Use numbers to drive strategy as the Insights Manager for a profitable, fast-growing startup

About us:

• Shop It To Me is the #1 online personal shopping service. We recommend 2+ billion products to 3+ million active subscribers every month. We are profitable and growing FAST – we tripled in size in 2009.
• Here’s how it works: You tell us your favorite brands (Prada, Nike, 600+ others) and preferences (size, price). Then we scour the internet every day and let you know when things you want go on sale.
• We make money whenever people buy something. Our service has been called "addictive" and "dangerous."
• Everyone loves a sale – join us and help our millions of adoring fans access the products they crave.

About the Job:

• Join a fast growing, data-driven team as an impact player who applies math and statistics to drive business results.
• We believe in numbers.  They are core to our DNA.  We see ourselves as a data company - and everyone is already bought in.
• You will be our first full time insights hire and will report to our CEO. Your work will inform day to day decisions and drive company strategy.
• We are not looking for a report runner, we are looking for a detective and a data junkie – someone who loves to dive deep and get to the root of problems, craft solutions and make a HUGE impact on the business as a whole.
• You are already a SQL crackerjack and yearn to learn more, you are not an excel jock who preaches pivot tables as state of the art.

Responsibilities:

• Help determine what to analyze and how to analyze it: Attack the data, design / test your own hypothesis and creatively “peel the onion” to get to answers.
• Perform soup-to-nuts analysis: extracting the data with SQL; building models (regression, t-test, correlation); and selecting your own analysis  | presentation tools (ActiveScaffold, Strata, R, Ganglia)
• Build a repertoire of reports & dashboards that will be used to manage the business day to day.
• Communicate! This is not a job working in a vacuum, you will work closely with product management, business development and software engineers to investigate and influence what happens next.

Requirements:

• Strong skills in statistical analysis, including regression analysis, statistical correlations, and population hypothesis tests.
• Intellectually curious. Proactive. Flexible. Affable.
• Previous experience working as a data analyst, analytics manager, statistician, researcher, quantitative marketer, modeler or any other role where you were asked to analyze voluminous data sets to find insights.
• You count in terms of Q-squared, figure out MySQL outer joins in the shower, and dream of playing around with hundreds of millions of rows of data.

Bonus Points:

• Experience working in quantitative market research, business/product analysis and/or data mining.
• You’ve worked in a fast moving, rapidly changing environment (i.e. a startup or a high growth business) where ad hoc analysis is common and acted on quickly.
• Experience establishing operational metrics and designing dashboards & tools.
• Some programming experience, Ruby and/or Java would be great.
• A strong academic foundation in a quantitative field (statistics, math, engineering, computer science, economics), preferably at the graduate level (Masters, PHD)

Perks:

• Competitive salary, medical, dental, vision, wide selection of free food & drink and a piece of the action (aka stock options)
• Sweet rig of your choosing, phat monitors, Aeron chairs, big windows, high ceilings, brick walls
• Your work will be appreciated by millions of adoring fans.

How To Apply:

• Please include a cover letter and discuss how you’ve applied math and statistics to drive business results.
• You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. We will not sponsor visas, nor will we hire consultants through sub-contractors that hold your visa. Oh yeah - and we don't work *any* third party recruiters.

Position is located in San Francisco, CA