Staff Marketing Analyst

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$164K/yr – $205K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end performance analytics across all channels and lead the measurement strategy, establishing frameworks and dashboards that guide executive decisions and long-term growth.

  • Define and advance MMM, MTA, attribution, and incrementality analyses
  • Build a trusted marketing analytics ecosystem with scalable data foundations and clear KPIs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with Marketing leadership to architect budget allocation, channel mix, and long-term strategy, taking full ownership of the data-driven narrative.
  • Own the end-to-end performance analytics across all channels, serving as the subject matter expert who translates complex channel performance into clear, actionable growth strategies.
  • Serve as the definitive subject matter expert for measurement, establishing and evolving advanced frameworks for MMM, MTA, attribution, and incrementality analysis to solve the hardest problems in channel effectiveness.
  • Build and champion a high-trust marketing analytics ecosystem, creating actionable dashboards and KPIs that serve as the single source of truth for marketing performance, growth, and efficiency.
  • Drive the evolution of the marketing data foundation, ensuring pipelines, data models, and definitions are reliable, scalable, and built for complex, high-velocity decision-making in partnership with our Analytics Engineering team.
  • Act as a strategic thought partner and visible leader, influencing executive decision-making and modeling data-driven excellence for the entire organization.
  • Elevate the marketing team’s analytical capabilities by establishing rigorous standards and frameworks for experimentation, documentation, and data storytelling.

Requirements

  • You bring 8+ years of experience in marketing or growth analytics, with deep expertise in marketing analytics and a track record of influencing strategy at a senior level.
  • You have exceptional business acumen, are intellectually curious, and motivated to solve difficult marketing problems in a highly regulated space.
  • You have strong intuition and experience with assessing performance and opportunities across Paid, Lifecycle, Direct Mail, and Partnership channels, and understand how these channels work together to drive growth.
  • You are highly fluent in marketing measurement, including attribution methodologies, incrementality testing, funnel analysis, and ROI modeling.
  • You have strong technical skills in SQL and experience using Python or R to perform advanced analysis, build models, or support experimentation.
  • You care deeply about data quality and have experience improving data reliability, definitions, and analytics infrastructure.
  • You excel at translating complex analyses into clear, actionable insights and are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders.
  • You are passionate about enabling others - whether through building intuitive dashboards, improving documentation, or training business partners to self-serve analytics.

Preferred

  • Experience working in the financial services industry
  • Experience partnering with senior marketing leaders on annual planning, forecasting, and long-term strategy.
  • Experience working closely with data platform teams to improve marketing data models and tracking.
  • Familiarity with martech platforms and tools (ESPs, CDPs, etc.) and their data ecosystems.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
  • Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
  • Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
  • Robust tuition reimbursement program
  • $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
  • Competitive days of annual PTO
  • Competitive parental leave
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Oakland, California, USA
364 employees (36 in marketing)
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
532.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$970.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.4%
Direct
58.8%
Referral
5%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~364

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$316.3M
Last Raise
$20M
Series C, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2017
    Series C • $20M
  • Nov 2015
    Debt Financing • $200M
  • Nov 2015
    Series B • $75M

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