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Partner Services - Sports, Media Partnerships

Facebook

New York, NY

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Job Description

Posted On: December 14, 2016

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share, and make the world more open and connected. Through our growing family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that helps billions of people around the world connect and share what matters most to them. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to make the world more open and accessible. Connecting the world takes every one of us—and we're just getting started.


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 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. This role reports to the US Sports Partner Services lead.


Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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 tracking internal objectives, and helping facilitate data-focused deep-dives to enhance partner performance
  • Consult with Media Partnerships Research team on research methodologies and in-depth projects
  • Present data/research projects to team members


    Required Skills

    Minimum Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree or higher
  • 2+ 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


    Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with Hive and Tableau