Staff Data Analyst

Guitar Center is seeking a Staff Data Analyst to act as a senior analytics partner to Merchandising and adjacent commercial teams. This onsite role in Westlake Village, CA focuses on spotting and sizing revenue and margin opportunities, setting up measurement and experimentation, and helping leaders make decisions grounded in data.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Merchandising leaders to support decision-making across pricing, assortment, allocation, promotions, inventory, vendors, and visual merchandising.
• Identify, size, and sequence high-impact opportunities related to revenue, margin, inventory, and customer outcomes in partnership with Merchandising leaders and analytics management.
• Convert unclear commercial questions into actionable analytical and measurement plans, including rigorous analysis and proof-of-concept work when it helps move priorities forward.
• Define the data and capabilities required, then partner with Data Engineering, BI, and other Sr. Analysts to operationalize durable solutions.
• Lead hypothesis development, selection of comparison groups, and interpretation with attention to seasonality, selection bias, halo effects, and cannibalization.
• Translate complex findings into clear recommendations, building Merchandising fluency in using data and BI to diagnose performance, test ideas, and make confident decisions.
• Partner with analytics management to define and document Guitar Center’s experimentation and causal inference policies and standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in data analytics, or closely related roles, including Staff-level scope or equivalent senior individual contributor leadership in recent years.
• Proven experience partnering with leaders to identify and size opportunities, shape priorities, and improve decisions; Direct Retail experience is a plus.
• Deep fluency in retail, eCommerce, merchandising, inventory, pricing, promotions, customer analytics, or finance analytics, with the ability to link results to P&L, margin, inventory, and customer outcomes.
• Strong skills in SQL and Python, including the ability to apply AI-assisted development effectively, review and debug AI-generated code, and critically validate analytical logic and outputs.
• Strong experimental design and causal inference judgment, including comparison-group selection, incrementality, uncertainty, and halo and cannibalization effects.
• Strong BI and data visualization skills for exploration, prototyping, and decision-focused storytelling, with experience in modern BI platforms such as Omni, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex analysis as concise narratives for senior leaders and non-technical partners.
• Staff-level influence and ownership, shown by establishing practical methods, sharing expertise, and building trust across business, analytics, BI, Data Engineering, and Data Science partners.

Technologies

SQL, Python, Omni, Looker, Tableau, Power BI

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail and/or the music industry preferred.
• Curious self-starter who seeks to push boundaries, ask the right questions, and follow data wherever it leads.
• Experience operating in a dynamic environment where decisions have tangible impact.

Location and Salary

• Location: Westlake Village, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 140,000 - 175,000 per year