Business Analyst, Business Operations and Marketing Analyst

Location.

Aurora or Centennial preferred. Denver Metro region acceptable.

Contract to Hire Direct (1099).

Six month initial contract term with extension or conversion potential.

Work Authorization.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship requirements.

About Ellofant

Ellofant is a modern consulting firm built for those who want to do work that actually moves the needle. We help companies navigate change, complexity, and scale through a blend of strategic thinking, trusted technology, and hands on execution. Our clients rely on us not just for advice, but for building systems, launching products, and driving outcomes that matter. At Ellofant, we value clarity over jargon, momentum over perfection, and people over process. We're looking for curious, driven individuals who want to solve real problems with real impact. If you're excited about challenging what's possible and delivering meaningful change while you're at it, Ellofant might be your next move.

The Role

Ellofant is seeking a Business Analyst focused on Business Operations and Marketing Analytics to work directly with company leadership. This is a high trust role with direct exposure to confidential information and requires strong judgment, discretion, curiosity, and an appetite for turning messy inputs into clear decisions.

The role blends analysis with structured coordination across business development activity, event engagement, and marketing performance. You will make sure that meetings, campaigns, and conversations translate into data we can read, patterns we can act on, and follow through we can trust.

A note before the job post

I am the CEO of Ellofant, and I do not have enough time to tell you I do not have enough time. That sentence is most of the reason this role exists.

The job post below is accurate. It will walk you through Excel and CRMs and networking events and a tourism brand we also own. Read it. But the truer description of this job is a short list of people and moments you will meet in your first few months, and I think you should meet a few of them now.

The founder at the bar on a Tuesday

You will be at a networking event in LoDo that ran fifteen minutes long, holding a wine you did not ask for, talking to a founder who could be a wonderful client or could just be a wonderful conversation. You will be the one who decides which. You will write it down in the car before you drive home, because by Wednesday morning the details will be gone, and on Friday I will ask you what you thought of him. The note you took in the car is the answer. That note also becomes a row in the CRM, and three weeks later it becomes a follow up, and six months later it might become a signed engagement. People who take that note in the car are quietly the people who run things, and there are fewer of them than you would guess.

The number that changes the room

You will, more than once, be the person who walks into a strategy conversation with a single number that quietly reshapes it. Someone will believe the newsletter is dead. You will have the open rate for the last four quarters and the click through by segment, and the conversation will move to a smarter question. Someone will be sure a channel is working. You will have the cost per qualified lead and the revenue attribution and enough context to know whether the story is true. Analysis in a small company is not decks. It is bringing the right number to the right moment.

The dashboard nobody asked for, that everyone starts using

You will build a small handful of reports that were not on any list when you started. A weekly view of pipeline movement. A monthly view of marketing channel performance. A view of event ROI that finally lets us know which meetups pay off and which ones we keep going to out of habit. Nobody will ask for these. You will make them anyway. Within a month people will be asking when the next one drops. This is a real form of ownership and one of the more satisfying parts of the work.

The marketing channel that was quietly working

Somewhere in the data is a signal we have been missing. A referral pattern. An email cadence that outperformed. A partnership that keeps sending qualified traffic. You will find at least one of these in your first quarter and you will tell me. The finding is the value. The telling is the job.

Your car, the Front Range, and the weather we have

You will have your own car and you will use it. Most weeks that means events around the metro and the occasional run out to Boulder or down to Colorado Springs. Denver weather being Denver weather, some of those drives will be more interesting than others. I will not send you into the mountains in snow. I will ask you to be the kind of driver who is at home on the Front Range in the weather we actually have, because the job moves around and so will you.

The phone, which most people cannot actually use

You will make outbound calls to businesses we want to know us, qualify leads on live conversations, take notes a stranger could read a week later, and follow up on a real schedule rather than a vibe. This sounds like nothing. It is not nothing. Most people cannot actually do it. The ones who can know they can, and they tend to be the reason their last company grew faster than the org chart explained.

The other brand on the other side of the desk

Ellofant also owns a tourism business. Some weeks it will not need anything from you. Some weeks it will need you to look at booking data and tell us what is working, chase a partnership discount, help shape a campaign, or stand at a state tourism event and represent us well to a stranger holding a name tag. Two brands means two sets of data and two audiences, and for the right person that variety is one of the better parts of the week, because the work is concrete and the wins are visible.

The reference call, which I make myself

I will call leaders at the larger companies on your resume. Not HR. The actual leaders who watched you work. The difference between a great analyst and a competent one almost never shows up on paper and almost always shows up in a five minute phone call with someone who sat two desks over from you for a year. Please give them a heads up that the call is coming.

The shape of the role

This is a business analyst role sitting at the intersection of operations and marketing, and it is a complete job on its own terms. Done well, it is one of the more interesting seats in a small company, because you see everything. The pipeline, the campaigns, the events, the tourism side, the numbers that tell us what actually worked. The path beyond it is not a carrot and it is not a promise. It is simply what happens, or does not happen, depending on the work.

If the picture in your head is one you would like to be in, the post below will tell you the rest.

What You'll Do

• Track and analyze business development activity across clients, partners, and prospects, and surface the patterns leadership should be looking at.
• Build and maintain reporting on pipeline, marketing performance, event ROI, and operational metrics.
• Own the CRM as a source of truth. Structured records, clean data, consistent follow through on every lead and relationship.
• Attend two or three in person networking events per week, including evening meetups, to engage with attendees and represent Ellofant.
• Capture event based leads, qualify them, and route them into a clear follow up process with tracked outcomes.
• Analyze marketing channel performance across email, referrals, events, partnerships, and paid activity, and recommend where to double down or step back.
• Support campaign planning and measurement for both the consulting brand and the tourism brand, from brief through post campaign readout.
• Prepare concise summaries, updates, and reporting inputs for internal review and external communication needs.
• Coordinate preparation for client meetings, external engagements, and events where analytical or operational support is needed.
• Improve workflows, tracking systems, and reporting cadences as the business grows.

What We're Looking For

• Strong analytical ability with a habit of asking what the number actually means before reporting it.
• Comfortable working directly with company leadership in a high trust environment.
• Strong written communication and the ability to produce clear, structured updates a busy reader can act on.
• Fluent in Excel or Google Sheets. Comfortable with pivot tables, lookups, and building a report that holds up under questioning.
• Familiarity with CRM tools and how to keep one clean, useful, and actually used.
• Comfort with marketing analytics concepts. Attribution, funnel metrics, channel performance, cost per lead, and the difference between a vanity number and a real one.
• Comfortable engaging with new people in networking environments and representing a company professionally.
• Strong interpersonal ability to build relationships quickly and maintain engagement over time.
• Structured, methodical approach to tracking leads, follow ups, and commitments.
• Self starter with a proactive approach and clear ownership of responsibilities.
• Fast learner who adapts quickly to new tools, systems, and contexts.
• High fluency with AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Workspace, and good judgment about which tool fits the task, whether it is drafting, analysis, research, or synthesis.

Why This Role Matters

This role turns activity into insight. It connects meetings, campaigns, and conversations to outcomes we can see, decisions we can defend, and follow through we can trust, so company leadership can focus on high impact client and strategic work.

Fraud Awareness

Please be aware of potential recruitment fraud. Ellofant will never request payment or sensitive financial information at any stage of the hiring process. All legitimate communication will come from an @ellofant.com email address. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Ellofant, please contact us directly.