The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has over 500 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of pricing strategies and revenue optimization
• Deep dive into customer behavior, financial, and market data to provide insights in developing new pricing strategies 
• Partner with the Pricing product manager to design pricing experiments
• Produce post-event analytics and reporting to the broader business, measuring the financial impact of pricing decisions
• Provide financial and analytical support through profitability models to assess current and future performance of customers 
• Perform price, offer, and discount realization analysis; segment by user interests, channel, geography, and more
• Be a vocal advocate of data quality and analytical rigor across the organization, and work closely with engineering to implement robust analytic tracking
• Present findings to leadership to influence product roadmaps
• Foster a data-driven, test-and-learn culture with your passion for telling stories with data.

Requirements

• Capture and synthesize large amounts of data into actionable recommendations and build comprehensive financial models using advanced analytic techniques
• Strategic & analytical mindset - top-notch strategic thinking and problem-solving ability, excellent business intuition
• 3+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, and/or strategy analytics roles 
• Experience with pricing strategy a strong plusFluent SQL skills 
• Exposure to a scripting language like Python or R
• Understanding of statistical analysis and experiment design
• Understanding of financial models and forecasting
• Experience and ability to communicate across all levels and roles in an organization

The Company is backed by Founders Fund, Evolution Media, Courtside Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Advancit Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors. The Athletic is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Athletic was awarded a 2020 Great Place to Work.