Analytics Engineer

SJC stands as Canada’s largest privately owned communications company, distinguished by its portfolio of leading media brands, including Toronto Life, Chatelaine, and Maclean’s. We are looking for a motivated Analytics Engineer to support our Media team.

In this role you will support the analytics and insights delivery that drives our key north-star metrics: Ad yield, Known Audience Reach, Marketing ROAS —across 6+ distinct brands.

You’ll:

• Own and evolve our analytics engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap.
• Build and maintain scalable, well-documented ELT models powering business-critical reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand data needs across AdOps, Sales, Product, and Marketing. And translate data into strategic actions.
• Drive adoption of self-serve and AI-enabled analytics by enabling stakeholders with clean, well-structured data models & insights deep-dives.
• Directly impact the growth of our programmatic revenue, Registered users and Paid members/subscribers. Ensuring we’re enabling product velocity, supporting business goals, and leveraging our first party data effectively across the organization.

Success milestones include:

What does success look like

0-3 Months

• Complete data access & onboarding checklist
• Design ELT pipelines for Key Programmatic metrics, and audience stats.
• Deliver audit report on Ad Yield, IPP / IPS metric and present findings to key stakeholders

3 - 6 Months +

• Reduce time-to-insights by 2x for Sales, Consumer Marketing and AdOps via AI agents and data pipelines.
• Present insights & opportunities, support delivery/execution towards ‘26 business initiatives (Less-is-more ads strategy, Reg-wall, Growth reporting)

6 - 12 months & beyond

• Pilot new tactics and achieve team goals.
• Enrich Customer Data platform and increase AI adoption by ≥XX users; cited in at least 1 quarterly business review.

These areas, while important, are outside this role’s scope:

• Shaping editorial content strategy or topic planning
• Ownership of ad trafficking systems or platform engineering
• Managing paid acquisition or broader marketing campaign execution

Who You Are

• 3+ years’ experience in Analytics, Retail-media Ops, Marketing Ops, Ad Ops or similar role.
• Comfortable with ETL tools such as Dataform, Airflow, dBT, dagster. A strong grasp of SQL and dimensional modeling.
• Strong analytical communicator. Ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams.
• A curious, action oriented mindset and a desire to take full ownership of the data layer. Eager to grow into AI-native data professional.

What Motivates You

• Taking initiative: Scrappy, solution oriented, and a clear communicator. You enjoy working on diverse projects to synthesize high leverage insights.
• Impact: Driving a core revenue metric and seeing tangible gains. Mission oriented work to support independent journalism in Canada.
• Collaboration: Thrive in cross-functional teams to turn data into action
• Learning & Growth: You enjoy coding SQL, using claude-code/chatgpt/gemini, developing statistical skills (Data Science), and coaching from senior team members.
• Data Storytelling: Crafting narratives from numbers that influence business decisions.

Who are we:

A dynamic and influential organization within the industry, SJC excels in the creation, publication, and production of best-in-class content through its comprehensive content and creative studios, advanced advertising technology, and state-of-the-art print facilities. We collaborate with clients across North America to deliver innovative marketing solutions that effectively inform, inspire, and empower audiences across all platforms. With significant reach and influence, SJC has proudly been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 22 consecutive years, a testament to our commitment to excellence. To learn more about our organization, please visit

Accommodations at SJC

SJC is an equal opportunity employer. SJC is committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise the Human Resources department if any accommodations are needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process. Any information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Inclusion at SJC

Equality and respect for all is one of our founding values and core beliefs at SJC. We are a diverse group with associates of all ages, orientations, races and talents. We celebrate this diversity and we draw strength from it. Inclusivity at SJC means fostering a culture that welcomes and respects each individual as equal – both inside our walls and within the larger community.