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.

Responsibilities:

• You will report to the Sr. Manager of Data (based in California, USA) and partner with product and/or business teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities. 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.
• Balance meeting the current needs of the business with long-term progress on the analytics team strategy for a robust, democratized, data-driven organization
• Drive analytics projects and experiments from end to end. Translate a business question into an analytical framework, efficiently produce reliable data, generate insights through analysis, and effectively communicate recommended actions.
• Plan, execute and analyze AB test experiments to establish causal relationships between our product features and business results
• Identify trends and find opportunities to unlock new sources of growth and student success for Udacity.

Requirements:

• Bring 4+ years of professional analytics or analytics-related experience and a team-player attitude, with a demonstrated track record of leading data projects
• You solve problems in your sleep. Applying critical thinking and a willingness to dive into the data, you produce immediate value while still keeping an eye on long-term strategy and scalability
• Deploy advanced skills in SQL and data visualization/storytelling
• Effective communication and people skills with the ability to influence diverse audiences and build strong partnerships.
• You take ownership seriously and hold yourself accountable to always deliver in a reliable manner that builds trust. You thrive at a fast pace while managing multiple work streams

Preferred Experience:

• You are a curious self-starter, driven to solve problems and find answers. You take charge and flourish when meeting a challenge.
• Knowledge of proper A/B testing practices and statistical experiment design
• As an inspiring analyst, you combine business acumen with the application of analytics
• You work well with multiple analytics & visualization tools, particularly Chartio 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
• You enjoy working in a highly dynamic environment where you have a strong voice and your decisions have a significant impact