Data Analyst

Data Analyst

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At Udacity, the Analytics Team is deploying data to inform and empower the company with insight, to drive student success and business value. We are looking for a Data Analyst to help advance that vision as the dedicated data partner to our Product and Consumer stakeholders. You’ll help inform their current initiatives and long-term roadmap with data.  You will be a key part of a dynamic data team that works daily with strategic stakeholders to deliver data, prioritize resources and scale our impact.  This is a chance to affect thousands of students around the world who come to Udacity to improve their lives, and your success as part of a world-class analytics organization will be visible up to the highest levels of the company.

What You'll Do:

  • You will report to the Sr. Manager of Data (based in California, USA) and , and collaborate closely with Data Team partners & stakeholders as a key partner for Udacity’s Content development operations. You will work closely with business leaders to ensure that objectives and growth are supported by your data work.
  • Support stakeholder needs with: reporting, KPI definition, performance measurement, and deeper analytical insights. Achieve scale by establishing best practices, automating processes, and identifying structural needs.
  • Manage, organize and build our content data infrastructure from dispersed, sometimes messy data, for analytical use. Come up with efficient data management techniques, and ways to automate if possible. You will also help to maintain, sometimes manually, data cleaning and mapping processes in place, as related to content data infrastructure.
  • Work with partners on building and updating dashboards, with heavy emphasis on accuracy & scale, and designed for clarity.  Your work will empower the tracking of trends and identifications of opportunities in our Content development process.
  • Balance meeting the current needs of your business partners with long-term progress on strategic initiatives

About You:

  • Bring 2+ years of professional analytics or analytics-related experience and a team-player attitude, with a demonstrated track record of executing data projects
  • Deploy strong skills in SQL and data visualization / storytelling
  • Effective communication and people skills with the ability to reliably manage data projects asynchronously.  Fluent in English 
  • You take ownership seriously and hold yourself accountable to always deliver in an accurate manner that builds trust. You thrive at a fast pace and managing multiple workstreams.
  • You solve problems in your sleep. Applying critical thinking and a willingness to dive into the details, you produce effective solutions at scale.
  • You are comfortable and flexible with the needs of being part of a global team

Preferred Experience:

  • You are a curious self-starter, driven to solve problems and find answers. You take charge and flourish when meeting a challenge.
  • You enjoy the challenge of building scalable data solutions that bring structure to our data culture
  • As an inspiring analyst, you learn business acumen to combine with you data skills
  • You work well with multiple analytics & visualization tools, particularly Tableau and Amplitude, and have a familiarity with aggregating data sources and with statistical analysis tools (i.e. Python, R, Stata)
  • You are excited to ask questions, push boundaries and follow where data leads in pursuit of new opportunities
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