Senior Data Analyst

Summary

Join InStride's growing Data Analytics team as a Sr. Data Analyst, transforming data into actionable insights and recommendations that drive strategic decisions. Collaborate with stakeholders across the company, providing data-driven insights to support growth and operational efficiency. Build a strong data culture by enabling key business partners to self-serve data through dynamic dashboards. Analyze complex datasets, build and maintain Tableau dashboards, and identify, define, and track company-wide KPIs. Ensure data accuracy and consistency, create compelling visualizations, and maintain thorough documentation. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in data analysis or business intelligence, strong SQL and Tableau expertise, excellent business acumen, and exceptional communication skills. InStride offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a chance to make a meaningful impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a data analysis or business intelligence role
• Strong expertise in SQL and visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Excellent business acumen with the ability to quickly understand complex business processes and relationships between data
• Proficient in statistics and comfortable applying statistical methods to analyze data
• Experience identifying, defining, and tracking KPIs that support strategic business initiatives
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a knack for making data insights easy to understand for non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with technical teams and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex datasets from Databricks to provide actionable insights across internal teams such as sales, marketing, finance, and product
• Build and maintain dynamic Tableau dashboards that empower stakeholders to self-serve and track key metrics
• Work closely with business partners to understand needs and provide data-driven insights for strategic decisions
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, helping them interpret data and apply it effectively
• Identify, define, and track company-wide key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with business goals
• Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of KPIs, suggesting new metrics to support organizational consistency
• Ensure accuracy and consistency in data reporting, collaborating with analytics engineers to maintain data quality
• Validate data models, ensuring alignment with business requirements and optimization for reporting
• Create clear and compelling visualizations to communicate complex data to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Present insights and recommendations in a concise, actionable format to business leaders and teams
• Maintain thorough documentation of data models, analysis processes, dashboards, and business rules
• Ensure stakeholders understand key metrics and methodologies through clear and accessible documentation
• Enable key business partners to make data-driven decisions by providing timely and insightful analysis
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure the reporting infrastructure supports efficient and accurate business insights
• Identify and track key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive business success and continuously evaluate their effectiveness
• Improve data visualization and storytelling capabilities across the organization, increasing trust in and reliance on data
• Help drive business performance by uncovering trends and opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the edtech or education sector is a plus

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid family leave
• Best-in-class health care benefits