About the Role:

Are you an experienced business-focused analyst and want to work at one of Seattle’s most successful startups? OfferUp is currently seeking an experienced analyst to join the BizOps team and support data-driven decision making and influence product strategy across the company.

In this role, your proven business acumen and analytical mindset will drive product and company strategy. You will lead complex analyses and synthesize large data sets into meaningful and actionable insights that you will present to senior executives and product teams. We are looking for an excellent critical thinker with strong quantitative skills. Intellectual curiosity, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to roll up one’s sleeves are essential for this role. 

Team Charter: The Business Operations team (BizOps) partners with OfferUp's executive team and cross-functional leaders to drive key strategic initiatives, address critical business challenges, and develop and execute strategies accelerating growth opportunities for OfferUp.

Here’s more of what you will get to do:

• Conduct in-depth analysis of our various businesses and dive deep into key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities
• Deliver strategic projects for leadership that provide high impact insights for key initiatives
• Communicate key data and findings to audiences of all levels
• Partner with the product teams to define success criteria of new product features and measure feature performance against those criteria
• Measure and analyze experiments
• Create dashboards to support self-service insights for new business initiatives and features

You’ll thrive in this role if you have: (All OfferUp employees are required to receive full Covid-19 vaccinations, per CDC guidelines. OfferUp will review accommodation requests due to a medical reason, or because of a sincerely held religious belief.)

• 3 - 5 years of work experience in a business planning or strategy related role with an emphasis on quantitative skills
• Insane business curiosity. Skilled at breaking down complex business or product questions from all possible angles to garner key insights. You enjoy using data to answer challenging questions that inform key business decisions
• Exceptional analytical skills with high business acumen. Strong familiarity with leveraging data to address challenging business questions. Ability to think comprehensively with high attention to detail. You have experience with cohort analysis, modeling, data visualization tools, excel, and SQL
• Autonomous problem solver. You can independently lead complex, cross-functional, and highly visible projects. You inspire trust from your business partners
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to multitask and juggle multiple projects with shifting priorities. You are scrappy and resourceful; you know how to do more with less
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can synthesize complex analytic results, present actionable findings in compelling visual formats, and communicate them effectively to a broad audience

Helpful, but not required 

• BA/BS degree in Economics, Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field strongly preferred
• Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy, or an operational or growth role within a technology company