Channel Factory provides intelligent marketing solutions for the next generation of contextual safety, suitability, and performance for brands and agencies. Our platform helps marketers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the world’s largest video library, YouTube, and emerging growth channels. We sit at the intersection of marketing and suitability and have a mission of enabling the world’s top brands to consciously connect with the right audience in the right context, maximizing suitability and contextual performance.  Channel Factory embodies a strong start-up culture that values diversity, collaboration, and results. Our bias towards execution balances critical thinking, analysis, and pragmatic problem solving. We expect a lot from one another and value our thoughtful and intellectually curious company culture.  Channel Factory is headquartered in the United States and has global offices across 20+ cities/countries.  We are seeking a highly motivated, analytical, and creative problem solver to join our Analytics & Insights team. This role will work closely with account management, media, strategy, investment, and content teams to understand client objectives and provide data-driven solutions that optimize media performance and drive business growth. The ideal candidate will be adept at uncovering insights from data, building compelling narratives, and delivering strategic recommendations to clients. Key Responsibilities - Manage Analytics deliverables throughout all phases of a marketing/media analytics engagement, including project scoping, data analysis, project management, and presentation of results to internal and external stakeholders. - Develop and deliver integrated research, measurement, analytics, and insights to help clients optimize their media strategies and achieve campaign objectives. - Analyze campaign data across YouTube, social, and digital platforms to assess performance and effectiveness, providing actionable insights. - Identify key trends, performance drivers, and optimization opportunities, translating complex data into clear recommendations. - Develop and present client-facing reports, including topline weekly, deep-dive monthly, quarterly, mid-campaign, and wrap-up analyses utilizing tools such as Tableau, Dataroma, Looker, Qlic, Metabase, etc. - Collaborate with internal teams to enhance media planning, buying, and optimization strategies based on data insights. - Utilize brand suitability and contextual targeting methodologies to improve media efficiency and brand safety. - Monitor industry trends, advancements in measurement methodologies, and emerging ad tech solutions to keep Channel Factory at the forefront of innovation. - Provide strategic thought leadership and subject matter expertise on data, research methodologies, measurement, and analytical techniques to enhance our capabilities, drive competitive advantage, and bring new opportunities, approaches, ideas, perspectives, etc. to clients.  - Mentorship of junior team members  - All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Channel Factory provides intelligent marketing solutions for the next generation of contextual safety, suitability, and performance for brands and agencies. Our platform helps marketers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the world’s largest video library, YouTube, and emerging growth channels. We sit at the intersection of marketing and suitability and have a mission of enabling the world’s top brands to consciously connect with the right audience in the right context, maximizing suitability and contextual performance.  Channel Factory embodies a strong start-up culture that values diversity, collaboration, and results. Our bias towards execution balances critical thinking, analysis, and pragmatic problem solving. We expect a lot from one another and value our thoughtful and intellectually curious company culture.  Channel Factory is headquartered in the United States and has global offices across 20+ cities/countries.  We are seeking a highly motivated, analytical, and creative problem solver to join our Analytics & Insights team. This role will work closely with account management, media, strategy, investment, and content teams to understand client objectives and provide data-driven solutions that optimize media performance and drive business growth. The ideal candidate will be adept at uncovering insights from data, building compelling narratives, and delivering strategic recommendations to clients. Key Responsibilities - Manage Analytics deliverables throughout all phases of a marketing/media analytics engagement, including project scoping, data analysis, project management, and presentation of results to internal and external stakeholders. - Develop and deliver integrated research, measurement, analytics, and insights to help clients optimize their media strategies and achieve campaign objectives. - Analyze campaign data across YouTube, social, and digital platforms to assess performance and effectiveness, providing actionable insights. - Identify key trends, performance drivers, and optimization opportunities, translating complex data into clear recommendations. - Develop and present client-facing reports, including topline weekly, deep-dive monthly, quarterly, mid-campaign, and wrap-up analyses utilizing tools such as Tableau, Dataroma, Looker, Qlic, Metabase, etc. - Collaborate with internal teams to enhance media planning, buying, and optimization strategies based on data insights. - Utilize brand suitability and contextual targeting methodologies to improve media efficiency and brand safety. - Monitor industry trends, advancements in measurement methodologies, and emerging ad tech solutions to keep Channel Factory at the forefront of innovation. - Provide strategic thought leadership and subject matter expertise on data, research methodologies, measurement, and analytical techniques to enhance our capabilities, drive competitive advantage, and bring new opportunities, approaches, ideas, perspectives, etc. to clients.  - Mentorship of junior team members  - All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Compiling actionable insights from data • Assisting sales, marketing, and product managers build data-driven processes • Driving business decisions and product roadmap through ad-hoc analysis, story telling, and dashboard visualization • Ensuring data flows smoothly from source to destination for processing • Utilizing strong database skills (SQL) to work with large, complex data sets • Filtering and cleansing unstructured data into usable data sets • Identifying new internal and external data sources for analytics initiatives • Building tools for automating repetitive tasks • Building data and feature aggregation pipeline for dashboard datasources • Visualizing data and insights with BI tools such as Tableau, Data Studio, Power BI

Be essential at Cars Commerce At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry. No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. 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We are seeking a versatile Technical Data Analyst who loves to solve puzzles and bridge the gap between human problems and technical solutions. In this role, you’ll act as the essential "connective tissue" between our Support and Engineering teams, ensuring that our product remains high-quality, our data stays clean, and our developers are working on the right challenges.ABOUT THIS ROLE: - Technical Triage & Gatekeeping: Acting as the primary bridge between Support and Engineering. You will analyze L2 tickets and technical issues to ensure they are fully qualified, documented, and reproducible before being moved to the developer backlog. - QA & Precision Engineering: Serving as the final checkpoint for developer output. You will perform functional QA to ensure that features not only work technically but align perfectly with the original project scope and business requirements. - Root Cause Analysis: Conduct deep-dive data analysis to identify patterns or anomalies in product behavior, translating these findings into actionable technical tasks. - Data Translation: Translating complex technical concepts, data structures, or website behaviors into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders and clients. - Bug & Backlog Contribution: Understanding, qualifying, and triaging upcoming bugs. - Product Expertise (SME): Remaining the Subject Matter Expert for your respective products and supporting any questions that cannot be readily answered by the Support team. - AI & Data Initiatives: Identifying opportunities to work on data analysis projects and AI initiatives to drive product innovation. - Training: Providing training materials to the Customer Support Manager to ensure proper team scaling and maintaining the internal knowledge base (wikis, presentations). ABOUT YOU: - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Technology Management (BTM), Information Systems, Statistics, or a related technical field. A Master’s degree or relevant technical certifications are a plus. - Proven Experience: Demonstrated experience as a Product Analyst, Technical Data Analyst, or similar role, with a proven track record of triaging complex technical issues and ensuring product quality through rigorous QA and data validation. - Technical Proficiency: Experience with multiple data formats (CSV, JSON, XML) and an understanding of website structures. Proficiency in SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages for data manipulation, analysis, and visualization. Comfortable using Browser Developer Tools to investigate website behavior and data payloads. - Analytical Mindset: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and strategically about complex issues and perform Root Cause Analysis. - Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences. - Detail-Oriented & Organized: Exceptional attention to detail; able to manage multiple technical investigations, QA cycles, and documentation tasks simultaneously while meeting tight release deadlines. - Collaborative Team Player: A strong cross-functional collaborator with excellent interpersonal skills, responsible for facilitating direct communication and alignment between Support teams, Developers, and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position. In addition to base salary, some roles are eligible for our bonus and/or equity programs, depending on level and role. Regular full-time positions are eligible for our comprehensive benefits package. If you are hired at Cars Commerce, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills and/or experience. If the salary range is close to what you're seeking, then we encourage you to apply and learn more about the total compensation package for this position. Salary Range $65,500.00-80,250.00 Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes: - Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans - New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up - Generous PTO - Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages! For US-based Positions: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Please note that we are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Applicants: Click here to review our Privacy Policy for Applicants. For current employees, please click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Employees.