Data Analyst

About Relay Payments

Relay Payments is building a modern digital payment network to revolutionize the trucking and logistics industries. Trusted by more than 500,000 drivers, 100,000 carriers, and 2,000 truck stops nationwide, Relay has brought efficiency and automation to an industry historically reliant on cash, checks, and cards. Relay has joined forces with industry leaders like Pilot, Love’s, Maverik, Schneider, Coyote Logistics, Lineage Logistics, and others to provide secure, reliable over-the-road transactions. Founded in 2019, our Atlanta-based fintech includes more than 150 team members and has won awards for product innovation, customer service, and organizational culture. We are a proud sponsor of NASCAR and William Byron from Hendrick Motorsports for 2025. For more information about Relay, visit relaypayments.com.

About The Role

As a Data Analyst at Relay Payments, you will play a critical role in empowering data-driven decision-making across the company. You will develop a deep understanding of our business intelligence layer and serve as a trusted partner to teams across the organization helping to quickly answer questions, uncover insights, and drive clarity through data.

Working cross-functionally with leaders and stakeholders across GTM, Operations, Finance, Accounting, and Product, you will help define goals, measure performance, and conduct deep-dive analyses that influence strategy. You will own and refine key data definitions to ensure consistency and scalability, and build intuitive dashboards that make insights accessible to the entire business.

• Collaborate with peers and cross-functional stakeholders to scope, plan, and execute data initiatives that are critical to the success of the organization, with a strong bias toward simple, maintainable, and easy-to-understand solutions.
• Partner with internal teams to quickly answer ad hoc data questions, providing timely insights and clarity to support decision-making.
• Work closely with leadership to define business goals, track progress against key metrics, build board reporting, and perform deep-dive analyses to uncover trends and opportunities.
• Design, develop, and maintain a trusted analytics and data modeling layer that enables fast, consistent answers through dashboards, SQL exploration, and emerging AI-driven analytics tools.
• Integrate Relay’s data with systems such as Salesforce, ensuring insights and metrics are embedded directly into the tools where teams operate day-to-day.
• Conduct peer reviews of code, models, and analytics deliverables, fostering a culture of high quality, shared ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges across our data stack, helping ensure reliability as the business grows.

About You

• You have 4+ years of experience in a Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or similar role.
• You bring deep SQL expertise, with the ability to build reusable, well-tested, and high-performance data transformations. Experience with DBT is a strong plus.
• You have a proven track record of developing intuitive, user-facing dashboards in Looker (or similar BI tools) that help teams self-serve insights.
• You enjoy working closely as a strategic partner with business stakeholders, and you take pride in empowering teams with data that makes the company run smoother and faster.
• You are thoughtful about data modeling and structuring analytics layers for consumers, with an emphasis on simplicity, clarity, and ease of use.
• You are comfortable using Python for data analysis and exploration, and can contribute to maintaining or troubleshooting data pipelines when needed.
• You’ve worked with modern data stacks and are excited to operate in environments like ours (Redshift, Airflow, DBT, Looker).
• You can communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• You can diagnose technical problems, understand the root cause, and deliver a simple solution to resolve the issue.
• You apply statistical thinking to deep-dive analyses, helping identify root causes, evaluate performance, and inform business decisions. Experience with basic modeling or forecasting techniques is a plus.

Our Core Values

• Invent the Future - We embrace the spirit of invention, the idea that there’s always a better way. Together we dream big, fail fast, drive forward, and find creative solutions where others see roadblocks. We prize grit, resilience and speed as we work to transform our industry and to move it into the future.
  
• Own the Work - Our work is a source of personal pride and fulfillment. We’re here because we relish a challenge and enjoy the exercise of proactively identifying and solving problems. We understand the power of accountability and are in constant pursuit of “more and better” for our customers, our partners and ourselves.
  
• We’re in it Together - We’re all in, committed to, and driven by our shared ambition and vision; we understand that alignment and collaboration are imperative. We set aside our ego to actively sync with one another, becoming greater than the sum of our parts. We are consistently open and generous with information, clear, concise and direct in our communication.

Why Relay Payments

• This is a game-changing chance to join one of Atlanta’s best-funded, most well-positioned fintech start-ups.
• We are generously sharing equity in the company - everyone’s an owner!
• We invest in your future with our 401K match program and dedicated personal/professional development funds. 
• Do what’s best for your mental, physical and emotional health with our “Be Reasonable” PTO policy.
• We offer competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance.
• And lots, lots more!

Relay Payments is an equal opportunity employer. At Relay Payments, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.