Contract: Data Analyst, Operations

Contract: Data Analyst, Operations

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Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. 

Last year, more than $3.3 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.


Work/Project Scope:

  • Understand data infrastructure (Snowflake/PostgreSQL/Presto), product strategy, and our business model.
  • Work with Operations and Product teams to become intimately familiar with the challenge they are trying to solve.
  • Proactively use data to solve those problems and over time become the data-driven guide for your stakeholders on which problems they should be solving.
  • Communicate clear, complete, and actionable insights. Drive implementations based on those insights.
  • Contribute to improving the nuanced dynamics inherent to a double-sided marketplace. Deliver undiscovered insights that compel changes in corporate strategy and product decisions.
  • Build executive-facing dashboards that provide partners with self-serve access to key performance indicators
  • Partner with the Leadership Team, FP&A, and the larger Analytics community in asking difficult questions about the inner workings of our marketplace, specifically as they relate to Trust & Safety, and then leading the effort to answer those questions.

Must Haves(Required Skills): 

  • Advanced SQL (write clean, well-commented, highly performant scripts that are deployed in an ETL platform)
  • Data visualization (Looker & LookML experience preferred)
  • Python (preferred), R, or other scripting language - either in a data-science or programming context A/B testing (Design and evaluate tests to incrementally improve product)
  • Strong understanding of statistics - including modeling and forecasting
  • Curiosity, proactivity, determination, follow-through, and accountability

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   

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