City Cast
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DataAnalyst
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“Data Analyst at City Cast. Skills: SQL, BI tools, AI tools, Data storytelling. Own City Cast's audience and revenue data. Define and steward the metrics that matter”
What You'll Achieve.
become the connective tissue between our audience, our editorial work, and our business; single source of truth for our audience and revenue data; build and maintain dashboards; forecast where we're headed; help our staff understand what the numbers are telling us; build out a robust data ecosystem; build dashboards that people actually use
Industry & Context.
surface the patterns behind growth (and decline); Support specific investigations and decisions; rigorous, on-demand analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years of experience in a data analyst, business intelligence, or audience analytics role, fluent in SQL, comfortable in at least one BI or visualization tool, fluent with AI tools
Nice to Have
experience in news, podcasting, or media, Experience with Python or R for analysis, built dashboards that people actually use
What You'll Do.
Own City Cast's audience and revenue data
Define and steward the metrics that matter
Work with teams to build data ecosystem
Wrangle and maintain unified analytics dashboards
Design dashboards tailored to different audiences
Forecast audience growth
Support finance and sales forecasts
Develop first-party data strategy
regular insights to staff
Use AI tools to scale work
Support specific investigations and decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
works cross-functionally with editorial, revenue, marketing, and operations; working with leadership to align on definitions, benchmarks, and goals; Work with operations, membership, revenue, finance, editorial teams; present findings to non-technical colleagues — including journalists and executives
Communication Scope
storytelling; present findings to non-technical colleagues; clarity and judgment
Full Job Description
City Cast is the leading network of local podcasts and newsletters, with daily shows in cities across the country. We're looking for a Data Analyst to become the connective tissue between our audience, our editorial work, and our business. As City Cast's Data Analyst, you will be the single source of truth for our audience and revenue data. You'll build and maintain dashboards that bring together listenership, newsletter engagement, web traffic, advertising performance, and subscriber data. You'll forecast where we're headed, surface the patterns behind growth (and decline), and help our staff understand what the numbers are telling us. This role reports into the Chief Operating Officer and works cross-functionally with editorial, revenue, marketing, and operations. Deadline to apply: May 28, 2026 ### What You'll Do * Own City Cast's audience and revenue data end-to-end — from ingestion and cleaning through dashboarding, reporting, and storytelling. * Define and steward the metrics that matter to City Cast, working with leadership to align on definitions, benchmarks, and goals. * Work with operations, membership, revenue, finance, editorial teams to build out a robust data ecosystem. * Wrangle and maintain a unified analytics dashboards that pulls from podcast platforms (Megaphone, Apple Podcasts, Spotify), newsletter ESP, web analytics, our CRM, and subscription systems. * Design dashboards tailored to different audiences — high-level health metrics for the executive team, market-level performance for editorial, pipeline and pacing for revenue. * Forecast audience growth across our network, by city and by line of business, and stress-test those forecasts against real performance. Support finance and sales forecasts. * Develop first-party data strategy and maintenance across platforms. * Deliver clear, regular insights to staff — what's working, what isn't, what changed this month, and why it matters — through written reports, presentations, and informal coaching. *
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