Senior Analyst, Data Analytics

We are NYC based, but remote friendly unless specified. Hello, World! Codecademy is on a mission to build inspiring careers in technology through engaging, accessible, and interactive online coding education.Our learners have gone on to start new jobs, launch new companies, and lead new lives thanks to their work with Codecademy, and our platform has transformed the way businesses develop and retain their teams.Since 2011, our team has grown to over 200 employees serving 50+ million learners from 190+ countries. We’ve raised over $82M in venture capital funding from top investors including Prosus, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more--which gives us the capital to get stuff done in an impactful way.Join us to help build a business that empowers tens of millions of people to lead better lives!We are building a brand new team in Hyderabad, India but were based in NYC. (India based candidates only)The India team is focused on building products and offerings for India, adapting features to ensure that learners in India have the best possible experience throughout. The team would be responsible for building and owning foundational global services and applications on them to serve the Indian market, understanding users and product usage, running experiments and shipping continuous improvements.What You’ll Do

• Evaluate data to proactively identify opportunities that improve the team members’ experience and business outcomes.
• Contribute to analytics infrastructure by building and extending on top of data models focusing on performance and maintainability.
• Ensure upstream product model changes integrate well with our data model, and when it doesn’t build the necessary capabilities to adjust.
• Implement exploration tools and dashboards in Looker to help cross-functional stakeholders glean insights for their functional area.
• Train end-users to self-serve data requests with Looker.
• Apply software engineering best practices to the analytics workflow (ex: version control, testing).
• Identify process improvements, contribute to our documentation, and share best practices with the team and our end-users.
• Collaborate with business operations, data science and data engineering to ensure data quality and integrity
  

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Reputation as a customer obsessed data and analytics expert
• Minimum of 3 years in an analytical role for a digital product
• Strong problem solving skills to determine how best to employ multiple data sets and analytical methods to answer product development questions
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in communicating the results of an analysis to a variety of audiences
• Deep technical expertise in SQL and business intelligence tools (e.g., Looker)
• Proficiency with agile development software methodologies
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and tight timelines
• Strong track record of establishing trusted relationships
  

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Proficient in BI tools like Looker, Programming languages like SQL and Python, Expert in Data Modeling using dbt and LookML, and comfortable using Git, Segment and data warehouse like Redshift/Snowflake.
• Experience working in Edtech or equivalent industries

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to characterize a business problem and formulate it as a research question with associated hypotheses
• Ability to put a business problem into a quantifiable form
• Apply the scientific method to solving business problems
• Maps insights to business value
• Expert in establishing metrics that measure product key performance indicators

Communication

• Ability to influence without authority
• Writes clear analysis documentation to a variety of audiences
• Ability to impactfully present findings and the methodologies employed to gain them to big and small audiences
• Ability to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences

Collaboration

• Considered by peers and management as a strong listener and thought partner
• Initiates regular collaboration with product, design, engineering, curriculum, marketing, sales, and community teams
• Viewed as an advocate for company-wide data literacy
• Proficiency with agile development methodologies

Analytics Technicals

• Exhibits natural and intuitive user empathy
• Ability to independently design, implement, and operate experiments
• Expertise in methods and processes for data exploration and visualization
• Expertise with SQL and low code / no code BI tools
• Ability to create actionable insights and recommended next steps from analysis

Check out our Engineering Values matrix on our Github here.Equal Employment OpportunityAt Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of learners with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.