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Facebook is seeking an analyst to focus on research, reporting, and data-driven projects for the Sports Partnerships team within the larger Media Partnerships organization. The Sports Partnerships team at Facebook works closely with the leading content creators in the world, including leagues, teams, media, journalists and athletes. This is a unique opportunity to work with one of the richest data sets in the world and execute on a strategy designed to support sports publishers through data and insights in order to help them reach their objectives on and off Facebook platforms. Candidates must have experience working with large data sets, knowledge of the sports industry and a willingness to get scrappy.
Communicate findings and distill analyses into relevant actionable insights
Build dashboards and reports to track sports partners
Proactively leverage data to analyze trends amongst sports publishers and communicate findings to the rest of the Sports Team
Analyze and fix inconsistencies on taxonomy entities and metadata sets across all sports sub verticals
Run analyses to provide supporting details for partner case studies
Expand sports partnerships data infrastructure by building automated data pipelines
Assist with the creation of deep dive presentations for top-tier partner meetings
Work with global team to scale and standardize sports partner data support across markets
Work on special projects such as modeling content acquisition, tracking internal objectives, and helping facilitate data-focused deep-dives to enhance partner performance.
Present data/research projects to team members
BA/BS degree or higher
4+ years of experience in data, reporting, and analytical problem solving
Experience manipulating data sets in SQL or equivalent
Experience visualizing data sets
Familiarity with Facebook's Page Insights and KPIs sports publishers track externally
Understanding of the sports industry and sports publisher ecosystem on Facebook
Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results
Demonstrated experience in using Microsoft Excel
Experience working with Hive and Tableau
