Information Technology - Jr. Data Insights Analyst

Job Description

Who We Are

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.

The Role

Passionate about entertainment, brands, music, sports, and analytics? Have a natural aptitude toward storytelling through data? Join our growing data team as we provide advanced data solutions and strategic analysis to enhance the creation of opportunity for world-class clients across Film, TV, Music, Sports, Digital Media, and beyond.

CAA has an immediate opening for a Jr. Data Analyst on our Data Insights team. In this role you will be a member of a highly motivated and collaborative team responsible for providing actionable insights to business unit stakeholders (Agents and Executives, and client management teams) using cutting-edge data and analytical tools.

Your role is to provide data that is accurate, congruent, contextualized, and actionable, and ensure information is easily available to users for direct consumption. In collaboration with the team, you will help educate and train internal stakeholders to explore and understand information in new ways, generating compelling insights that inform and support effective decision making and client servicing. It will be essential, and a success criterion, that you build an understanding of the business at a level of detail that enables you to identify and address critical issues and opportunities.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate closely with senior analysts on the team to derive strategic and actionable insights from various sources to garner audience and marketplace intelligence on clients across all departments (Film, TV, Music, Sports, Brands, Consumer Products, etc.).
2. Participate in translating findings into digestible and visually intuitive outputs through compelling analysis and storytelling to Agents, Executives, and client teams.
3. Assist with data vendor relationships to respond to the changing information needs of the business.
4. Leverage proprietary & third-party analytics tools to demonstrate the popularity, value, and impact of our client’s work and/or their related businesses.
5. Provide analyses on brand, category, and consumer trends to uncover opportunities in support of CAA’s brand and brand-building groups.
6. Act as a liaison between data teams and business stakeholders (CAA Agents and Executives) to gather and organize requirements for the design of optimal data solutions and internal platforms.
7. In coordination with the data group, participate in workstream planning processes including gathering requirements, testing, delivery, and training of new analytics features.
8. Balance numerous projects across different departments and sustain open communication with the team/stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met.
9. Assist with training and adoption of CAA’s internal analytics platforms, including conducting company-wide, departmental, and one-on-one training sessions; maintaining documentation and training guides; and championing CAA’s data products.
10. Support or own ad-hoc research and analytics projects as needed.
11. Collaborate effectively across all areas of the Data Team (Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Management, Data Engineering, etc.).

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or specialized training/certification in related field preferred.
2. Two or more years of experience as an Analyst or similar role at a consumer brand, market research agency, ad agency, or related company preferred.
3. Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills; highly collaborative and inclusive team player.
4. Experience mining and analyzing data from social listening, digital analytics, and consumer/market research tools (e.g., Meltwater, NetBase, Helixa, Nielsen, MRI/Simmons, Google Analytics, E-Poll, etc.).
5. Avid user and fluency with social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook).
6. Strong passion for and knowledge of cultural and industry trends that affect brands and consumers.
7. Understanding of the digital & creator landscape including consumer & platform trends, audience measurement & metrics, monetization strategies, etc.
8. Highly detail-oriented and well-organized; able to work in a fast-paced environment and can easily adapt to change.
9. Experience working in Microsoft Excel and can create beautiful client-facing PowerPoint presentations.
10. Experience working with data to solve business problems, i.e., generate and communicate actionable insights to business users.
11. Committed to the data education of stakeholders, sharing of information, and empowerment through data.
12. Experience with modern Data Visualization tools (e.g., Power Bl, Tableau, Qlik) preferred.

Compensation

Location

This role will be based in our Los Angeles, CA office; hybrid.

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Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.