Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Analytics & Decision Support, YouTube

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch, R Programming

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science) or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in data engineering or business intelligence role.
• Experience with relational databases including SQL queries, database definition and schema design.
• Experience with developing front-end reporting with Business Intelligence suites (e.g., Data Studio, Tableau, Sisense, Looker, Qlikview, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree, MBA, or other advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Experience writing and maintaining extract, transform, and load scripts (ETLs) which operate on a variety of structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (Python, Java, C++, etc.).
• Experience with presenting complex technical solutions to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

About the job

The YouTube Strategy, BizOps and Analytics (SBA) team’s mission is to make YouTube commercially sustainable and more valuable, by identifying and steering the business towards the opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation and operations. With teams around the globe, the SBA team works closely with YouTube leadership across the product, engineering and business organizations to address challenges and opportunities across the company, help chart the long-term direction for YouTube, and provide analytics and decision support for the planning and steering of the business. SBA is a multi-specialist team, with several specialist capabilities across all three pillars of the team: Strategy, Business Operations, and Analytics & Decision Support.

As a Business Intelligence Analyst within Analytics & Decision Support, you will be part of a community of technical data analysts who work on impactful projects ranging from developing critical data pipelines that help run the business, build tools to analyze the content partnerships and creator ecosystem which guide business leadership on optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of our partner facing business teams.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and deployment of centralized reports, dashboards, models and tools to analyze, report, and present partnerships and operations related data that is associated with YouTube Content organization
• Use effective data visualization and analytical skills to simplify complex business flows and enable faster decision making and execution
• Own strategy for shared analyst infrastructure (e.g., code base, business intelligence stack), and continually innovate on infrastructure for the analyst community to utilize. Communicate to all relevant stakeholders as needed, and solicit, record, prioritize and incorporate relevant feedback on metrics platform
• Advocate for technical best practices within the analyst community on pipelines, dashboards, code review practices, and data concepts
• Conduct requirements gathering and project scoping sessions with subject matter experts, business users, and executive stakeholders to discover and define business reporting needs