Market and Optimization Analyst / Data Guru

New York, NY; Full Time

Job Summary

The Market and Optimization Analyst will be part of the Direct Navigation and Search team and will be responsible for optimization and management of one of the world’s largest domain name portfolios. The hire must be a team player, must be highly analytical and data driven, and have a keen understanding of how market and statistical data drive critical business decisions. This role will report directly to the VP/GM of Direct Navigation and Search.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Use data to develop insights into the business performance of our domain portfolio including domain profitability and various components of the user experience.
• Quickly understand business issues and data challenges which face our company.
• Live and breathe the massive amounts of data which we acquire on a daily basis and translate that understanding to management, helping to drive our strategy for growth.
• Be the brains behind the Optimization and Domain Portfolio teams, driving our optimization efforts across the domain portfolio and consumer search experiences.
• Measure and analyze existing business processes and develop better, more profitable, models, processes, and valuation tools.
• Own and automate the daily business dashboard.

Required Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be extremely comfortable with complex modeling and large datasets
• Interest in the domain name and internet advertising space
• Understanding of pay-per-click marketing
• Proactive, positive attitude and exceptional work ethic
• Highly proficient in MS Excel and SQL
• Highly analytical

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree
• Experience in the online media industry
• 2+ years online advertising experience

If this challenge is for you and you want to add to the success of our growing company, please submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@firstlook.com. Please put “Market and Optimization Analyst” in the subject of your email.