We are looking for an experienced Senior Analyst or Manager level candidate to join our Analytics team.

The Analytics and Insights job family is responsible for providing data driven insights to the business to improve decision making. These are embedded analytics teams that live in the functional areas and provide data requirements to the centralized data team.

For this particular role, you will be working closely with Sales Finance and will require Salesforce and Strategic Analytics experience, preferably in a B2B setting.

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Responsibilities

• Business Partnership: Own one stakeholder relationships regarding either business strategy, corporate metric forecasting, go to market, product strategy, pricing strategy and functional strategy needed to answer GitLab’s hardest questions.
• Partner with executive team members across the company to provide data driven decision support using your analytical, business and financial acumen.
• Highly skilled in being able to provide analysis and scientific data to answer GitLab’s toughest analytical questions.
• Financial Modeling: Build bottoms up decision support models to measure and drive key decisions in the business.
• Communication: Prepare and review visualizations of all types of data to promote internal understanding of your team's insights. Expert influencer to our executive team. Clearly articulate insights.
• Data Science Modeling: Design, implement and apply analytics techniques (e.g., optimization, machine learning, experimentation, mathematical modeling) using analytical tools and programming languages (e.g., R, Python, SAS). Be comfortable with a boring solution such as a heuristic when it helps drive the insight.
• Data Driven Insights and Analysis: Summarize key data driven insights to members of the executive team to drive better outcomes, an increase in revenue or decrease in cost. Provide insights across the company.
• The ability to discover data gaps and provide requirements to the Data team and to product management for the proper logging and data repositories.
• Collaborate closely with the executive team, product leadership, and our Data team.
• Support the Product function with revenue insight analysis for growth and pricing teams.
• Support the Finance function with corporate metric forecasting and driver analysis.
• Business Insights: deep understanding of business models and ability to identify opportunities to apply rigorous data analytics methods to formulate actionable insights and recommendations.
• Stakeholder Partnership: be a trusted advisor to stakeholders and execute appropriate analysis to add value to and influence stakeholder decision making.
• Analytical Modeling: ability to formulate models for segmentation, sizing, prediction and forecasting.
• Data Subject Matter Expert: Identify data gaps and document it for our product, data and IT teams. Improve your personal data workflow.
• Testing and test design: Follow A/B testing best practices, execute analysis for A/B tests, experiments across multiple functions.
• Presenting Data and Insights: make dashboards, visualizations and presentations to advance decision making power in the company.
• Mentorship: mentor analysts on the team.
• Be a culture definer and evolver of GitLab Values.

Requirements

• Experience with Salesforce and working with Sales as your main stakeholder.
• Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data driven insights. Excellent analytical skills.
• Proficient in SQL; R, Python preferred.
• Financial Modeling: Be able to create financial models that follow industry best practice. Expertise in Google sheets (we do not use excel for modeling purposes).
• A/B Testing experience: experience designing and executing A/B tests in collaboration with growth or product teams.
• Business Acumen: Be able to understand the business at a level to influence EVP priorities and company strategy.
• Business Partnership: Consistent track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.
• Communication: Ability to present financial data concisely through written and oral communication. Expert at influencing business stakeholders.
• BS degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or relevant degree. MBA preferred.
• Ability to use GitLab.
• Experience recommendation: 7-10 years of experience in a consulting or analytics role ideally with enterprise SaaS software model.
• 1-2 years of experience managing analysts.
• 7-10 years of analytical modeling experience, SQL required, Python and R experience preferred.
• 7-10 years experience contributing to data modeling.
• 3-5 years experience in developing dashboards and visualizations.
• 3-5 years experience with test design and analysis, preferably in the high tech industry.
• Experience with web analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics is a big plus.
• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP is a plus.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

Hiring Process

To view the full job description and hiring process, please view our​ ​handbook​. Additional details about our process can also be found on our ​hiring page​.