Marketing Business Analyst

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · Oakland, CA · Marketing Department

Fivetran is seeking a Marketing Business Analyst to bridge B2B marketing strategy and performance analytics. This role will focus on understanding investment impact, optimizing spend, and providing data-driven insights to marketing leadership. Responsibilities include reporting, impact measurement, and analyzing marketing experiments. Requires strong analytical skills, SQL, BI tools, and B2B SaaS performance metric knowledge.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner closely with the corporate analytics function and act as the liaison between marketing leadership and the Analytics team to build actionable and scalable reporting
  2. Own the weekly and monthly business review process: prepare data and partner with leadership on the narrative
  3. Conduct ad hoc deep dives to diagnose pipeline trends, campaign anomalies, or funnel conversion issues and proactively surface recommendations
  4. Design and maintain models to quantify the impact of marketing programs across the buyer journey
  5. Analyze marketing experiments (A/B tests on landing pages, email sequences, ad creative, offers) to drive continuous improvement

Skills

Required

  • 5-8 years of experience in marketing analytics, GTM analytics, or business intelligence within a B2B SaaS environment
  • Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience working with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
  • Proficiency with BI and visualization tools (Looker experience preferred) and the ability to build executive-ready dashboards and reporting
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce (reports, dashboards, opportunity data) and marketing automation platforms (Marketo preferred)
  • Deep understanding of B2B SaaS performance metrics, including pipeline, ACV, conversion rates, velocity, marketing-sourced vs. influenced pipeline, and attribution concepts
  • Strong business judgment and a clear point of view, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and bring data-backed perspectives to senior stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, move quickly, and drive them to clear, actionable recommendations
  • Comfort operating in a fast-changing environment, where definitions, targets, and operating models evolve, and the ability to balance speed with analytical rigor

Nice to have

  • Python or R proficiency for statistical analysis, automation, or building lightweight models
  • Experience with multi-touch attribution platforms (Bizible/Marketo)
  • Exposure to experiment design, significance testing, or applied statistics in a marketing context
  • Experience with predictive modeling: LTV estimation, propensity scoring, or cohort analysis applied to marketing audiences
  • Familiarity with the modern data stack (Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, Looker)
  • Background in data infrastructure, developer tools, or analytics software industries

What the JD emphasized

  • strong analytical skills
  • business judgment
  • deep understanding of how B2B marketing drives revenue
  • strong analytical skills
  • business judgment
  • clear point of view
  • confidence to challenge assumptions
  • data-backed perspectives
  • independently structure ambiguous problems
  • move quickly
  • drive them to clear, actionable recommendations
  • Comfort operating in a fast-changing environment
  • balance speed with analytical rigor