Data Analyst
Company Background:
Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men's, Women's, Children's, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.
Data Analyst needed to assist all departments in rapidly growing business. This role sits in the Data Analytics technology team, which is responsible for helping the business make better data-driven decisions. Stakeholders include Finance, Merchandising, Marketing and the office of the CEO.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to learn through data about a fascinating new retail business model that is experiencing tremendous growth.
Skills
• Proficient in SQL and able to quickly grasp a complicated data model.
• Knowledgeable of data manipulation linux/unix command line tools, such as grep, awk, cut, perl in general
• Can learn new things independently
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in pulling, parsing/cleaning and interpreting large data sets for empirical analysis
Responsibilities
• Interface with the business managers to translate their requirements into data sets.
• Proactively partner with the business managers to inform them of any and all caveats about the data they are requesting and pitfalls in interpretation.
• Look for patterns in the types of data that are requested and use existing tools to automate/productize those requests.
• Provide feedback to the Product team on enhancements to the data model.
If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]
