Ellevation is looking for an experienced, action-oriented Business Intelligence Analyst, who is highly motivated to learn and grow and is passionate about data and analytics in support of driving business decisions. The ideal candidate is a driven analyst who will support us in building and growing our analytics capabilities from descriptive analytics to diagnostic analytics. As a Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll work cross-functionally to help inform and monitor our business strategy for Sales, Revenue, Marketing, and Partner (Customer) Success functions.

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs to gather, analyze, interpret, and communicate data insights that inform stakeholders at all levels to make data-informed decisions.
• Build, maintain, and monitor a comprehensive set of metrics and KPIs to measure the health and success of various business functions across organizations.
• Deliver high-quality analytics through well-architected reporting. 
• Support initiatives to improve, simplify, and optimize data models in the data warehouse to support the analytical data needs. 
• Maintain data integrity and support efforts to improve data quality across systems.
• Make data accessible to users with the right governance and access management in place.
• Serve as an analytics partner to the business by proactively defining metrics for strategic goals and driving data literacy efforts to help improve the adoption of data across the organization.
• Administration of BI Platform.
• Maintain high-quality documentation on the business systems and BI solutions to support Data Governance.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Onboard and learn about Ellevation, and the work we do to improve outcomes for EL students.
• Develop relationships across the Finance and Operations team.
• Meet with various departments to understand their business process, corresponding business systems/data sources, and metrics.
• Get hands-on with our BI Platform.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Develop a solid understanding of current KPIs, and metrics used by various business functions, and understand the context and usage of insights derived from these KPIs and metrics.
• Develop a solid understanding of the data landscape at Ellevation Education.
• Start Reviewing current reports and dashboards associated with metrics and identify areas of improvement.
• Start working on ad-hoc data requests.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Develop a solid understanding of reports and dashboards currently built and used across the organization.
• Start working on the maintenance and improvement of current reports and dashboards. 
• Troubleshoot and maintain data integrity issues across systems.
• Understand current data models pertaining to key data assets, help support improvement and simplify data models for analytical operations.
• Support Data Governance initiatives by working with system owners and gathering business rules across systems pertaining to data assets.

Within 12 months, you will:

• Build and maintain all the reports and dashboards in the BI platform.
• Work on strategic projects and Business Analytics initiatives to inform business decisions.
• Proactively define metrics in support of strategic goals and work closely with leaders and stakeholders at all levels to support teams to derive actionable insights from data.
• Serve as an analytics partner to the business by driving data literacy efforts and help improve the adoption of data across the organization.
• Support Data Governance initiatives.
• Manage administration of the BI Platform.

About You

• Bachelor’s Degree in an analytical field (e.g., Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Business or a related field). Master’s Degree is a plus.
• 3+ years of prior experience in business intelligence, business analysis, strategy, analytics and/or equivalent.
• Good business acumen, experience with business measures, metrics, and KPIs.
• Exceptional SQL skills that include – Data Aggregation, Slicing and Dicing data, window functions, sub queries, data transformation, and querying across multiple sources of data.
• Advanced Excel skills are required. Experience with Sisense, Tableau, Power BI or a similar BI Platform is required.
• Experience in Python or R (or other programming languages) is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and dimensional data modeling and experience working in a cloud data warehouse is a plus. 
• Proven track record of using data to drive business decisions including the ability to structure problems for analysis, analyze the data, and provide actionable recommendations through effective and compelling storytelling.
• Exposure to end-to-end enterprise business processes across Marketing, Customer Acquisition, Sales, Customer Success, Renewal, Professional Services, Product / Usage Analytics, Finance, etc. in a cloud-based business model.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization, with both technical and non-technical audiences.

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At Ellevation, we develop world-class software to help educators serve the fastest growing population of K-12 students: English Learners (ELs). Ellevation helps school districts transform their Multilingual Learner programs and ensure all students can achieve their highest aspirations. Our product suite includes a best-in-class data and instructional planning platform, resources to build teacher capacity, and student-facing programs to teach academic language.

We are a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company partnering with over 1,200 school districts and more than 3 million current and former English Learners. Over the next five years, we plan to double the number of ELs we serve and drive measurable outcomes for students. Ellevation merged with Curriculum Associates in 2021 to accelerate impact for Multilingual Learners. Our company continues to operate independently and is well-capitalized to support our ambitious social and financial objectives.

In addition to our great benefits and competitive salaries, here are some things that make us unique:

+ Mission-driven organization were team members are empowered to make a significant impact

+ Opportunities to join DEIB-focused groups and support building a culture of belonging 

+ Professional development and growth opportunities

+ Company and team offsites in various cities across the United States

+ Collaborative workspace in the heart of Boston - a stone's throw from many central T stops (Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and Aquarium). Free snacks, beverages, and local organic fruit provided

+ Remote and in-person engagement opportunities, including happy hours, themed events, and competitions + Remote and in-person wellness programming to support team’s mental and physical wellbeing

Learn more about our team in our Culture Deck.

Here at Ellevation, we champion diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values a range of ideas and opinions. 

We believe in building a culture where productivity can flourish, one that is empathetic, respectful, and inclusive. We are proud to have been recognized in prior years as “Best Tech Workplace for Diversity” by the Timmy Awards for investing in training around inclusive behaviors, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback across the company. We are encouraged by our progress, but there’s more work to be done.

Additional Information: Ellevation operates under Curriculum Associates, LLC, an Equal Opportunity Employer. Curriculum Associates, LLC will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law. Curriculum Associates, LLC will grant employment, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law. Such action shall include, but not be limited to, the following: employment, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.

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