Open Position for TECHNICAL ANALYST
Location: Baltimore, MD

Smart, driven, but not too serious?

Advertising.com is one of the most successful companies in online advertising. Why? Our people, hands-down the No.1 reason. People that work here are exceptionally bright and committed, yet we maintain a laid-back culture and entrepreneurial spirit - with the big-league benefits that come with being a part of the Time Warner and AOL family.

The Technical Analyst for Business Analysis focuses on gaining knowledge from our data to drive business decisions and enhance the optimal management of advertising campaigns as they are deployed in our network. The role includes: leveraging data to understand issues and opportunities in our business, implementing solutions, and assisting in the deployment of the associated tools and algorithms in the business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
 Understand, diagnose and resolve fundamental analytically based scheduling/optimization issues
 Implement solutions, tools and algorithm enhancements to address issues to meet evolving business needs
 Complete data analyses to provide learning and insight into opportunities in complex web networks
 Assist team in identifying opportunities, challenges and needs based on data and knowledge to enhance the business
 Review and analyze data to draw conclusions about performance in a complex environment with minimum supervision
 Assist team in summarizing and communicating findings at various levels for a range of audiences

Skills:
 Diagnostic/problem solving: ability to execute technical problem identification and resolution steps to identify root cause and resolve issue
 Data analysis: Fundamental data analysis skills including application of analytical techniques including descriptive statistics, graphical analysis, mathematical modeling and hypothesis testing (fundamental to intermediate SAS, SQL, R or related analysis toolset)
 Data access: data handling and database skills to enable gaining access to, aggregating and manipulating data (fundamental to intermediate SAS, SQL, or related data skill set)
 Application: Ability to apply quantitative analysis techniques to practical business problems from definition to approach to analysis to communication of results (project/business experience a plus)
 Implementation: fundamental coding skills enabling building of small scripts and applications to implement enhancements and solutions (UNIX shell, SQL, SAS, C++, Java, Perl other related development skills)
 Communication: excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical individuals
 Execution: ability to manage own time, execute on technical and non-technical project tasks and contribute to project teams

Education/Experience:
 Bachelor’s in Statistics/Applied Math/Computer Science/Systems Engineering or related field required
 MS - Statistics, Applied Math or related field desired
 0-3 years experience or relevant combination of education and experience.

About Us:
Advertising.com is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.

If interested, please contact Carrie Mally at cmally@advertising.com