JELLYVISION NEEDS A BUSINESS ANALYST

We here at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX, an interactive employee communications platform that happens to share some DNA (and a sense of humor) with the smash-hit trivia video game YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, created by Jellyvision's founder. ALEX makes navigating tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits or improving your financial wellness—easier, faster, and more helpful, not to mention entertaining. The success of the ALEX platform has exceeded our wildest dreams, (except for the part right before we woke up where our mom was riding a giraffe), which is why we need talented folks like you to help us help ALEX take over the world…er…continue to grow and succeed.

THAT’S LOVELY, BUT WHAT’S THE JOB?

Jellyvision is looking to capitalize on the momentum that comes with disrupting an industry ripe for change by expanding they ways we enhance employer to employee communication and engagement—all while helping folks make better decisions. The Business Analyst will be critical to uncovering what’s next for Jellyvision and our ALEX SaaS products. This role will work closely with our product team to analyze new opportunities – the market, the pricing, the competition, etc. – to help with go/no-go decisions and new product development. The goal of the Business Analyst is to use all readily (and not-so-readily) available data and intel to build recommendations and reports that will be used to make our company (and customers) smarter. We’re ideally looking for someone with 2-4 years of experience in market or product research.

SOUNDS INTERESTING. SO WHAT WOULD I BE DOING IN THIS ROLE?

As a Business Analyst, you will conduct the research for new product opportunities (using a variety of primary and secondary research tactics) and make recommendations about viability. Specifically, you will:

• Compile ecosystem understanding for products – competitors, partner players, and everything in between.
• Assist in the formulation of product P&Ls, with research backed suggestions for pricing strategies.
• Keep a constant pulse on what’s happening with our customers, our partners, and our competitors.
• Become an expert in the HR space and facilitate our company’s understanding of emerging trends.
• Be a major player in our Customer Voice initiative, keeping the feedback loop between our customers and Jellyvision stakeholders alive and thriving.
• Help catalog and maintain the data and findings from your research.

SO, WHAT KIND OF SKILLS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

Jellyvision’s Business Analyst must:

• Be able to write and talk good. Seriously, your written and oral communication skills should be really excellent. You’ll be a major information hub and will be interfacing with most of our internal staff and perhaps even some of our customers. Your ability to summarize and be succinct is key. All the data and intel in the world is useless if you can’t make people understand it.
• Be a Carmen Sandiego-level gumshoe. The qualitative and quantitative data we need isn’t always going to be a Google search away. Sometimes it will need to be coaxed and teased out of its hiding place. That may mean making phone calls, sifting through earnings reports, listening in on webinars, etc. You’ll need to be comfortable experimenting with all methods of insight discovery.
• Like getting math-y. We need someone who can take findings and translate them from the “what” to the “so what”, and that often means crunching numbers, making projections and forecasts, and putting some dollars to the data. If you liked finance (or maybe just Sudoku) at one time in your life, you’re on the right track.
• Organize like you’re Martha Stewart. It’s a good thing. You’ll be working on several projects at once, so you’ll need great scheduling and workload planning skills to keep all your balls in the air.
• Keep it together under the gun. You’ll need to do high quality work and maintain your attention to detail under deadlines.
• Be able to get your geek on. This position is computer-intensive and you should be comfortable working with Excel and raw data. Our business lives online, so you’ll need to be familiar with the Web and its functionality as well.
• Leave your fancy pants at home. This role is super interesting and you’ll be working on all kinds of projects, but it’s also got some routine and everyday “work-work” to it. You’ve got to be an idea person, who can still get into the trenches.
• Have a sense of humor. (It just makes you more fun to work with.)

ANYTHING ELSE? Yes. We share a commitment to excellence and a desire to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere, so we only hire nice, bright, funny people who are willing to work hard.  Our credo is a simple one: be helpful. And we think we can be most helpful if our workforce is as diverse in thought, perspective, and culture as the people who use our products. We are looking to add amazing folks to our team who will bring diversity across many lines, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, sex, and country of origin.

ARE THERE ANY PERKS? Yes, we love perks.

• Competitive pay, 401(k) with matching, stock options and benefits. We pay 100% of the cost of premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for our employees (as long as you qualify for our tobacco-free discount; if you’re a tobacco user, your medical premiums will be higher than $0). We also cover a really nice chunk of the cost of premiums for spouse/dependent medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Casual dress and a flexible schedule. Come in a sweatshirt, jeans, whatever, like everyone else here.
• Creative work environment. We are lucky to work in a place that is full of intelligent, talented and innovative folks. Although most hours the place is deathly quiet (we're a focused bunch), this is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and general merriment, which makes a nice way to spend the day.
• Free food. Every week, we stock our kitchen with free healthy snack foods, and we have a catered lunch every other week to give people a reason to hang out and eat together.
• Easy transportation and lots of love for folks who bike to work. We’re really close to the North/Clybourn red line stop and the Halsted (#8) bus (right by the Apple Store and Mega Whole Foods too), and we have a transit FSA that allows you to dedicate pre-tax dollars to public transportation expenses. A number of our employees like to bike to work, so we also have bike storage, showers and lockers in the office. And for those without their own bike in the city, we offer free divvy memberships – complete with Jellyvision bike helmets you can borrow from the office.
• Did we mention our yoga class? We bring a pro instructor right to the office. Fully subsidized by Jellyvision and fully optional, btw.
• Oh! And we have a massage chair. Not just any massage chair, my friend. It’s the HumanTouch HT 5320 WholeBody™ Massage Chair. Feeling a little stiff? Sit down. Relax. Feel better? Good. Okay, back to work.

ALRIGHT! I’M READY. HOW DO I APPLY?

We look forward to hearing about you and what you do. Make sure your application includes:

• A cover letter that highlights three reasons you think you’d be great for the gig, focusing on how your past experience has prepared you for this kind of position. Writing is key to all we do, and we weigh cover letters heavily. We love a cover letter that really shows us your personality (check out our company bios to see the wide range of personalities we’ve already got in house), but don’t stress if you’re not a comedian. You don’t have to be funny. Just be yourself. We’re mostly interested in learning who you are, what you love to do, and why you’d love to do it here with us.
• Your resume
  

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Please know that every single application we receive is read by a real live human being. However that kind of thoughtful review takes time, so it may take us a little while to get back to you (but we will, we promise). In the meantime, NO FOLLOW UP PHONE CALLS OR EMAILS, PLEASE. It’s not that we don’t love hearing from you. It’s just that time spent responding to follow ups could be spent…well…reading your application. Please rest assured that if you received a confirmation from Recruiting Robot, we’ve got you’re application, and will get back to you really soon. We knew you’d understand.

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