Product Data Analyst

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 44 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 227 million freight posts in 2021, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Product Data Analyst to join our Product Insights team in Denver, CO or Beaverton, OR.

Candidate profile

The Product Insights (PI) team turns our customer data into the actionable knowledge that builds the most in-demand products in our industry.  

As part of this team, you’ll bring your passion for using data to drive value to our customers and DAT at the same time.

You are:

• Intellectually curious
• A critical thinker with the determination to rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value
• Able to turn complex data into a compelling (and accurate) narrative
• A productive individual contributor who is also a strong team player

What You’ll Do

• Represent the PI team on a portfolio of DAT’s products through every stage of the products’ lifecycles
• Work with the PI team and key stakeholders to establish meaningful and measurable success metrics for product initiatives
• Create tracking plans for new features according to DAT’s instrumentation guidelines, work with Product and Engineering teams to get them implemented, and validate the implementations
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to acquire the data sources necessary to accomplish PI’s work
• Access and manipulate data in DAT’s data warehouse 
• Provide quantitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in order to drive product decisions
• Address product questions with user-friendly deliverables that tell a story through data
• Work with the PI team to design and implement A/B tests to evaluate the success of product initiatives
• Help to create an enduring information asset for the company by actively improving the team’s documentation, including adding useful content beyond the results of the work

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• A solid understanding of descriptive and inferential statistical methods
• Demonstrated experience performing reporting and analysis
• Experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.
• Experience with SQL and a programming language (Python, R, JavaScript, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results and recommendations in written, verbal and presentation form to audiences non-technical audiences
• Strong aptitude and desire for learning new technology platforms, and new analysis and presentation tools, and new analysis techniques. 
• Ability to be responsive to changing business needs, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments, and handle ambiguity
• Demonstrated ability to work as a partner to achieve mutually agreeable results in a mutually agreeable timeline

Bonus Skills

• Experience as part of a Product team
• Experience in the freight industry
• Understanding of the product instrumentation processes, including experience using product instrumentation tools like Segment or Google Tag Manager
• Experience with product-focused business intelligence tools like Google Analytics, Amplitude, or Mixpanel
• Experience using ticketing and code management tools like Jira, Bitbucket, or Github
• A/B testing and experiment design experience in a product context, especially with tools like Optimizely

(Colorado only) In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $80,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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