Data Product Analyst

Company and data products

Role overview

Duties

• Analyze data files to measure database accuracy, completeness, and coverage.
• Find missing fields, outdated records, errors, coverage gaps, and potential new attributes customers would value.
• Plan and prioritize database improvements and additions and maintain an implementation roadmap.
• Evaluate potential data sources and recommend which to add, how to integrate them, and their expected contribution.
• Set data standards, field definitions, and quality benchmarks and monitor progress.
• Partner with IT specialists on data projects from specification through testing and release.
• Gather customer and internal-team input about data use and improvement opportunities.
• Use factual evidence to make decisions and present clear recommendations to management.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the business and/or consumer data industry.
• Experience improving, maintaining, or expanding a database or data product, not only reporting on one.
• Understanding of postal addressing rules.
• In-depth knowledge of Excel and MySQL.
• Understanding of practical statistics for evaluating data quality, coverage, and accuracy.
• Attention to detail; ability to identify trends, determine data validity, and turn findings into practical action.
• Two-year college degree required; four-year degree preferred.

Additional experience and attributes

• Experience with data compilation, sourcing, matching, deduplication, or data hygiene processes such as NCOA or CASS is a plus.
• Ability to learn quickly is critical.
• The role may involve customer interaction and requires professional representation of the company.

Application request

• Include a brief example of a dataset you improved or expanded, describing the issue, the changes made, and the result.