Analytics Engineer, Zoro
Title: Analytics Engineer
Reports to: Director, Data Engineering
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL or Chicago, IL
Company Summary:
Zoro.com is an eCommerce company that sells business supplies, equipment, and tools—but we’re much more than just a website. We’re a team of people who win and lose together (we prefer winning!). Since 2011, Zoro has been working hard to make it easy for our customers to purchase everything they need to make their businesses go. Zoro currently offers 3 million products, fast and free shipping, no-hassle returns, and exceptional customer service. We’ve grown quickly in a short time, recently surpassing 400 team members and reaching annual revenue of over $500 million. Add to that our award-winning culture—we were named a Great Place to Work for 2019-20, among other accolades—and we think Zoro is a pretty amazing place to work and grow.
Primary Function:
As Analytics Engineer at Zoro, you are responsible for defining and implementing best-in-class website tagging and tracking. You will be responsible for working with analytics and marketing teams to define technical elements of tagging and tracking solutions, working with a team of software engineers to manage implementation and ensure optimal data capture for downstream data platforms, analytics and decision engines. You will also have the opportunity to help build testing and optimization strategies for business-critical part of our ecommerce platform.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with key IT and business stakeholders to define, implement and manage tagging and tracking solutions in Google Analytics
- Work with software engineers to write custom tagging and analytics solutions using JavaScript
- Deploy and test code in GA360 platform
- Perform quality audits and regression test data tags with each software release and site updates
- Organize, track and surface data trends
- Technical expertise to deep dive into Google Analytics and solve complex issues
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years experience in a similar role
- Extensive knowledge of Google Analytics
- Significant expertise implementing tags using GTM (Google Tag Manager)
- Advanced coding skills in JavaScript
- In-depth understanding of content analytics tools
- Experience analyzing data from Google Analytics
- Superior communication, collaboration and business-technical interaction skills
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
- Strong SQL skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in ecommerce / online retail sales
- Experience using google cloud platform for data management and aggregation
- Familiar with agile methodologies and practices
- Prior experience using QA tracking tools and version control
Final note:
We share a commitment to our Zoro values – Win & Lose Together (We prefer winning!), Take Ownership, We Are Transparent, and Aspire to be Customer-Obsessed. Everything we do at Zoro is centered around delighting our customers. It's a natural extension of our company culture and how we care for each other. We believe when we act in ways that are consistent with these values, we can solve any technical challenge that lies ahead of us. As a Zoro employee, you can expect to work with smart, energetic people, learn something every day, and be valued for your perspective.
Zoro is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.