Amplify
is hiring
Senior Data Analyst
About Our Company
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and formative assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment and intervention products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of their students. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states.
Job Description & Responsibilities
As a Data Analyst at Amplify, you will join a talented team who seeks empirical answers to crucial questions about Amplify’s customers, operations, finances and products. You’ll play an active role in using data to inform business strategy, and product development. In doing so, you will have an impact on the lives of millions of students across the globe.
What You’ll Do
Our Data Analytics teams build reporting frameworks and narratives that drive strategic decisions across every department at Amplify. You’ll be working with data scientists and engineers to provide clean, accurate, reliable metrics and reports for our products and internal business partners.
- Impress the toughest customers around – students – through analytics which drive the design and development cycle for fun and compelling apps
Help school administrators build great schools by:
discovering trends in usage of our reporting applications
providing the visibility our supply chain teams need to make sure educational materials arrive in full and on time
forecasting customer support demand to ensure that no administrator has to wait on hold when they need help
Make life better for passionate Marketing, Sales and Operations teams by building cohesive and action-oriented Looker or Tableau dashboards which turn impressions into opportunities, opportunities into new customers, and new customers into long term relationships.
Example Projects You Might Work On
- Be a key driver of Amplify’s financial success by analyzing cross-selling patterns to distill lessons from those regions and product mixes where we are seeing success to formulate new strategies.
- Shape Amplify’s strategic priorities by providing the Amplify executive team with deep insights into key metrics like Annual Recurring Revenue and Effective Price.
- Empower customer success managers with usage and progress reporting which allows them to proactively support their districts implementation of Amplify’s products.
- Partner with our Professional Development team to reduce their cost of delivery by analyzing cost trends and drivers based on delivery method, geographic location, and session type.
Requirements
Basic Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a data analyst or related role.
- Expertise in SQL, especially its use in data analysis tasks.
- Demonstrated ability to turn vague business problems into projects that data analysis and business intelligence can address.
- Proven technical leadership in project delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to find the narrative in complex data environments and tailor that narrative for diverse audiences.
- Experience building and maintaining enterprise Business Intelligence reports in tools like Looker or Tableau.
- Experience designing and maintaining systems of reports including making decisions like: a new report should be created, an existing report should be extended, an existing report should be deprecated.
- Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners.
- A drive to understand data and key performance metrics and their relevance to our business and product decisions.
- Familiarity with ETL/ELT pipelines and related tooling; understanding of relational data models, dimensional data models, and metric creation.
- Experience working in agile teams and leading team rituals like Storytime, Story Splitting, Story Estimation, and Retrospectives.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack (Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt).
- Background in education or in edtech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
What we offer
What We Offer
Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross annualized salary range for this role is $112,000 - $128,000. This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.