2025 Launch Program: Business Analyst for Lonely Planet

Skip the “entry-level grunt-work,” and start making a real impact on Day 1. The Launch Program is your opportunity to onboard into your full-time role at Red Ventures in a cohort-style environment that gives in-depth training around RV’s beliefs, culture, business model, and leadership. Your first few weeks in training will take place at our Charlotte headquarters alongside a cross-functional cohort group of new RV employees starting their careers across all roles and teams. These individuals will become your built-in support system and community as you navigate the start of your career at Red Ventures.

After your initial onboarding period, you’ll join the Lonely Planet team in NYC, meet your manager and mentor, and find unparalleled opportunities to make a substantial impact and quickly advance your career. You will also receive ongoing learning and development opportunities over the first year of career with the goal of leveling up in two years with strong performance.

Lonely Planet is a trusted, iconic travel brand with over 50 years of experience in helping travelers explore the world. Known for our extensive guidebooks, we are now evolving our digital offerings to create innovative, user-friendly travel digital experiences that bring the expertise of our guides into the modern age. Our goal is to revolutionize how people discover, plan, and experience their travel adventures.

The Launch Program is NOT a rotational program or training role that could end in a job offer – it’s a true full-time role that gives you the Red Ventures 101 before turning you loose to dive in and make a measurable impact on your team!

What You’ll Do:

• Join a functional area in our organization such as SEO, Customer Experience, Paid Media, and Business Operations to find your niche and understand the challenges they face. You’ll work on identifying opportunities for data-driven improvements and advanced analytics solutions.
• As an Analyst, you will bridge the gap between our vast data landscape and impactful business solutions. Your focus will not just be on the technical side, but also on the application of your solutions in a real business context. You will have the responsibility and autonomy to drive decisions and behavior changes.
• Translate complex business problems into clear, measurable projects. You'll see the big picture but also dive into details to uncover new opportunities for growth and optimization.
• Leverage data processing tools to manipulate large datasets to create data-based solutions, leveraging analytical techniques and RV’s proprietary technology to discover and interpret deeper trends and relationships.
• Analyze the impact of your experiments, synthesizing and presenting your findings in a way that clearly communicates the impact and aligns stakeholders to create desired next steps.
• You'll be expected to be an owner of your processes and workstreams, identifying where technology can be deployed to solve business problems in ways we haven’t imagined before.

What We're Looking For:

• Graduating Summer 2025 with a relevant undergraduate degree such as (but not limited to) business, data analytics, math, statistics, computer science, or a combination of these.
• Start date in our August 2025 cohort.
• Strong grit and learning mentality when faced with challenging projects, unfamiliar technology, and ambiguous business problems.
• Ability to collect, mine, and manipulate data from disparate data sources, with a willingness to dig deeper and understand the process that creates data.
• Demonstrated ability to drive decisions and behavior changes through analytical capabilities and data-driven solutions, and the ability to measure and analyze the impact of these solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights, and effectively communicate these insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Foundational analytics toolkit - data extraction, manipulation, and visualizations (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Advanced Excel).
• Nice to have: Familiarity with machine learning, statistical modeling, and optimization, with hands-on experience working directly or indirectly on a related problem. (e.g., R, Python)
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong business acumen and capability of coming up with creative ideas to create value for consumers and businesses.
• Scrappy, tenacious, and self-motivated.
• BUT - also a team player with no ego, a competitive spirit, and great sense of humor.
• Passionate about working in a dynamic, fast-paced, performance-driven environment.

Compensation:

• Starting Salary: $100,000

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Matching 401(k) plan
• Flexible PTO
• Top medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Casual dress code – yes, that means jeans!

Who We Are

Red Ventures is a global, multi-faceted company with a start-up mentality. Founded in 2000 with a focus on establishing strategic partnerships with Fortunate 500 companies, we grew rapidly within those first 10 years, quickly becoming a unicorn by utilizing our proprietary technologies to win in the digital marketing space. In 2015, we entered the age of acquisitions and began growing our own portfolio of owned and operated businesses. Over the subsequent years we diversified the types of industries we worked in and now work with over 100 brands.

Every day, we help millions of people discover pertinent information that helps them make some of life’s biggest decisions, from their health to their home to their finances, among the plethora of industries in which we operate. Whether you work with a brand you know or a brand you’ve never heard of, you’ll know that your work is being seen and making a difference.

For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.

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