Associate Monetization Analyst

AppNexus is an internet technology company that enables and optimizes the real-time sale and purchase of digital advertising. Our powerful, real-time decisioning platform supports core products that enable publishers to maximize yield; and marketers and agencies to harness data and machine learning to deliver intelligent and customized campaigns. Headquartered in New York City, AppNexus employs over 1000 professionals in offices spanning five continents.

The Associate Monetization Analyst in AppNexus’ Yield & Monetization group will apply data-driven best practices to optimize publisher revenues from programmatic and direct-sold advertising. You will apply analytics to evaluate client performance, identify opportunities & recommend actions to one or more account segments. Through collaboration with AppNexus’ commercial and service teams, you will identify unique client needs that call for an innovative, consultative approach. Your creative analytics, digging and drive for results will enable a team of senior monetization consultants to deliver game-changing monetization for the Top 100 enterprise publishers globally. The ideal candidate is a highly analytical, creative problem solver motivated by client success and energized by proactive collaboration with internal and client stakeholders to produce results.

• As an entry-level position in our global team of yield advisors, this role provides broad exposure as you manage & improve monetization success of a portfolio of client accounts
• This position offers extensive learning opportunities, measurable revenue impact and a path to either client-facing consulting or data science depending upon your interests
• Work with publishers of diverse size, formats and regional marketplaces that call for careful application of the right tool to each job
• Deliver analysis by mining data from our sophisticated and extensive data infrastructure
• Develop expertise using our proprietary business intelligence platform along with industry-standard SQL, Python and API scripting
• Teach best practices to AppNexus account & client services teams and learn from their complex client relationships
• Develop innovative analytic approaches to customer-specific issues & opportunities
• Support a senior consultant by exploring hypotheses and delivering data-driven insights that motivate change

About your skills:

• Recent graduate with bachelor’s degree
• Quantitative background desired, but flexible if you have demonstrable experience from top-tier advertising, finance or consulting analytics
• Demonstrable interest in analytical consulting and passion for operational efficiency
• Able to solve problems from first principles, then scale standardized solutions across a portfolio of hundreds of clients
• Experience with SQL, Python, Excel and or other data mining/analysis tools.
• Able to mine, analyze and draw insights from very large datasets and tell a story with data to business stakeholders
• Team player with client service experience who is deadline driven, organized and able to multi-task
• Demonstrable passion for online publishing, advertising technology, header bidding & marketplaces desired

More about you:

• You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
• You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
• You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem
• You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing knowledge and toolstext