BI Developer
- Full-time
Company Description
Are you ready to re-invent digital marketing? At Performics, we’re accelerating the great missions of our clients—brands like Allstate, Toyota, and Kohl’s—in the ever-evolving world of search engine marketing, display media, social media and affiliate marketing.
If you’re ready to move at the speed of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, we’d love to meet you. We’ll give you the tools, support, and freedom to lead, innovate and grow. In fact, Advertising Age, Crain's and Tribune have named Performics a "Best Place to Work," and Forrester Research dubbed us one of 2012's "Top Digital Agencies." We hire exceptional people for our global headquarters in Chicago and U.S. locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco. Our international presence spans 31 markets (and growing) including regional hubs in London and Singapore.
Job Description
Overview:
Performics is seeking to fill a Business Intelligence Developer on our Analytics & Technology. We seek individuals who have a passion for using data visualization tools to turn complex data sets into actionable insights. The BI Developer plays a critical role in the agency, partnering with account leads and clients across the agency. He/she will primarily be responsible for the design, build, testing, deployment, and support of complex reporting solutions.
As part of the Analytics & Technology team at Performics, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a collaborative team that is responsible for driving client performance by combining data driven insights and strategic thinking to client business and marketing challenges.
Role Objectives:
Consult with internal / external clients on business needs and recommend strategic and scalable solutions
Design, develop and deploy actionable visualizations with strong emphasis on UI and UX design
Act as BI subject matter expert, anticipate user needs, monitor data quality and completeness of data
Train and support end users on BI solution. Partner with cross functional teams on preparing demos for client pitches
Collaborate across the organization to identify, develop and manage best practices
Drive operational efficiency & scalability of solutions through standardization of data metrics, KPIs and processes
Handle multiple clients simultaneously and be willing to help other teams / share knowledge across the organization
Skills:
Ability to clarify objectives, design analysis to answer the business question, and package into easy-to-understand actionable recommendations
Ability to breakdown complex client reports and reconstruct visualizations in a data visualization tool
Expertise in data analyzing / mining and gleaning insights from complex data sets
Strong presentation skills with particular emphasis on UI / UX design
Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and listening) and analytical skill set
Strong project management, organizational skills & attention to detail – able to manage and prioritize multiple projects and people in the organization simultaneously
Able to work independently with large cross-functional teams
Strategic thinker, flexible problem solver, and great listener
Ability to scope technical requirements for delivering measurement/analytics plans
Assess business requirements and identify measures, approaches, and methodologies for measuring success against objective
Ability to identify required data and data capture mechanisms (e.g., registration forms, transactional data, 3rd party data, website traffic data, online survey data, etc.)
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences / Information Technology / MIS / Mathematics, or its equivalent
Minimum 2 - 3 years experience creating dashboards/visualizations, report design, development & testing
Strong expertise with data visualizations tools like Tableau, Qlikview or similar
Strong in SQL, data mining, analytics
Strong Excel & VBA programming
UI, UX design, consulting and project management experience is a huge plus
Digital agency experience preferred
Passionate about the future of marketing analytics and advertising, and a desire to help shape it
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.