Study.com was founded by Adrián Ridner and Ben Wilson to open the door to the life-changing impact of Education for all. Today, Study.com is the leading online learning platform helping over 30 million learners and educators on Study.com each month break through.

Our mission is rooted in the belief that information is the ultimate equalizer, and education is key to upward mobility. Study.com helps learners of all ages excel academically and close skills gaps. Every minute two learners enrolls in a course on Study.com and our College Accelerator solution, has collectively saved students over $200 million in college tuition.

At Study.com, you’ll join a team making a big impact in a cross-functional, collaborative environment where team members wear different hats and regularly interact with senior leadership. We get things done and move quickly.

As a member of the Study.com team, you’ll empower millions of learners to achieve their education and career goals. You’ll also be part of a company dedicated to contributing to society. Study.com has donated over $25 million in-kind value across social impact programs, including Working Scholars and Keys to the Classroom, matching employee contributions to non-profit organizations, student scholarships and supporting schools and districts during the pandemic.

Study.com’s team members, together with our Study Studio network of instructors, subject matter experts, video animators, and editors, have developed over 2 million learning materials on our platform. This includes micro-lessons, videos, flashcards, lesson plans, worksheets and more, fueling tens of millions hours of learning engagement a year.

Study.com’s work and company culture have been recognized by:

• Inc. Best Place to Work
• FastCompany Most Innovative Company
• Fortune Great Places to Work – Best Workplaces in the Bay Area
• Golden Bridge Awards – Gold Winner Social Responsibility

As an education technology leader, Study.com owes much of its success to its data driven approach. We help over thirty million learners and instructors on Study.com each month, improving their user experience and driving growth by collecting, storing and presenting massive amounts of data that are crucial to everyday business decisions. We're looking for a Data Analyst to join our growing team. The ideal candidate is passionate about digging into data, understanding and explaining the stories the data tell as well as helping others solve problems, gain insights, and make smart decisions rooted in data. Additionally, our team built and maintains the entire data and ETL pipeline, so an inclination toward engineering is highly preferred.

Come join us on our mission and make a difference.

Responsibilities

• As part of the Business Intelligence team, own and maintain the entire data warehouse, including 50 - 100 million events coming through a Kafka queue each day, a 15 TB relational data warehouse and an integration with Google BigQuery.
• Work in a cross-functional team and be the team's point person for any data related tasks (ETLing new data, analysis, visualizations, etc.)
• Monitor and analyze the team’s A/B tests and proactively communicate key insights within your team and to external stakeholders.
• Be the voice of data by supporting the team's product owner in finding business opportunities, defining KPIs, and setting team goals.
• Actively establish processes and build tools to make data more accessible to everyone.
• Use your knowledge of statistics to support the Business Intelligence team in building and maintaining machine learning models (logistic regressions, neural networks, k-means clustering, etc.) that drive a significant portion of our revenue.
• Help and teach others throughout the company to better use and understand our data.
• Present findings and insights to teammates, stakeholders, and leadership.

Requirements

• A passion for learning and a willingness to pick up whatever you need to get the job done
• 2+ years of experience in a data analyst role, experience with web analytics is a plus
• Solid SQL experience (we use MySQL and BigQuery)
• Strong analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions based on data
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while juggling multiple projects
• Solid experience in Excel for data analysis and visualization
• BS in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, or similar fields
• Good interpersonal communication and presentation skills
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate
• Some programming experience. We primarily use Java/Groovy and Python, with some legacy code written in R.

Preferred Requirements

• Reporting and Business Intelligence experience (Tableau, Looker, QlikView, Microstrategy, etc)
• Hands-on experience with advanced statistical concepts, such as cluster analysis, singular value decomposition, stochastic gradient descent, and Bayesian methods
• Experience using an ETL tool (Pentaho, Talend, SSIS, etc.) on large datasets (terabytes in size)
• Knowledge of web analytics software and best practices
• Masters Degree or PhD