Analytics Engineer

Orbit Media Studios is seeking an Analytics Engineer with a passion for separating the signal from the noise. Your job makes you a part of the Optimization department at Orbit: tasked with improving the performance of existing websites for both ranking and conversion.

Our team swims in a tremendous amount of big business marketing data from sources like GA4, Search Console, Semrush and Ahrefs. All of this fantastic data converges in Looker Studio with data warehousing in BigQuery. Our Analytics Engineers customize reporting to suit the needs of typically sizable marketing organizations, while constantly improving our centralized system of doing smarter reporting on SEO and CRO activities for all of our agency clients.

Who we are

Orbit Media is an award-winning web design, development and optimization company based in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. But, you can work from anywhere. This can be a remote position.

This role exists within “Optimization” at Orbit. Our unit focuses on improving websites after they’ve already been built: setting and actualizing a long-term vision.

Since 2001, we’ve been designing and building beautiful, audience-centric, optimized websites for a huge variety of clients in nearly every industry. We’re proud to be one of the first Illinois B Corps with deep roots in our community. We have fun and do great work. And we’d love for you to be a part of it.

The Job

Collaborate on an account team with a Senior Digital Strategist, Process Manager, and Writer
Customize and standardize Looker Studio dashboards to highlight SEO and CRO performance
Work with client IT and marketing departments to troubleshoot and maximize data quality
Work with BigQuery, pre-built connectors, and custom API connections to assemble data
Take a process-minded approach to constantly making your business intelligence work apply faster, better, and more impressively with every new client
Expect overlap with these common job titles: Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Business Intelligence (BI) Developer, Database Administrator

The Skills

Advanced GA4 knowledge for custom Explorations, data troubleshooting, etc.
BigQuery SQL for use with Looker Studio, custom in-house monitoring
CSS for GrowthBook experiments and Looker Studio customizations
GTM/JavaScript for GrowthBook experiments and custom GA4 Events
Apps Script for Looker Studio Connectors, Google Sheets automation
Google Sheets expertise for advanced functions
Documentation and technical writing so that we never have to solve hard problems twice

Brownie Points

Client-facing experience, especially managing relationships spanning large organizations
PHP for use with our custom in-house business intelligence and mostly WordPress client sites
Zapier for tying our various cloud tools for marketing, productivity, etc. together
AI prompting for its ever-increasing role in all that we do
Git for source control

Benefits

15 PTO days and 1 VTO (volunteer time off) day
12 paid holidays including a floating holiday and PTO from Xmas to New Years
Health, dental, & vision insurance
Simple IRA with 3% matched by Orbit
Paid parental leave
STD/LTD options
Identity Protection option
Budget for professional growth

Interested?

Apply now

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

Orbit Media provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

More About Orbit

Become an Orbiteer

What does it mean to be an Orbiteer? It means being an integral part of building beautiful conversion-oriented websites that deliver genuine results for our clients. It means being able to be creative while working on small teams. It means never being siloed.

It means getting to be yourself.

We hire people at Orbit so that you can do your best work. You have input at every stage of a project, and your fingerprints are all over it. We love working with each other, we share credit and laughter, and we get better because we get along. It’s pretty nice.

Becoming an Orbiteer means being driven to build something, and having the freedom to make it your own.

Orbit’s been vital to my professional and personal growth. I love that I get to create human-focused, SEO-driven and visually resonant websites. If you strive for excellence, love learning, and thrive in kind, encouraging workplaces, Orbit is for you!

We have great clients, big and small

We work hard to give back

We love Chicago. We’re proud to be a Chicago company, and we use our talents to become an integral part of this city. We’ve helped donate over $660,000 in marketing and web services to deserving non-profits through Chicago Cause, a yearly charity we helped create!

We’re proud to be one of the few Certified B Corporations in Illinois. We practice good environmental stewardship and fair labor laws.

We don’t think it’s enough to do well. At Orbit, we practice doing good. We hope you’ll join us in doing so.

Working fully remote at Orbit has offered me the perfect work-life balance. With the support of an amazing team and work that is exciting and challenging, it really creates a wonderful work environment.

What folks are saying

We’re growing.
You can too.

Every day at Orbit we ask how we can deliver more to our clients (ok, maybe not every Friday). We want you to contribute ideas, take chances, and step out of your comfort zone. We want you to grow professionally and personally.

There’s a culture of work/life balance here that’s nearly unmatched. We have people at all stages of life and careers, from kids straight out of school to people with kids in school. We all hang out. We have game nights, beer fridges, and parties. We’re there at each other’s birthdays and concerts.

Because while we take pride in our work, and work hard, we know there’s more. Orbit is built by and for Orbiteers. Always has been, always will be.

My experience with Orbit has been filled with opportunities to collaborate with fun, smart and respectful colleagues while being able to touch on many interesting projects. It’s a great place to grow and hone in on many different skillsets.

Orbiteer, Anand, having a discussion in a meeting

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“You’re helpful, you’re curious and you like people. If that sounds like you, we hope you click and apply. On our team or on any team, we believe you deserve to work with great people.”