Business Analyst, Partnerships

Apartment List is revolutionizing the rental experience by creating meaningful matches between renters and homes. The Business Analyst will support the growth and scalability of the partnership ecosystem by building tools and insights that guide strategic decision-making and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable analytics infrastructure in BigQuery to support partner- and portfolio-level reporting, evaluate performance, and explore new hypotheses
• Identify data quality issues and workflow inefficiencies, and propose solutions and automations that improve reliability and clarity
• Move beyond “what happened” to uncover why performance looks the way it does—and what to do about it
• Document insights, decisions, and experiments so knowledge compounds across cycles
• Partner closely with internal stakeholders to anticipate data needs, define KPIs, and prepare for upcoming launches
• Conduct competitive landscape and market research to contextualize our partnerships in the broader ecosystem and uncover new opportunities for the team
• Support transforming strategic decisions into operational partnerships

Requirements:

• 1–2 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a fast-paced analytical role
• Fluent in SQL and comfortable navigating large, messy, real-world datasets
• Built scalable and reusable solutions and know when something is built to last
• Strong written communication and documentation skills, and can structure insights for clarity and impact
• Curious and comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing problem spaces
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks or new metrics from scratch
• Exposure to experiment design, pilot programs, or early-stage product/partnership concepts
• Familiarity with marketplace, partnerships, or growth analytics