Business Analyst, Partnerships

About Apartment List
Apartment List is revolutionizing the rental experience. We’re not just helping people find apartments—we’re creating meaningful matches between renters and homes they’ll actually love. With our Smart Platform, powered by AI and a pay-per-lease model, we align our success directly with results for our partners. It’s a smarter, more personalized way to rent—and we’re just getting started.
About The Role
We're looking for a sharp and systems-minded Business Analyst to support the growth and scalability of our partnership ecosystem. Sitting on the Strategy & Partnerships team, you’ll blend analytical rigor with creative thinking to build tools, frameworks, and insights that guide strategic decision-making. Your work will help us move faster, operate smarter, and build the data foundation that supports everything from pilot design to executive reporting.
Here’s what you’ll do as part of the team:

• 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
  

Here are the skills and experience you’ll need to be successful:

• You have 1–2 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a fast-paced analytical role
• You’re fluent in SQL and comfortable navigating large, messy, real-world datasets
• You’ve built scalable and reusable solutions and know when something is built to last
• You have strong written communication and documentation skills, and can structure insights for clarity and impact
• You’re curious and comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing problem spaces
  

Nice-to-haves

• 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
  

What Success Looks Like In This Role

• Partnership analytics and reporting becomes scalable, automated, and accessible
• Ad-hoc analyses evolve into sustainable tools or dashboards
• The team moves faster with clearer insights, from ideation to launch
• You help us get smarter with every partnership, documenting learnings and tracking patterns
  

Why This Role Matters
This role is foundational to scaling our partnerships function — the Business Analyst enables smarter decisions, faster execution, and sustained partnership growth.
Here's The Pay Range
At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US Total Target Compensation (TTC) for this position is:

• Zone 1: $92,000 - $112,000 Base Salary + equity
• Zone 2: $85,000 - $103,000 Base Salary + equity
• Zone 3: $78,000 - $95,000 Base Salary + equity
  

This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.
We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.