Data Analyst
We are NYC based, but remote friendly unless specified.
Hello, World! Codecademy is on a mission to build inspiring careers in technology through engaging, accessible, and interactive online coding education.
Our learners have gone on to start new jobs, launch new companies, and lead new lives thanks to their work with Codecademy, and our platform has transformed the way businesses develop and retain their teams.
Since 2011, our team has grown to over 200 employees serving 50+ million learners from 190+ countries. We’ve raised over $82M in venture capital funding from top investors including Prosus, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more--which gives us the capital to get stuff done in an impactful way.
Join us to help build a business that empowers tens of millions of people to lead better lives!
Overview:
As a Data Analyst, you'll be a part of the cross-functional team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers who support all things product analytics and experimentation at Codecademy. Through close partnerships with product owners and engineers across the organization, you'll use your analytics expertise to better understand how users engage with our platform, inform decision making, and influence future product development. You'll become an expert on our users and their journey, and use your expertise to advocate on their behalf across Codecademy.
Opportunity Highlights:
- Develop an expert understanding of how learners engage with Codecademy, and use that expertise to advocate for our learners across the organization.
- Partner with stakeholders to design and implement analytics strategies that support their development and business needs.
- Play an important role in supporting and leading all things data and product experimentation at Codecademy.
- Contribute to our analytics infrastructure by turning complex and sometimes ambiguous business requirements into effective analysis and reporting.
- Ensure product developments and changes are integrated into our existing data infrastructure and reporting tools, and when they don’t, build the necessary capabilities to adjust.
- Develop and maintain effective reporting in Looker and other BI tools to help stakeholders better understand our users and their businesses.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science and Data Engineering Team Members on a wide range of data projects.
- Identify opportunities for improvements, contribute to our documentation, and collaborate with the team and our end-users to develop and apply analytics and experimentation best practices.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Reputation as a user-obsessed data and analytics expert.
- A “Founder” mentality - relentless, resourceful, proactive, and results-oriented.
- 3 years of experience in an analytical role focused on digital/web products, Edtech, or subscription-based product analytics.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to determine how to best employ multiple data sets and analytical methods to answer user and product development questions.
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Hands-on experience supporting the development, execution and analysis of product experimentation (A/B/n testing, pre-post analysis, etc.)
- Experience communicating the results of an analysis or experiment to a wide variety of audiences.
- Proficiency with SQL and hands-on experience with modern BI tools like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and tight timelines.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Extensive product experimentation experience and experience with Optimizely or other web experimentation platforms.
- Direct experience working in Edtech or with learning-focused digital products.
- Experience with common Python analytics packages, such as pandas, scikit-learn, jupyter notebook, etc., or the equivalent in R.
- Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses, and exposure to common analytics engineering tools like Python, dbt, git, etc.
Target salary range for this job requisition is anticipated to be $82,000 - $105,000.
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MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:
Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.
Skillsoft partners to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success including Skillsoft learning content and the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform.
Learn more at www.skillsoft.com
At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of learners with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.