Stride
is hiring
Data Analyst
About Our Company
At Stride, Inc. we support learners of all ages with inspired teachers and personalized experiences.
Everything comes back to learners. And not just the 56.6 million K–12 students — the 331 million Americans. Learning never stops. It’s the best means of growth throughout your life. But learning simply cannot be one-size-fits-all.
At Stride, we’re leading enormous and necessary change in a sector that’s left far too many behind. And it’s required us to challenge long-accepted beliefs and practices. With insight and input from learners, parents, teachers, administrators, boards of education, and policymakers, we continue to provide more effective ways to learn — focusing on building the skills and confidence learners need to make their way forward in life.
Because the more learners grow, the more we all benefit.
And the future holds vast opportunity — where learners are empowered to choose a path that unlocks their full potential.
Help us champion a fairer system that creates a stronger workforce and a stronger society.
Job Description & Responsibilities
The Data Analyst compiles data into reports, dashboards and apps into relevant data and visualizations needed for customers and internal stakeholders to accomplish key tasks and to meet program goals. The role should have a passion for connecting complex data analysis to meaningful practices. The role should have demonstrated experience communicating with various stakeholders. The data analyst should be self-motivated to solve emergent issues with the best available tools and is expected to work collaboratively with other team members and the broader team of data analysts across the company. The position will work closely with data owners and other analysts to understand the needs of stakeholders across the business. This includes preparation, design and execution of data models built to improve the academic and business outcomes of Learning Solutions and our partners.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Build data products to improve the performance of customers and the business;
- Design and help produce routine reporting of key data collaborating with the data owner and other analysts;
- Create compelling and easy to understand data visualizations that make the complex, simple to understand and relevant to consumers;
- Know where to find data and how to overcome issues with the data;
- Help others understand the context, uses and limitations of the data;
- Handle various ad-hoc reports that are requested throughout the normal course of business;
- Communicate information to stakeholders about program effectiveness and progress, both regularly and on an as-needed basis;
- Team player with positive, flexible attitude, integrity, and strong interpersonal skills; self-motivated and takes initiative to solve problems;
- Analyze data and provide solutions to address business challenges;
- Collaborate with other internal data, research and data science teams to optimize the experience, outcomes and identify new data products;
- Define, develop and implement best practices for data cleansing, validation and general quality control;
- Identify and understand user level security for dashboards and reports based on business requirements;
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to translate complex concepts and methodologies into easy-to-understand language
- Experience developing dashboards in business intelligence tools such as PowerBI
- Experience with PowerApps, SSRS reporting objects, Snowflake, DBT, Streamsets and/or Alation,
- Ability to communicate technology concepts effectively with technically proficient and non-technically proficient individuals
- Knowledge of programming standards and techniques, ideally with experience writing in SQL
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and in a group setting
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience with data analysis, modeling, design and documentation
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Effective customer service and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Experience in developing reports and/or dashboards
- Ability to manage and deliver on competing priorities
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time (e.g. team building and in-person collaboration)
- Ability to pass background check
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working in education with academic data sets
- Experience scripting in Python for ETL processes
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This is a home-based position
What we offer
Compensation and Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
We anticipate the salary range to be $60,000 to $129,000. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
