Senior Paid Media Analyst

Description

Do you love solving complex digital measurement challenges? Are you energized by connecting paid media, email, web, and ad server data into a clear picture of performance?

At Avalon, we help mission-driven nonprofits raise millions of dollars to advance causes that matter. As our Senior Paid Media Analyst, you'll play a critical role in helping us understand how digital marketing drives results across the supporter journey.

This role sits at the intersection of Analytics and Digital, serving as Avalon’s lead resource for ad server implementation, multi-touch attribution, digital reporting infrastructure, and performance measurement. You'll work closely with our Digital team to ensure data is accurate, integrated, and actionable while helping shape how we measure success across paid media, email, and the full digital ecosystem.

If you enjoy building reporting systems, troubleshooting data issues, analyzing cross-channel performance, and translating complex datasets into meaningful insights, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do With Us

As our Senior Paid Media Analyst, you'll help build and maintain the measurement framework that powers Avalon's digital fundraising programs including:

Ad Server & Attribution

• Lead the integration and ongoing management of ad server data into Avalon's broader reporting ecosystem.
• Build and maintain data pipelines that integrate ad server, paid media, email, and web analytics data. 
• Analyze de-duplicated conversion data and support the development of multi-touch attribution models that provide a more complete understanding of supporter behavior.

Reporting Infrastructure & Data Quality

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance Avalon’s digital reporting environment, including Tableau dashboards and ETL workflows. 
• Ensure the integrity, consistency, and reconciliation of data across digital platforms, ad servers, ETL tools, and internal databases. 
• Develop scalable reporting solutions that enable internal teams and clients to confidently understand performance. 

Performance Analysis & Strategic Insights

• Analyze paid media, email, and cross-channel performance to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for optimization. 
• Translate complex analytical findings into actionable recommendations for Digital and client teams. 
• Support testing, forecasting, attribution analysis, and measurement initiatives that improve fundraising outcomes. 

This role offers the opportunity to influence how Avalon approaches digital measurement and attribution while partnering with a collaborative team dedicated to helping nonprofits grow their impact.

Requirements

What We Need

We’re looking for someone with a solid technical background and approximately 4-6 years of experience in digital analytics and paid media measurement and analysis.  The strongest candidates will bring:

Required Experience

• Experience working with paid media, email, web analytics, and digital marketing datasets. 
• Advanced SQL/T-SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets. 
• Experience building and maintaining Tableau dashboards and reporting solutions. 
• Hands-on experience with ad server implementation, management, and reporting.
• Experience with ETL tools and data ingestion platforms such as Hevo, FiveTran, Windsor, Funnel, or similar. 
• Experience identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving data discrepancies across reporting environments. 
• Strong understanding of attribution methodologies, conversion tracking, and digital measurement frameworks. 

Highly Preferred

• Experience working with de-duplicated conversion data and multi-touch attribution models. 
• Experience designing data structures, field mappings, and reporting frameworks that support scalable analytics. 
• Understanding of platform attribution differences across paid media and email environments. 
• Experience supporting nonprofit fundraising, donor acquisition, or direct response marketing programs. 

Bonus Points

• Python programming experience. 
• Experience pulling and processing data through APIs. 
• Experience with forecasting, scenario modeling, marketing mix modeling, or incrementality testing.
• Experience working with other data visualization tools such as Looker Studio.
• Qualified applicants will reside in the United States and will be legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of hire. Avalon is unable to sponsor employment visas or provide immigration-related employment sponsorship at this time.

Why you will love Avalon

Since 1997, Avalon has been committed to making the world a better place by helping our clients raise millions of dollars needed to fulfill their inspiring missions. In April 2026, Avalon merged with VeraData, a data analytics and fundraising intelligence firm. This merger expanded our capabilities and deepened the insights, technology, and strategy we bring to our clients, allowing us to deliver even more powerful, data-informed fundraising solutions while staying true to the mission-driven work that defines us.

We are proud to be a fully remote workplace, hiring the best fundraisers and marketers in the business, no matter where they live in the U.S. We also value opportunities to come together for team and client meetings when needed. We are strategic, analytical, innovative, collaborative, and most of all, passionate about our work. We love what we do, and it shows in our engaged teams, industry recognition, and the results we deliver for our clients.

Avalon is proud of our supportive and collaborative team environment that encourages professional development while recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces differences every day and where each of our staff is supported and inspired to reach their full potential.

In addition to being a great place to work, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid leave, remote work reimbursements, employer-paid life and disability insurance, and a safe harbor 401(k) plan.

The salary range for this position is $95,000-$110,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Ready to Join Us?

If this opportunity excites you, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and a cover letter through the provided link. 

Avalon Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone, regardless of background, feels valued, respected, and empowered.