Our mission at Yay Lunch is simple: we make it easy to give our kids and yours healthy lunches they'll love, everyday.

We deliver real food made fresh daily directly to where your kids learn and play. We work with food partners who understand and uphold our mission to make healthier versions of food kids already love. We take care of lunch, so you can take care of them, yourself and the million other things on your to-do list.

We are Yay Lunch, a new business concept with the mission to provide healthy food for kids away from home, beginning with school lunches. Our mission is simple: deliver delicious, healthy lunches made by local vendors to kids at school in an easy, reliable, cost-effective way for parents. How do we do it? We curate menus with local vendors in each market, families order online, and we deliver fresh lunches daily to kids at school. Easy!

We're a startup which means we are agile, outgoing, quick on our feet, and eternally positive. Our business is exploding into new cities up and down the east coast, which means we're also pretty excited!

To enable this work, we are hiring a passionate individual contributor who will help take our analytics platform to the next level. Do you have great ideas and the enthusiasm to build them? Join our team! Together, we will brainstorm, collaborate, design and deliver solutions that get great kids great food, right when they need it most.

About The Team

We take our work seriously, while recognizing that work is just one part of being a real human. We rise and fall as a team.

In this role, we would expect there to be minimal travel, but expect to get your chance to periodically ride along with a Brand Ambassador, visit a food vendor, and to shadow a delivery to a school near you on a regular basis to stay in close contact with how our business works. This job is remote, but must be based in one of our existing markets: Atlanta, Maryland, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Virginia, or Washington D.C.

We firmly believe that talent comes in a great variety of forms from a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and lifestyles.

About The Role

The Senior Analyst will play an integral part in positioning Yay Lunch for continued success in the future. As an individual contributor, you will play a critical role in the development, improvement, and maintenance of data-driven decision-making through advanced data analysis and visualization tools, primarily using Snowflake SQL, Mode, dbt, GitHub. You will help shape company-wide analytics and lead efforts to create data-driven insights and support decision-making across the organization, working closely with stakeholders from multiple departments. You'll help support the evolution of a robust and scalable analytics platform.

The ideal candidate will be able to thrive in ambiguity, own and execute multiple concurrent deliverables (both hands-on as an individual contributor and by mentoring and guiding the team) while working effectively with executive leaders and stakeholders across the company. You'll ensure all stakeholder reporting needs are met in a repeatable and scalable way, while planning, delivering, and evolving our data management and reporting environment to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business and driving actionable insights that make a real impact on our business. We're looking for someone who can get really excited about driving positive business impact through data!

This is both a technical and informal technical leadership role: expect to be involved at all levels of projects.

Key Objectives

• Conduct in-depth analysis and provide actionable insights such as interactive dashboards and visualizations to address stakeholder requirements.
• Mentor and support junior analysts in developing their analytical skills and understanding of data tools
• Collaborate with team members to integrate data sources, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the organization
• Undertake specific initiatives to improve company data integrity
• Develop, maintain, and optimize data models using dbt

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-5 years of reporting & analytics experience
• Completed undergraduate degree in a quantitative field
• Advanced/Expert SQL skills, including complex queries, data manipulation, and optimization techniques
• Hands-on experience with reporting tools (such as Snowflake, Mode, Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Github, dbt, Google Analytics)
• A strong sense of personal humility
• Flexibility, curiosity, adaptability - we are a growing and changing data environment
• Ability to be effective in an organization whose staff all work remotely
• Strong project management, organizational skills and ability to engage stakeholders and meet deadlines for multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity
• High level of written and oral communication skills

Ideal But Not Required

• Masters or advanced degree in a quantitative field
• Experience with cloud warehouses, data transformation tools like dbt and other analytics languages such as Python
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g. computer science or natural sciences) and/or equivalent experience
• Experience creating predictive models of success based on past business performance
• Preference will be given to candidates in or near an existing Yay Lunch Market location