Job Description
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization, and they are seeking a motivated and skilled Project Employee – Data Intelligence Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role involves translating social and digital data into actionable analytical insights to inform strategic decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Analyze data to generate insights that inform strategy, planning, and performance measurement
- Partner with social content team, fan engagement, media, and commercial teams to define metrics, standardize definitions, and ensure consistent performance tracking
- Develop and maintain data tracking schedule to fill data gaps across platforms
- Monitor data and API connections in Fivetran and communicate errors and findings to database solutions team
- Maintain manual data entry and export/upload process for platforms with API gaps
- Build, maintain, and evolve dashboards and recurring reporting that track fan engagement, growth, and business performance against core KPIs
- Conduct ad-hoc, exploratory, and deep-dive analyses
- Support measurement frameworks, testing, and experimentation (e.g., campaign performance, re-engagement efforts, segmentation effectiveness)
- Translate data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for stakeholders with varying levels of data fluency
- Ensure data quality, accuracy, and proper interpretation across first- and third-party data sources
- Contribute to the development of scalable analytics assets, documentation, and best practices to improve self-service analytics over time
- Collaborate on data management projects (e.g. data standardization projects, data mapping)
Skills
- Strong analytical skills with experience working in SQL and at least one analytics or BI tool (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI)
- Experience analyzing marketing, fan, customer, or business performance data
- Ability to connect data insights to business and fan outcomes, not just metrics
- Comfort working with imperfect or evolving data and making practical recommendations
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, including presenting insights to non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced experience working with Microsoft Excel
- Knowledge of social media and digital data a plus
- Detail oriented data background and exemplary analytical skills
- Curiosity, critical thinking, and bias toward action
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- High attention to detail, design, and innovation
- Passion for data and eagerness to learn new analytics tools and languages
- Experience using R or Python for advanced analysis, experimentation, or modeling
Benefits
- Medical
- Short-term disability
- Mental health coaching/therapy
- Sick time
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