Lead Analyst, Insights & Paid Media

USA (On-site)

$136K/yr – $273K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the measurement and insights for paid media across channels, including attribution and incrementality, drive reporting, dashboards, and experiments, and advance AI-enabled bidding and budget optimization as part of the paid media strategy.

  • Own reporting and optimization across paid channels
  • Design dashboards, run experiments, and translate data into actionable recommendations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • What You'll Do We are seeking a Laad Analyst, Insights & Paid Media to help build, manage, and scale the measurement and insight capabilities that power our paid media investment.
  • This role owns performance analysis across paid channels and turns spend and campaign data into clear, actionable insight that improves customer acquisition, conversion, efficiency, and return on investment.
  • This role spans both channel-level performance, including paid search, paid social, and display optimization and spend efficiency, and full-funnel media analysis, including media mix, attribution, and incrementality.
  • The person in this role will ensure paid media decisions are grounded in trustworthy data and will translate that data into recommendations that improve how and where we invest.
  • This person will also help advance the AI transformation of the marketing group by identifying and operationalizing AI-enabled use cases that improve bidding and budget optimization, audience targeting, creative testing, and automated insight generation.
  • The ideal candidate combines strong analytical rigor, performance-marketing fluency, and hands-on execution skills. They bring a test-and-learn mindset, technical fluency with media platforms and analytics tooling, and curiosity about how AI can make media investment smarter and more efficient.
  • Paid Media Performance and Optimization - Own reporting and analysis across paid channels, including paid search, paid social, display, video, and programmatic, providing a holistic view of how channels perform in tandem.
  • Analyze performance metrics such as CTR, CPC, CPA, conversion rate, ROAS, and pacing to diagnose root causes of trends and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Provide optimization recommendations and actionable insights to channel leads based on performance data, including budget allocation and bid-strategy guidance.
  • Deliver performance projections and budget recommendations at multiple levels, including account, market, campaign, channel, and product line.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, digital marketing analytics, marketing analytics, or related roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience analyzing and optimizing paid media campaigns across channels such as paid search, paid social, display, video, or programmatic.
  • Advanced knowledge of media platforms such as Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta/Facebook Business Manager, LinkedIn, and DSPs.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to assess performance, diagnose issues, and make recommendations.
  • Proficiency with analytics and visualization tools such as Google Analytics, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, and advanced Excel.
  • Strong understanding of media metrics and measurement concepts, including CPA, ROAS, attribution, incrementality, sample size, and statistical significance.
  • Ability to translate business questions into testable hypotheses, structured analyses, and actionable insights.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex performance data clearly to non-technical and senior stakeholders.

Preferred

  • Experience in B2B SaaS, technology, fintech, compliance, data, or enterprise software.
  • Experience supporting both digital-led and sales-assisted go-to-market motions.
  • Familiarity with SQL, Python, or R for data extraction and analysis.
  • Experience with media mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, or incrementality testing.
  • Experience using AI-enabled media tools, automated bidding, or predictive audience and decisioning capabilities.
  • Relevant certifications such as Google Ads, Google Analytics, or Meta Blueprint.
  • Experience creating measurement playbooks, testing frameworks, documentation standards, or training materials.

Benefits

  • Total Rewards
  • Health & Wellness
  • Inclusive culture and diversity
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Avalara is the agentic tax and compliance leader. For more than two decades, Avalara has developed one of the most expansive libraries of tax content and integrations in the industry, supporting over 43,000 businesses and government entities across more than 75 countries. The company's purpose-built AI agents automate end-to-end compliance processes with greater precision, from tax calculations and return filings to exemption certificate management and beyond. For more information, visit Avalara.com.

Founded in 2004
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Lead Analyst, Insights & Paid Media

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