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PMC: Principal Analytic Engineer

Penske Media
  • Los Angeles, California
    6 days ago

    Job Description

    PMC is seeking a Senior Analytic Engineer to help shape how data is sourced, integrated, and structured within our data warehouse, ensuring it is consistent, trusted, and usable for decision-making across PMC. This role sits at the intersection of analytics engineering and data engineering, with responsibility for helping build and maintain the data models, transformation workflows, and quality standards that make data from CMS platforms, web analytics tools, ad tech systems, and internal applications reliable and useful.

    As a senior individual contributor, you will be a hands-on builder who designs scalable data models, contributes to ingestion and transformation strategies, and partners with Data Engineering and analytics stakeholders to deliver well-structured, business-ready datasets. You will have a chance to work on some of the best brands in media including Variety, Billboard, Deadline, WWD, and Rolling Stone.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Design, build, and maintain scalable data models that transform raw data into structured, business-ready datasets
    • Develop and improve transformation workflows (e.g., dbt) within Snowflake and BigQuery environments, contributing hands-on to complex modeling efforts
    • Help define how data is sourced and integrated from key systems, including CMS platforms, web analytics tools, ad tech platforms, and business applications
    • Support the identification and maintenance of appropriate sources of truth across systems, with attention to data accuracy and usability
    • Establish and follow standards for how data is organized, documented, and used across the data warehouse
    • Implement data quality checks, validation frameworks, and monitoring to ensure reliability of critical datasets
    • Partner closely with Data Engineering on ingestion patterns, pipeline performance, and upstream data quality
    • Build datasets that support consistent analysis across Editorial, Product, Audience, Ad Sales, and Finance use cases
    • Support BI tools such as Looker with well-defined, governed datasets that reduce fragmentation in reporting
    • Translate analytics and reporting requirements into scalable data models and transformations
    • Investigate data discrepancies, document business logic clearly, and improve consistency in metric definitions
    • Contribute to best practices for modeling, transformation, and documentation across the team
    • As part of a team, support break/fix scenarios when necessary and serve in an on-call rotation

    Qualifications:

    You do not need to check every box for the experience below. If you are passionate about this opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

    • At least 6+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or related roles
    • Strong SQL skills and experience designing scalable data models for analytics and reporting use cases
    • Experience working with modern data warehouses such as Snowflake and/or BigQuery
    • Hands-on experience building transformation workflows using dbt or similar tools
    • Experience working with complex, multi-source data environments, including web analytics, ad tech, and business systems
    • Familiarity with Google Analytics 4 and Parse.ly analytics platforms
    • Experience working with advertising data, including Google Ad Manager or related programmatic ecosystems
    • Experience investigating and reconciling conflicting data sources
    • Experience implementing data quality, validation, and monitoring practices
    • Experience supporting BI tools such as Looker
    • Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS and/or GCP

    What Success Looks Like:

    • Trusted, well-documented datasets for audience, content, and revenue reporting are broadly used across teams
    • Recurring discrepancies between key systems are reduced through thoughtful data modeling, validation, and source selection
    • Teams increasingly rely on shared, well-structured datasets instead of one-off logic and fragmented reporting
    • Standardized data models are adopted across core reporting use cases, reducing duplicate logic and inconsistency
    • Data consumers have greater confidence in key metrics and can more easily understand how important KPIs are defined
    • A more unified and usable data layer supports better decisions around content performance, audience engagement, and monetization
    • Improvements to data models, documentation, and metric definitions are durable, maintainable, and shared across the Data team

    As PMC values in-person collaboration and team cohesion, employees work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day remotely with a focus on maintaining a vibrant and inclusive culture.

    Typical wage range: $150k - $170k. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. If you have more or less experience than specified on this job posting, please apply and list your salary expectations.

    If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors).

