About Kami
Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 70 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!
You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!
The Opportunity
As a Data Analyst, you will conduct and present analyses of data to drive decision-making in our business and to meet the needs of our customers.
What You’ll Do
- Collect, clean and analyse data from various sources, including app usage, user feedback, and external data sources, to identify trends and patterns in student learning and app usage and to monitor performance for company goals.
- Contribute to data models based on transformations of raw data to be building blocks that enable educational and business insights.
- Assist with the development of bespoke internal tools or other data engineering tasks from time to time, as needed by current business priorities.
- Prototype and develop reports for educators to help them understand their and their students’ performance, progress and challenges.
- Communicate insights and findings clearly and informatively to relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with a wide range of team members including data engineering, sales, marketing and customer success, to understand requirements for data analyses.
- Follow, implement and make recommendations on data governance policies and procedures.
- Continually improve relevant knowledge and skills in programming, statistics, analytics tools and other common data practices.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, data technologies and education technology, and recommend improvements to the company’s data systems.
What You’ll Bring
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and at least three years’ experience in a heavily quantitative discipline including programming experience
- Extensive expertise in tools and techniques in statistics and data analytics
- Advanced coding proficiency in SQL, and in technical computing languages such as Python, Julia, R and/or Stata with libraries relevant to data analytics (e.g. dataframes)
- Excellent command of using writing and data visualisation to present analytics findings with clarity and insight
- Extensive expertise in data cleaning, manipulation and transformation methods
- Ability to analyse complex problems and break them down into smaller components to facilitate defining clear specifications
- Excellent communication skills to work effectively with teams across the business and distil project requirements from stakeholder requests
- Strategic thinking and ability to contribute to the long-term data vision of the business
Why Kami?
We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have
- A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
- High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
- Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
- A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
- Happy customers: Helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.
- Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.
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What We Do
We come to work everyday to help foster a positive learning journey for everyone. Kami was developed in Aotearoa, New Zealand by four university friends who decided to make a difference. Ten years later, we’ve grown into a team of over 100 Kami-leons with a shared goal of supporting classroom heroes and leveling the playing field so that all students, no matter their age, grade, or ability, can love learning. We’re proud to have been named one of Time magazine’s most influential companies in 2022 and included in the Deloitte Fast 50 as the fastest growing company and fastest growing exporter in 2021. Our investors include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable things — we’re well on-track to proving it, too. Our company culture embraces diversity, compassion, transformation, and most importantly, fun! With these values, we're working to add a little magic to education so that teachers and students can achieve so much more together. We thrive in an encouraging environment where people can share ideas, generate solutions, and grow. Join us in building the future of education. Get in touch at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!
