About Us
Udacity is now an Accenture company, and exciting things are happening! 🚀 We are on a mission of forging futures in tech through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey.
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 Principal Data Analyst to help advance that vision as part of our business analytics group. You will work with stakeholders to 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 partners 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.
Your Responsibilities:- You will report to the Director of Data and lead high-impact analyses of Udacity’s curriculum and learner behavior to optimize content strategy, ensure skills alignment with industry needs, and drive measurable outcomes for learners and enterprise clients
- Lead the development of a strategic analytics roadmap for Udacity’s content organization, aligning insights with learning, product, and business goals.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to define and monitor KPIs that measure the health, efficacy, and ROI of our curriculum across both B2C and enterprise portfolios
- Centralize and synthesize learner feedback, CX signals, and performance data to identify content pain points and inform roadmap prioritization.
- Develop scalable methods to assess content effectiveness by integrating learner outcomes, usage behavior, and engagement metrics.
- Contribute to building AI-powered systems that classify learner feedback, learning styles, and success predictors.
- Act as a thought partner to leaders across Content and Product by communicating insights clearly and influencing strategic decisions.
- Lead cross-functional analytics initiatives and mentor peers and junior analysts to elevate data maturity across the organization.
- 8+ years experience in analytics or data science roles with a focus on product/content insights, ideally in edtech or SaaS.
- Advanced SQL and experience with data warehouses (Athena, Presto, Redshift, etc.).
- Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, machine learning, and automation.
- Experience with dashboards and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, or similar).
- Strong knowledge of experimentation, A/B testing, and causal inference frameworks.
- Proven ability to lead high-impact analytics projects independently and influence stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills—able to translate technical insights into business recommendations
- Familiarity with Tableau, Amplitude, dbt, Airflow, or similar tools
- Experience working with large-scale sequential or clickstream data
- Exposure to NLP, embeddings, or GPT-based analysis for feedback classification
- Understanding of learning science or instructional design principles
Benefits:
Experience a rewarding work environment with Udacity's perks and benefits!
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- Personalized career development
- Unlimited access to Udacity Nanodegrees
Compensation at Udacity, an Accenture company, varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Udacity, an Accenture company, will provide a reasonable range of compensation.
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What We Do
By training the world’s workforce in the careers of the future, we help companies, governments and people transform their outcomes through cutting edge technology education. Our innovative courses and Nanodegree programs give students practitioner level, high value skills to accelerate their careers in technology. At Udacity, we are dedicated to transforming the world by providing better access to jobs, better pay, and better employment opportunities.
Why Work With Us
Over a decade ago, we upended the traditional education system by creating direct to student, tailored, end-to-end learning paths for those seeking to learn the next generation, practitioner level, in demand technology skills. Our Nanodegrees are co-developed with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft.
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