About Yay Lunch:

At Yay, lunch is our favorite subject. We believe that every student should have the opportunity to enjoy a freshly made, wholesome meal they’ll love while at school, and that parents should trust that their child feels cared for and nourished.

Founded by parents for parents in 2018, we’ve expanded quickly through the mid-Atlantic and East Coast with even more growth to come. We have exciting plans backed by experienced venture capital partners, and we can’t wait to bring our mission to more schools.

We’d love to have you on the team! As a startup, we hustle with heart. We’re team players and self-starters. We want you to love what you do, and we give you the tools to succeed with our commitment to flexibility, transparency, respect, empowerment, and positivity. Come join us!

About the team:

We take our work seriously, while recognizing that work is just one part of being a real human. We rise and fall as a team.

In this role, we would expect there to be minimal travel, but expect to get your chance to periodically ride along with a Brand Ambassador, visit a food vendor, and to shadow a delivery to a school near you on a regular basis to stay in close contact with how our business works. This job is remote, but must be based in one of our existing markets: Atlanta, Maryland, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Virginia, or Washington D.C.

We firmly believe that talent comes in a great variety of forms from a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and lifestyles.

About the Role:

The Business Analyst will play an integral part in positioning Yay Lunch for continued success in the future. As an individual contributor, you will play a critical role in the development, improvement, and maintenance of data-driven decision-making through advanced data analysis and visualization tools, primarily using Snowflake SQL, Mode, dbt, GitHub. You will help shape company-wide analytics and lead efforts to create data-driven insights and support decision-making across the organization, working closely with stakeholders from multiple departments. You’ll help support the evolution of a robust and scalable analytics platform.

The ideal candidate will be able to thrive in ambiguity, own and execute multiple concurrent deliverables (as an individual contributor and by helping support the team) while working effectively with executive leaders and stakeholders across the company. You’ll partner with stakeholders to respond and anticipate reporting needs to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business in a repeatable and scalable way. An ability to operate independently is paramount, so that actionable insights can be outlined to make a real impact on our business. We’re looking for someone who can get really excited about driving positive business impact through data!

Our data infrastructure is under construction! Expect to be involved at all levels of projects and working in an evolving data environment where your input will help shape the future.

Key objectives:

• Obtain and apply context to raw data to extract meaningful information
• Operate independently - given minimal direction and support, outline and meet task requirements
• Conduct in-depth analysis and provide actionable insights such as interactive dashboards and visualizations to address stakeholder requirements.
• Collaborate with team members to integrate data sources, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the organization
• Undertake specific initiatives to improve company data integrity
• Develop, maintain, and optimize data models using dbt

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ years of reporting & analytics experience (includes time towards advanced degrees)

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g. computer science or natural sciences) and/or equivalent experience

• Advanced/Expert SQL skills, including complex queries, data manipulation, and optimization techniques
• Hands-on experience with reporting tools (such as Snowflake, Mode, Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Github, dbt, Google Analytics)
• A strong sense of personal humility
• Flexibility, curiosity, adaptability - we are a growing and changing data environment
• Ability to be effective in an organization whose staff all work remotely
• Strong project management, organizational skills and ability to engage stakeholders and meet deadlines for multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity
• High level of written and oral communication skills

Ideal but not required:

• Masters or advanced degree in a quantitative field
• Experience with cloud warehouses, data transformation tools like dbt and other analytics languages such as Python
• Experience creating predictive models of success based on past business performance
• Preference will be given to candidates in or near an existing Yay Lunch Market location

We Provide

• Salary $70,000-$85,000 + discretionary bonus + company options
• Health Insurance - Medical, Vision, Dental and Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Short-term Disability Insurance, and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(K) Retirement, up to 3.5% employer match
• Flexible paid time off (unlimited time off program)
• Technology allowance, data stipend, office allowance (or co-working space)
• Remote and flexible work
• Significant support structures, & coaching from central team members