Seattle Area - Web Business Analyst

CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE!!! The Opportunity : How would you like to play with the operational metrics results of a large and commercially successful social networking site? Can you define business strategies clearly, from operational data? Do you insist on ranking qualitative objectives? Can you quantify success criteria, and then prepare meaningful presentations to impress management with your business acumen? Classmates.com seeks a skillful, flexible & intelligent web business analyst.   Responsibilities: Handle all manner of large commercial website metrics, challenges and opportunities, with changes occurring daily. Drive the analysis of our key transactional metrics to help grow our business. Define and monitor overall business unit’s health. Evolve forecast model and metrics over time.   The Job Requirements: · Familiar with a variety of financial forecasting concepts, practices, and procedures · Highly skilled in using tools such as Excel and Access/SQL to extract/analyze data. Ability to organize and present findings in a clear format for business owners and executives. Solid knowledge of online testing techniques and statistical techniques Experience using Web Analytics and Business Intelligence tools like Omniture and Microstrategy preferred. · BA/BS in Finance, Mathematics, or Marketing.   The Job Requirements: Analyze and evaluate performance data including advertising, direct marketing, web analytics, and promotional campaigns. Define and monitor overall business unit’s health. Define and analyze operating results and improve member acquisition, conversion and retention processes. Evolve business model and metrics over time. Distill and share learnings across the Classmates organization.     Qualifications: Strong data orientation: Excel power user, modeling, pivot tables, etc. You think RPN is great and own an HP12C. Better still, you have an HP12C emulator on your laptop. Be statistically improvisational. Know SPSS and SAS. Know an SD from a CI and an SE from an SD. Have the Data Analysis Toolkit enabled on your copy of Excel. Presentation expertise, via whiteboard or PowerPoint. Be able to fine-tune the same presentation for an audience of analysts, then an audience of executives. Know when you’ve lost them and need to go back. An MBA—maybe. It depends on how you approached it and what you got out of it. Intellectual curiosity is the single most criteria that doesn’t come from the classroom, but from yourself.     Be prepared for: Learning on the fly. You know that part in The Matrix where Trinity downloads how to ride a motorcycle? That’s kind of what we’re talking about. Organizational flexibility. It’s a big company. Can you learn how it works, both formally and informally? Work/life balance. We aren’t a startup. We work diligently and persistently but not desperately. You can love the Internet and have a family.   Who are we? Classmates.com is a profitable website that’s been evolving since 1995. Once a directory for high schools, now a growing social networking site, we’ve not only increased our revenue, we’ve also proven to be one of the few websites who’s stood the test of time. Why? Because we provide value to our users by offering connections to people who matter. And we’re poised to take the lead in the social media revolution with a team of passionate, innovative thinkers. We’re a brand in transition—positioned to be a powerhouse for years to come.   Who are you? You would rather make an impact than be a cog in the corporate wheel. You thirst for the uphill climb and staking a flag on top of that hill for all to see. You can tap into a wealth of opportunities bubbling just below the surface. You can see beyond buzz and offer real value to consumers. You fit in well with other whip-smart and engaged professionals. You value a hard-working and fun-loving culture. You roll up your sleeves when you hear the word “underdog.” You do your job with unabashed professionalism. You want to help redefine the category of social media networking. You have impeccable integrity. You care.   Why should we connect? Classmates is a great place to work. We’ll give you some reasons why:   Everyone’s joined a social networking site. Only cool people work for one. We love our employees and treat them well. People who connect people to people are good people. There’s no time to get bored. Creativity and innovation are part of our daily routine. We’re changing the world, one member at a time.   Location & Contact: Position is located at Classmates’ corporate headquarters in Renton, Washington .     Classmates is an Equal Opportunity Employer. p>