Senior Data Analyst

We imagine the new. Inspire the next. And use the power of our creativity to help build up those around us. 

At Allison, we provide a limitless environment where you can build, create, and grow. Our openly collaborative and highly supportive culture is free from bureaucracy and red tape. With over 1,000 innovators from diverse backgrounds, we break new ground for world-class clients across 50 global markets and dozens of industries. We believe in creating a space where everyone can freely express their opinions, share their ideas and dreams for the future, and be themselves. 

We foster an inclusive culture that attracts builders from all backgrounds who can envision new solutions and create outcomes that move our clients' businesses forward, while helping everyone on the team learn and grow together. Our shared ideal of the builder's mindset is limitless and available to everyone, and we push the boundaries to create new and innovative solutions for our clients and ourselves. 

We create lasting impact and relationships, and our culture fosters meaningful connections and friendships that last beyond the workplace. If you're ready to join a team that pushes you to be your best, supports you every step of the way, and celebrates your successes, welcome to the Allison family. 

Our Senior Data Analysts are storytellers at heart that use insights measure performance, effectiveness, and create digestible recommendations that drive favorable client and business outcomes.  They are critical thinkers and highly valuable contributors on the project delivery team.  Our senior data analyst work across multiple project work streams, conducting analyses across multiple clients and industry sectors enabling you to leverage learnings from adjacent industries to your advantage. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will manage and analyze complex datasets, create dashboards and visualizations, and provide actionable insights to support decision-making. You will collaborate closely with leadership and external partners to measure program effectiveness and optimize initiatives. This position allows for growth in research, reporting, and analytics responsibilities while contributing to a team dedicated to equity, inclusion, and reflective leadership. Ideal candidates are highly analytical, comfortable in a fast-paced remote environment, and passionate about using data to inform impactful work.

Role Objectives

• Perform project specific analyses for each assigned client program using Allison’s robust suite of analytical tools.
• Deliver analysis to the Project Manager with clear insight narratives, answer questions, and facilitate dialogue to ensure insights delivered are valuable to client’s core objective.
• Leverage Allison’s latest capabilities and analytics to generate critical insights and intelligence.
• Build and maintain a trusted relationship with key client contacts, account managers, and internal stakeholders,
• Communicate often and effectively while continuously working towards solutions.
• Be a partner of Product Team to drive efficiency in your work and speed to insight.
• Collaborate cross functionally to test new approaches with unstructured data and leverage these advanced tools to transform data.
• Identify and foster new ways for Allison to support strategic customer initiatives.
• Identify potential service opportunities within our client base and beyond
• Be a strategic thinker who is always looking to connect data points to help solve client needs

• Build and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and reports to support programmatic efforts and partner initiatives
• Frame questions, pull/clean data, run analyses, and translate findings into clear narratives and recommendations
• Support the project manager with client delivery as a subject matter expert
• Support measurement, learning, and evaluation frameworks by tracking key metrics and reporting on program impact
• Analyze large project specific datasets to ensure accuracy, integrity, and usability
• Turn complex results into digestible briefs, slides, and live readouts tailored to leadership and external partners.
• Provide data support for research projects and contribute to public-facing communications
• Serve as a thought partner in strategic planning and long-term projects, performing other duties as needed

Core Responsibilities

• Reporting Production (65–70%)
• Build and maintain weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboards and reports.
• Automate data pulls, QA inputs/outputs, and manage versioning.
• Create clear visuals and annotate with takeaways, anomalies, and trends.
• Analysis & Insight Generation
• Dig into drivers, cohort behaviors, channels, funnels, and experiments.
• Develop concise narratives: “what happened, why it happened, what to do.”
• Flag outliers early; propose hypotheses and follow-up analyses.
• Data Operations
• Define metrics, data dictionaries, and calculation logic.
• Ensure data quality (validation tests, reconciliation checks).
• Collaboration
• Support the Project Manager with ad-hoc analyses for readouts.

Align on priorities and timelines; estimate effort and feasibility

• 5+ years of experience in market research, consumer insights, data analytics, strategic consulting or similarly analytical roles
• 4+ years of experience with media measurement, media monitoring, or text based analytics
• Advanced knowledge of key data metrics from volume, velocity, emotion, reputation, and sentiment
• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Data Analysis, MIS, Business, or a related field is preferred
• Advanced knowledge of text analytics and social listening tools
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, and willing to learn new tools quickly
• The power to take initiative, communicate across teams, and solve problems creatively, both in teams and individually
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and concise manner.
• Must have exceptional attention to detail and thrives in a fast-paced environment with quick turnarounds.
• Familiarity with accessing and extracting data from various repositories from: Amazon, S3, Google BigQuery, or SQL-based transforms
• Experience with data analytics visualization tools such as: Amazon Quicksight, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.

• Hybrid work environment with home and office schedule (2+ days in office per week) and work from anywhere weeks 

• Comprehensive health benefits (healthcare, vision, dental, pet, home, and auto insurance) 

• Generous time off policies (unlimited paid time off, wellness days, national holidays, summer Fridays) 

• Four-week sabbatical every five years of employment 

• Exceptional parental leave benefits 

• Global mentorship and networking programs 

• Monthly cell phone reimbursement 

• 401k savings and employee stock purchase plan 

• Volunteer hours (20 hours annually) for designated non-profit partner and personal choice 

• Globally driven DEI initiatives (Employee Advocacy Groups, DEI committee) 

• Career growth opportunities, such as Allison University (multi-day customized trainings for each level) 

Our founding vision was to create a positive and entrepreneurial environment where talented people thrive – and creativity-killing bureaucracy… doesn’t. 

We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for our employees. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and are committed to building an agency where everyone is welcome, and every voice is heard. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.