Business Analyst III
Apply NowCompany: Fanatics
Location: Los Angeles, CA 90011
Description:
Job Description
The Role
As a Data Analyst you will demonstrate comprehensive analytical, communication and technical abilities through placing quantitative frameworks around the products we create, our users, and our business, communicating insights and progress in a compelling way to all levels of the business, and helping to define and build our data infrastructure. In this critical position, you will leverage studies and suggest data driven solutions to enable your key partners to draw relevant conclusions across the verticals. This role requires excellent attention to detail, strong SQL skills, the ability to work cross-functionally and to communicate effectively.
This is a unique opportunity to join and make a lasting impact on a fast-growing company. The ideal candidate should be creative, entrepreneurial, passionate, highly analytical and goal oriented. This role will need to be nimble and adaptable at the early stages of a fast growing startup.
What You'll Do
What You'll Need
Bonus
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
About the Team
Fanatics Collectibles is a leading licensor, producer, designer, and seller of physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets for entertainment and sports properties globally, as well as a manufacturer of physical and digital trading cards. It has secured exclusive licensing arrangements with major national professional sports leagues, including the MLB, NFL and the NBA, and related players associations, to produce physical and digital trading cards and other collectibles.
Fanatics Collectibles also has partnerships with a number of individual international sports teams and leagues, as well as owners of other entertainment properties granting similar exclusive rights. Fanatics Collectibles recently announced Fanatics Live, expected to launch later in 2023, which will focus on transforming the digital shopping experience through personality-driven content and entertainment.
The Role
As a Data Analyst you will demonstrate comprehensive analytical, communication and technical abilities through placing quantitative frameworks around the products we create, our users, and our business, communicating insights and progress in a compelling way to all levels of the business, and helping to define and build our data infrastructure. In this critical position, you will leverage studies and suggest data driven solutions to enable your key partners to draw relevant conclusions across the verticals. This role requires excellent attention to detail, strong SQL skills, the ability to work cross-functionally and to communicate effectively.
This is a unique opportunity to join and make a lasting impact on a fast-growing company. The ideal candidate should be creative, entrepreneurial, passionate, highly analytical and goal oriented. This role will need to be nimble and adaptable at the early stages of a fast growing startup.
What You'll Do
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data modeling, data mining, and data presentation to see beyond the numbers and understand how users interact with both our consumer and business products.
- Identify the opportunities most important for growth, to remove barriers for product adoption, retention, engagement, and monetization
- Understand funnels, ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends in adapting our products to identify opportunities for step-changes and angle changes in growth.
- Implement event tracking across product verticals and define and analyze metrics that inform the success of these features
- Define and build data models to increase accessibility, scalability and reliability of data to the business.
- Design experiments to drive product direction with iterative innovation and measurement
- Own data collection and product instrumentation implementation and quality assurance
- Work with business, product, engineering, and design to influence and inform teammates' decisions throughout the initiative lifecycle
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics or a related field
- 5+ years of analytics experience in a consumer internet business or a high-velocity, high-growth product or business unit
- Demonstrated proficiency with SQL and data modeling tools such as DBT.
- Proficient working knowledge with different ETL platforms and tools, extensive data warehouse environments.
- Proven experience in behavior analytics tools like Mixpanel, Amplitude, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, etc.
- Experience building dashboards, reports, or tools through technologies such as Metabase, Tableau, Looker, Excel etc.
- Experience in statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, product experimentation, regressions).
- Experience working with large data sets
- Excellent writing and critical analytic thinking
- Proven problem-solving skills concerning unstructured, uncertain problems
- Ability to dive deep and demonstrate attention to detail
Bonus
- Technical background and programming experience-especially R or Python.
- Experience with product design or product wire-framing tools.
- Experience with software development/coding and working closely with software engineers.
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
About the Team
Fanatics Collectibles is a leading licensor, producer, designer, and seller of physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets for entertainment and sports properties globally, as well as a manufacturer of physical and digital trading cards. It has secured exclusive licensing arrangements with major national professional sports leagues, including the MLB, NFL and the NBA, and related players associations, to produce physical and digital trading cards and other collectibles.
Fanatics Collectibles also has partnerships with a number of individual international sports teams and leagues, as well as owners of other entertainment properties granting similar exclusive rights. Fanatics Collectibles recently announced Fanatics Live, expected to launch later in 2023, which will focus on transforming the digital shopping experience through personality-driven content and entertainment.