Product Analyst

Job#: 3026790

Job Description:

Role: Product Analyst

Duration: Multi-year contract

Local: Hybrid if local to SE MI | Open to remote candidates

Pay: $50-65/hr

Job Description:

The Senior Product Analyst is responsible for enabling intelligent business decisions by designing and delivering robust analytics solutions that blend business acumen, advanced analytics, and technical architecture. This role acts as the strategic insight accelerator for the Digital Cabin product, operating as the analytical "brain" of the product triad by transforming raw data into actionable insights that directly influence product strategy and roadmaps.

This is a hands-on, investigative role requiring deep engagement with data in the Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Central Analytics teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong business partnerships by conducting stakeholder interviews and translating business needs into intelligent, scalable analytics solutions.
• Own the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of metrics, dashboards, reports, analyses, and end-user tools that drive key business decisions.
• Perform deep-dive analysis of complex business problems and ambiguous data sets to uncover root causes, patterns, and improvement opportunities.
• Design and structure analytical datasets directly from raw telemetry using advanced SQL in BigQuery, creating analytical sandboxes without dependency on central pipelines.
• Leverage advanced visualization and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Dash Enterprise) to deliver intuitive, high-impact insights.
• Define and implement new KPIs, metrics, and analytical techniques to improve metric consistency, insight quality, and end-user adoption.
• Proactively identify opportunities to optimize analytics tools, methodologies, and workflows for improved efficiency and scalability.
• Translate business concepts into clearly defined analytical logic and documentation (e.g., defining engagement, active sessions, retention).
• Act as a bridge between Product, Engineering, and Central Analytics teams-prototyping insights while enabling long-term production pipelines.

Required Skills & Experience

• Advanced SQL proficiency, including window functions, CTEs, joins, and nested data structures.
• Strong experience designing analytics solutions that support product and business decision-making.
• Ability to conduct exploratory, investigative analysis in ambiguous and evolving data environments.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in analytics, product analytics, or a related field (Senior Specialist level).
• Strong experience within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem, specifically BigQuery.
• Product analytics focus with experience analyzing user behavior, including retention, churn, engagement, funnels, and MAU/DAU (not limited to financial or operational reporting).
• "Full-stack" analytics capability-comfortably bridging Product, Engineering, and Analytics without reliance on a centralized data team for routine insights.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, R, or similar analytical programming languages.
• Experience with dbt (Data Build Tool).
• Experience with event-based analytics platforms such as Amplitude.
• Background supporting digital products or subscription-based business models.
• Master's degree preferred.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.