs and Black culture
Details: This is a fully remote role, occasional travel may be required. Candidates must be available to work at least 50% in alignment with the Pacific Time Zone.
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter online at BlavityInc.com/Careers.
Blavity is committed to creating a diverse environment free of discrimination and harassment, and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
Blavity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, HIV Status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
