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Business Analytics Analyst

Cargurus • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p>At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.</p> <p><strong>What we do</strong></p> <p>The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Role Overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CarGurus is seeking a Business Analytics Analyst to join the Business Analytics & Reporting team. This team is responsible for the analytical rigor behind reporting, forecasting, and financial modeling that enable day-to-day and strategic decisions. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious and an exceptional critical thinker; they can live in the data, understanding the logic and processes that generate it as well as detecting signals, diagnosing problems, proposing solutions, and predicting future behavior. They can then use their mastery to synthesize and convey important information to other parties and offer thoughtful ways in which things can be improved. </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Business Analytics Team has a wide remit at CarGurus. You’ll work with many departments, gaining a broad exposure to the operation of the business, and be asked to connect the dots between them. Your rich understanding, technical skills, and thought partnership will make you a highly sought-after contributor for a wide variety of stakeholders, including senior leaders. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With the assistance of AI tools, conduct exploratory data analysis across disparate data sources to understand the performance of the business and identify potential opportunities and/or risks.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Be an active contributor in discussions with decision-makers, using cognitive empathy to understand their vantage point and incentives before using this understanding to structure and frame downstream work and resulting findings.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use data to identify, validate, and uncover causal relationships of important business mechanisms.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Implement new metrics to evaluate business performance and/or experiments and build reports and dashboards to monitor and understand them.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Be a voice and advocate to use data to improve the quality of our decision-making.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"&

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