Staff Data Analyst

Summary

Join Vercel as a Staff Data Analyst and transform data into actionable insights that drive key business decisions and product strategies. Collaborate with various teams to translate complex data into meaningful narratives and self-service tools. Define and establish critical business metrics, automate reporting systems, and build scalable visualizations. Influence the company’s strategic direction by uncovering deep insights from Vercel’s proprietary data. Prototype new analytical solutions, continuously improve workflows, and identify opportunities for innovation. Ensure Vercel’s teams have the necessary data to succeed.

Requirements

• Have 6+ years of experience in a Data Analyst, Product Analyst, Operations Analyst, Business Analyst, or a similar role
• Be a SQL pro – and have tech industry experience analyzing nuanced datasets and writing your own complex queries
• Have professional familiarity with applied statistics and scripting languages like Python or R
• Have deep experience with ELT data modeling, especially with dbt; and building analytical narratives using modern BI tools like Hashboard, Looker, and Omni
• Have very strong executive communication skills and empathy to understand and discover business pain points and build solutions

Responsibilities

• Shape Strategic Insights: Transform data into actionable insights that influence Vercel’s product and business strategies by establishing key metrics, building dynamic visualizations, and automating reporting workflows
• Drive Operational Efficiency: Develop metrics, self-service tools, and in-depth analyses that improve operational processes and enable data-driven decisions, continuously refining how we track performance across the organization
• Identify and Address Opportunities: Proactively uncover areas for improvement, such as streamlining reporting automation, conducting deep-dive analyses to address critical business questions, and establishing new analytical partnerships to unlock further growth
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Engage with product, business, and leadership teams to understand their goals, translating their needs into data-driven solutions that provide clarity and drive decision-making
• Build Product Analytics Models: Design and implement new analytics datasets using proprietary Vercel data to optimize growth strategies, reduce costs, and increase the impact of our product development efforts
• Prototype and Innovate: Rapidly prototype and iterate on dashboards and data tools to support workflow optimization across the product organization, discovering and promoting best practices for data usage and efficiency
• Support Data Accessibility: Develop and maintain the analytical technologies that empower all teams at Vercel to have timely, structured, and flexible access to the data they need, driving agility across the organization
• Influence the Data Roadmap: Shape the analytics roadmap by working closely with both the Data Analytics department and internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment between analytics efforts and broader company goals

Preferred Qualifications

Want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone

Benefits

• Great compensation package and stock options
• Inclusive Healthcare Package
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills
• Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year, and paid holidays
• Remote Friendly - Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed