(This is a remote position with preference given to candidates residing in the continental United States.)

Who we are

What if the most important life decisions could be made more wisely?

We're the company that's showing millions of families how good guidance can materially change life outcomes.

To make good guidance possible, we focus on consumer technology, encompassing everything from innovative applications of machine learning to elegant data-driven experiences to non-exploitative social media and a fast-growing marketplace—all while staying true to a distinctly human purpose: turning crucial milestones into life-changing opportunities.

Our best known brand, CollegeVine, is revolutionizing the high school to college transition period. In contrast to just a few years ago, families can now explore schools efficiently, make the admissions process less lonely and stressful by connecting with peers, learn from the best admissions experts for free via livestreams, and construct school lists with known acceptance risk profiles thanks to our ML models. Using the CollegeVine platform, millions of students from all walks of life are making better decisions every year and finding new, valuable opportunities—all for free.

And this is just the start. Our vision is ambitious: to be the lifelong guidance platform for the next generation. We're growing rapidly and can't wait to meet mission-oriented teammates like yourself!

About the role

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on our data and deliver insights that drive the business forward through analyses and ad-hoc queries
• Own the development and improvement of dashboards that will be used throughout the company to monitor key metrics and supercharge customer support
• Help shape how all of our product teams conduct A/B tests to ensure we're maximizing learnings and building the best product for our families
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to power our machine learning models

Your Skills

There are lots of skills that will make you a great data analyst. We've listed a few that we think will be particularly useful, but if you don’t feel like you perfectly match all of them, please apply anyway! We’d love to hear your story and find out why you’re a great fit.

• Technical Skills:
  • Experience working with real-world data
  • Familiarity with a scripting language such as R, Python, Julia, etc.
  • Some experience with SQL
  • Familiarity with a data visualization library (ggplot2, matplotlib, etc.)
  • Some experience with a dashboarding toolkit (Shiny, Streamlit, etc.) or a BI tool (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.) a plus
• Analytical Skills:
  
  • Passionate about using data to discover insights and drive product innovation
  • A love for telling stories with data through the use of data visualization and dashboards
  • Curious about coming up with clever ways to solve difficult analytical problems
  • Strong foundational understanding of statistics (especially hypothesis testing) and some machine learning knowledge are pluses

Our Stack

We use a lot of tools for doing data science and data analysis. Below are a few of the big ones. We don't expect you to know your way around all of these tools immediately, but you'll become familiar with them in no time!

• R (especially the Tidyverse) for all things data science
• Postgres + Redshift for anything database or warehouse related
• Domo for all things dashboarding
• Google Analytics + Heap for user analytics
• CircleCI / Github Actions + Docker + Heroku / Amazon EC2 for deploying models, jobs, and Shiny dashboards
• Github for version control

Why you'll love working at CollegeVine

• Enjoy actually meaningful work: Spare yourself the dread of having to do mental gymnastics about your company's mission by working on something that's high impact and clearly beneficial for society.
• Iterate quickly and see the impact of your decisions and hard work: You'll find that the teammates who you serve are not only appreciative, and also celebrate your ideas and innovations.
• Be part of a strong consumer brand: We've been closing the guidance gap in the United States since 2013 and have one of the most valuable brands in the higher education attainment space. Mention you work at CollegeVine to any college-bound family and see their faces light up.
• Contribute to a mindful remote culture with real flexibility: We do remote right and can't wait to talk to you about it. If you find a team you love, working on a mission you find meaningful, then why let caring for a loved one, moving cross-country, venturing abroad, or even living on a boat stop you?

CollegeVine was founded in 2013 in Cambridge, MA and reaches over 10 million families annually who are in the high school-to-college or college-to-career phases. Our roots are in delivering near-peer mentorship at scale, which has since evolved to delivering lifelong guidance with a focus on data and technology. We have raised over $42m in venture funding from dedicated investors such as Morningside Technology Ventures (Xiaomi, TikTok), the founding partner of 5Y Capital, Fidelity, University Ventures, and more. In 2020, after years of being a remote-friendly company, CollegeVine became a fully remote company centered on Eastern Time with a diverse cast of team members based predominantly in the United States, but also around the world.