    It’s all About You…

    PMC's comprehensive benefits package is thoughtfully designed to support every aspect of your life, empowering you to thrive both personally and professionally. We offer PMC-Paid Healthcare with no employee paycheck contributions on medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. PMC also offers Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter), an Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and a 401(k) Retirement Plan with an Employer match. Employees are also eligible to take advantage of company discounts and perks including Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance, Mortgage discounts, and a variety of other savings on wellness, lifestyle, and financial essentials. As part of PMC's dedication to consistently meeting employees’ needs, we are currently launching a new Flexible Vacation Policy.

    At PMC, we believe working in a highly collaborative, office-first environment fosters real-time communication, spontaneous idea sharing, and stronger interpersonal relationships that drive innovation and team cohesion. PMC prioritizes in-person collaboration and does not offer remote-only roles.

    About Penske Media Corporation (PMC) 

    Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a leading global media and information services company whose award-winning content attracts a passionate monthly audience of more than 500 million people.  Since 2004, PMC has been a pioneer in digital media and owns over 300 live events, while reaching audiences across all screens. Penske Media is recognized, as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the United States and North America. 

    Our Companies & Brands 

    • Iconic Media Brands (PMX): Variety, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, SHE Media, Robb Report, Deadline, Eater, Sportico, ARTnews, Fairchild Media, VIBE, IndieWire, SB Nation, ARTFORUM, POPSUGAR, Gold Derby, BEAUTY INC, Art in America, Punch, The Dodo, and more.   
    • Live Events & Experiences: The Golden Globes, SXSW, Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs), Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), Dick Clark's New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, SXSW London, American Music Awards (AMAs), and Latin Music Week.  
    • Data & Analytics: Luminate, the premier music and entertainment data and analytics company.  

    Global Footprint 

    PMC and its subsidiaries are co-headquartered in New York and Los Angeles, with additional offices spanning 14 countries worldwide. 

    Want to learn more? Visit www.PMC.com to explore our complete portfolio. 

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationLos Angeles, California
    IndustryPrinting and Publishing
    Company Size500 to 999 employees
    Websitehttps://www.pmc.com/join-our-team

    About Company

    Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a leading digital media, publishing, and information services company that engages with audiences across the web, television, mobile, print and social media. PMC’s owned and operated brands reach more than 179 million visitors monthly (comScore, 2016) and Penske Media was recently named one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the United States and North America. With the preeminence of its brands, PMC is one of the largest digital media companies in the world, publishing more than 20 digital media brands, including its India.com joint venture with ZEE TV in India and Variety Latino joint venture with Univision Communications Inc. PMC additionally owns and produces more than 80 annual events, summits, award shows and conferences while housing a dynamic research and emerging data business. As of 2016, PMC businesses include: PMC Studios, WWD, Variety Inc., Deadline.com, Fairchild Media, M, India.com, GoldDerby.com, FootwearNews.com, TVLine, CricketCountry.com, Hollywood Life, Beauty Inc, BGR, AwardsLine, Bollywood Life, BPB.in, LA411, NY411, Variety Insight, and Indiewire.com. The company is headquartered in New York, NY and Los Angeles, California with an additional 11 offices around the world.

    Skills

    • Advertisingunmatched
    • Advertising Salesunmatched
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
    • Business Solutionsunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
    • Content Management Systems (CMS)unmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Modelingunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Data Warehousingunmatched
    • Documentation Modelsunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
    • Google Analyticsunmatched
    • Healthcareunmatched
    • Improvement Metricsunmatched
    • Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
    • Lookerunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Model Validationunmatched
    • Musicunmatched
    • On Callunmatched
    • Online Advertisingunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Performance Metricsunmatched
    • Quality Metricsunmatched
    • Realtime Communicationsunmatched
    • Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
    • Reconciliationunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Snowflake Schemaunmatched
    • Structured Dataunmatched
    • System Integration (SI)unmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Usability Engineeringunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched
    • Validation Testingunmatched
    • Web Analyticsunmatched

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