Data Analyst

Data Analyst

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ABOUT US

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families. 

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. As a rapidly growing tech startup, we look for the best talent out there and try to stay out of their way. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Bestow offers endless professional growth opportunities. The people who succeed here look for problems and solutions. They are both passionate about their ideas and open to having their mind changed. 

In the end, we value the same things our customers do: family. So we strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers.  It’s a model that helped us land the #2 spot on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 list. Boom!


Bestow is searching for a Data Analyst to join our fast-paced and growing data & analytics team. We are looking for someone with experience with SQL/Python, business intelligence tools, KPI tracking, and data to uncover actionable insights. In this role, you will be working alongside the data & analytics team to build a robust and comprehensive analytics practice to drive decision-making within Bestow. If all of this is in your wheelhouse, we would like to hear from you!

The Bestow Analytics team is a close-knit group of super-smart all-stars providing the opportunity to grow in your craft and mentor others. We work closely with data engineering and data science, which uniquely encourages good data practices and flexible career growth. We are a test and learn the culture and continually run experiments to test hypotheses. Be ready to jump in to solve challenging problems quickly and use data to answer questions and show performance.  


Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX or Remote (US) #LI-Remote

Your Day to Day

    • Create reports and dashboards that communicate the story behind the data to key business stakeholders
    • Conduct exploratory analysis with various datasets to uncover actionable insights to drive strategy and decision making; clearly communicate these findings with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company
    • Monitor key KPIs across the company and build analysis to explain any deviations from expected thresholds
    • Increase BI tool adoption within the company: create training materials, contribute to training sessions, partner with all teams within an organization to ensure they have the tools they need to be successful
    • Write SQL queries that clean, join, and extract data from our data warehouse to put together various types of analysis
    • Collaborate with the data engineering team to access and utilize datasets and develop data structures to support the business
    • Partner with data science team on deeper analysis and to build predictive models
    • Work closely with internal partners in underwriting, product, engineering, customer experience, finance, and other teams to ensure data integrity and consistency in reporting

A Little About You

    • Insatiable curiosity, continual learner
    • A Minimum of 2 years professional experience in data or analytics, or commensurate experience
    • Experience working with relational databases and data warehouses like BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake
    • Strong ability in SQL (CTEs, complex join logic, and query optimization)
    • Exceptional quantitative skills and fluency with data and its interpretation and impact on business strategy
    • Strong communication skills and experience working with multiple team leads across the company.
    • You will be working with technical and non-technical colleagues alike, so clear communications are critical. 
    • You have effective time management skills, can self-lead projects, and know when to ask for help. 
    • You have demonstrated experience communicating complex concepts with data to non-technical audiences.
    • Experience with business intelligence tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Sisense, etc.)
    • Bonus if you have professional experience with Python 3
    • Great attention to detail and quality of work
    • Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field
    • Proactive attitude - do what you know to do without someone telling you to
    • US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas, nor employ residents outside of the United States at this time)

What We Can Offer to You

    • Competitive salary
    • Flexible schedule and work/life balance
    • 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
    • Office snacks and weekly team lunches
    • Team building events and activities
We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team. 

Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time.
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