Director, Business Intelligence - Yahoo Sports

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.

About the Role

As the Director of Business Intelligence, you will partner with the GM of Yahoo Sports by delivering business intelligence, audience insights and actionable analyses to drive product improvements. Furthermore, you will: 

• Partner with key stakeholders across Research, Analytics and Data Science  

• Leverage internal and external (Comscore, SimilarWeb, GWI, Data AI) data sets to inform and inspire stakeholders.

• Manage and mentor a small team of analysts.

• Be on the edge of industry and market trends on sports products including product, content, and consumer trends. 

Responsibilities

• Be a business partner with the General Manager of Yahoo Sports by delivering actionable business and audience insights proactively.

• Collaborate across the broader working teams (Data Science, Voice of the Consumer, Product Analytics, Marketing) to help achieve its OKRs and improve the user experience by presenting actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

• Partner with editorial, product, finance, operations, and strategy teams - ensuring data integrity and delivering key insights.

• Be a hands-on manager and a mentor to a small team of junior analysts and scale them up to be experts in the industry. 

• Contribute to strategic projects through innovation to execution to analytical overviews, across Yahoo Sports.

• Provide ad hoc analyses to gain insight into user experiences and behavior and present actionable insights and recommendations.

• Perform deep dive analyses on web/app activity and other Yahoo data to detect opportunities and insights that drive support and learning strategies.

• Deliver actionable market trends and insights to the organization using third-party data such as Comscore, SimilarWeb, and App Annie.  

• Build and effectively communicate data stories to executives and key stakeholders via presentations, written summaries, and data visualizations.

• Frame business problems into questions that can be answered through data analysis, and translate business needs into requirements

• Deliver the insights and reporting to the media & content, operations & strategy, and product teams with the insight they need to optimize their business areas.  

You Must Have

• Passion for Sports and facilitating cool products as well as experience working in Sports media or digital sports properties

• 7+ years of relevant experience with expertise around analytics, research, and insights delivery.

• Bachelor's degree required, masters degree preferred. 

• Self-motivated, results-driven, and team-oriented leader.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment juggling multiple projects often under tight and concurrent deadlines and stakeholder needs immediate.

• Exceptional written/verbal communication skills and professional demeanor.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering actionable insights on digital products and content.

• Innovative and creative with a self-starter mentality and eagerness to take on new tasks.

• Proficiency in digital analytics tools such as Google or Adobe Analytics and visualization tools such as Looker or Tableau.  

• Proficiency in third-party tools such as Comscore, SimilarWeb, and Data AI.

• Strong analytical skills and quantitative mindset with understanding of basic statistics.

• Experience in leveraging multiple types of data (i.e. audience traffic data, revenue data & survey insights) to provide actionable business insights. 

• Proven track record and enthusiasm for complex problem solving and analysis, including working with large data sets and great Excel skills.

• Strong communication skills and ability to craft and present data driven analyses and insights to articulate performance and opportunities to key stakeholders.

• Significant experience, proficiency in, and passion for mobile and web products.

• Team player in driving growth results combined with a positive attitude and high emotional intelligence.

• Strong work ethic and core values (honesty, integrity, creativity, etc).

• Proficiency with SQL required.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, ge