Growth Analyst

ABOUT PLACER:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, Placer has reached $100 million in ARR (a “Centaur”) in 2024 within 6 years of launching the Placer platform. We crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” in 2022.

Placer's A.I. based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, Placer has accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.

Our platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. Placer has grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more.

Named one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, Placer.AI is proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture. Is this the type of place that would excite you? If so, we’d love to talk to you! 

SUMMARY:

As Growth Analyst, you will create and operationalize business strategy and identify areas for future growth. You will drive projects forward, from problem and hypothesis development through analysis to recommendation, while driving cross-functional alignment to ensure smooth implementation by different stakeholders, including the Sales, Strategy, Operations, and Marketing teams.The ideal candidate is highly analytical and proactive, very communicative, and willing to get into operational details with a results-driven approach.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Growth Team develops and operationalizes a clear strategy for defining, sizing, and qualifying Placer’s markets. The team provides guidance on which verticals to prioritize, and how to maximize conversion across different stages of the pipeline. 

The main sets of projects you will work on include:

• Data analysis: Develop & analyze KPIs, track sales pipeline performance, and optimize funnel conversion
• TAM triangulation: Scrape & analyze databases to size & qualify our total addressable market in each vertical
• Headcount planning & territory management: Build a headcount forecast of the number of salespeople needed by vertical and create territories for the team
• Project management: collaborating cross-functionally with multiple teams, including the designing & launching of growth experiments across verticals
• Ad hoc analyses: Identify hotspots in the business that require intervention and proactively investigate, strategize, and implement solutions with the relevant leaders

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree, in Economics, Business, Engineering, or a similar quantitative business degree with strong academic achievement
• At least two years of relevant experience in strategy, finance, or business operations functions; experience at an investment bank or management consulting firm a bonus
• Truly outstanding problem solving and analytical skills; demonstrated ability to structure complex and ambiguous problems, turn both quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights with solutions
• Expert knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides
• Experience working with SQL
• Excellent presentation skills, with strong attention to detail and a track record of designing presentations for senior leadership to help drive cross-functional alignment
• Strong project management, execution, and change management skills, with experience driving cross-functional projects over the finish line in tight timelines
• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership; capable of seeking information, solving complex problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations
• Growth mindset with a strong appetite for professional development

ADVANTAGES:

• Experience working with go-to-market and/or sales teams
• Ability to build internal & executive-facing dashboards measuring KPIs with Looker or Tableau
• Familiarity with ETL tools such as Fivetran
• Experience working with online data warehouses such as BigQuery
• Experience building LLM-Based products

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI? 

• This contractor position will offer an hourly rate between $25 - $26 Hourly rate may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related skills, professional experience, education and licenses (if applicable), work location, and compensation market data.

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER

• Placer.ai in a nutshell
• Placer.ai's recent $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
• Placer.ai's data
• Placer.ai in the news
• COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.