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October 8, 2025
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Platform Analyst

Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
$85K/yr - $100K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
Avis Budget Group is a leading car-sharing network, aiming to enable simple and responsible urban living. The Platform Analyst will own the analytics stack, ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating with various teams to enhance data governance and self-service insights.
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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Analytics, Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to define and deliver Zipcar’s global data analytics strategy
  • Define and document Zipcar’s core business metrics in alignment with governance policies, ensuring consistency across teams and reports
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on Zipcar’s data platform, including data generation, capture, transformation, and modeling in Looker and the data warehouse
  • Design and lead training programs to build company-wide proficiency in Looker, enabling teams to confidently explore and interpret data
  • Develop and document core metrics and dashboards in Looker, ensuring metrics accurately reflect business performance and are consistent throughout the platform
  • Build tools for root-cause analysis and automated alerting to help stakeholders quickly identify and resolve issues
  • Continuously optimize platform usability, security, and clarity by managing access, auditing usage, and maintaining content hygiene
  • Advise on strategies for data governance across the organization by standardizing tooling, maintaining a single source of truth, and providing training on analytics practices
  • Work with a wide variety of stakeholders at differing levels of data literacy

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; advanced degree a plus
  • Minimum two years of professional analytics experience, ideally in a related industry
  • Proven experience designing and delivering training programs to onboard employees on a data platform and upskilling current employees with best practices
  • Excellent SQL skills and experience working with large-scale cloud data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
  • Professional experience with data visualization and BI tools, with Looker experience strongly preferred
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels (including executive team) and articulate ideas, analysis results, and recommendations
  • Familiarity with software development workflows (version control, code review, reproducibility)
  • Strong understanding of data visualization principles and experience presenting insights through clear, intuitive charts, graphs, and dashboards

Preferred

  • Experience with modern programming languages like Python or R
  • Knowledge of ETL processes and dbt
  • Experience working with standard AWS services (EC2, S3, etc.)
  • Familiarity with statistical methods
  • Background in transportation, location planning, urban analytics, or consumer marketplaces

Benefits

Avis Budget Group offers professionals and individuals with vehicle rental and sharing services.
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Founded in 1946
Parsippany, New Jersey, USA
10001+ employees
http://avisbudgetgroup.com