Senior Analyst

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Position
Reports to: Senior Director, Analytics 
Location: Atlanta, GA

Senior Data Analysts at Cardlytics wear many hats, with responsibilities ranging from teaching the largest banking partners about their customers, financial modeling and forecasting of merchant spend, to analyzing marketing spend and campaign performance. Regardless of the team, you will go beyond basic statistics to provide actionable, whole wallet customer insights to a range of industry leading clients. You will partner with your manager and internal teams to derive meaning and shape business strategies based on our secure first-party data. You will work with your team directly consulting with key clients and the Client Success teams to present findings, build marketing strategies, and identify opportunities for insights. The ideal candidate will be someone who enjoys mining purchase data to understand customer spending habits, competitive landscapes, and customer journeys.

We are hiring analysts across our advertiser, bank and performance analytics teams. Ideal candidates are comfortable in their skills to mine data from a large relational database, but also have a natural curiosity to go beyond the data to understand "why."

Responsibilities

• Work with large datasets in a fast-paced environment, using R, SQL, and other statistical and data visualization tools to build custom analyses to answer client questions and influence and improve targeted marketing campaigns
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Cardlytics' data environment and how to find and explain data which characterizes a clients' customer journey
• Contribute to the broader company data culture through sharing insights and best practices
• Create new standard, repeatable, and well-documented code for your new analyses which can be used throughout the broader teams
• Monitor campaign performance to ensure that the network is performing at full potential
• Work with the latest data and statistical software to support projects such as forecasting, design and measure statistically valid tests, cluster analyses, and behavioral segmentations
• Partner with other internal analytics teams to provide context on forecasting estimates
• Manage quality control of all deliverables to ensure high standards of accuracy
• Manage and balance the prioritization of large-scope projects with short-term ad hoc requests
• Creatively develop ways to automate and improve processes

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Econometrics, Data Science or similar, quantitative field.
• 3-5 years of prior experience in Analytics is a must.
• Proficiency in SQL is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Econometrics, Data Science or similar, quantitative field.
• R, Python, or Tableau experience is a plus.

You are:

• An out-of-the-box thinker ready to join a strong and high-performing team, with working knowledge in relational databases and SQL coding
• Maintain a working knowledge of best statistical practices and are eager to implement them
• Curious and always go beyond what is happening to discover why
• Detail oriented with the ability to hit deadlines
• Able to maintain standard deliverables while growing your skillset and developing new

At Cardlytics, our people, partners and product are the driving force behind everything we do. Our shared values embody our commitment to those three things. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates with these values:

• Customer and Partner-first
• Act with Urgency and Focus
• Integrity with our partners and data
• Accountability even when challenged
• Empowerment over hierarchy
• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays 
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan