Zearn · 9 hours ago
Data Analyst
Zearn is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to inspiring children to love learning math. The Data Analyst will create analyses and reports to empower teams across the organization, ensuring data is accurate, accessible, and actionable to advance Zearn's mission.
Education
Responsibilities
Driving insight generation and cross-functional enablement, transforming raw data into clear, actionable insights that drive decisions across Zearn
Partner with stakeholders across Zearn, with varying levels of data fluency, to define questions, conduct analyses, and communicate findings that guide strategy and execution
Translate complex data into clear narratives and recommendations, elevating the role of data in planning, prioritization, and measurement
Build analytical models and dashboards that track key performance metrics, ensuring leaders have the visibility they need to evaluate impact and inform next steps
Develop repeatable, high-impact analyses that reduce one-off data requests and increase analytical self-service across the organization
Partner with Software, Data Engineers, and Senior Analysts to improve data pipelines, documentation, and schema design
Establish and enforce data governance standards, ensuring quality, consistency, and accuracy across all reporting systems
Identify and address data reliability gaps, proactively improving data health and strengthening trust in analytics outputs
Implement repeatable or automated data quality checks to surface anomalies early and reduce downstream reporting errors
Own the ongoing design, iteration, and maintenance of dashboards and analytical tools, ensuring they remain accurate, usable, and aligned with Zearn's evolving priorities
Identify recurring questions or points of confusion in reporting and proactively improve metric definitions, visualizations, or documentation to increase clarity and adoption
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field preferred)
Familiarity with querying relational databases using languages such as SQL or Python
Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or R for data manipulation
A passion for education and using data to improve learning outcomes for students
Growth Mindset: If you don't know how to do something, try your best to figure it out, whether that means reading documentation, asking colleagues, or developing creative debugging queries. If you cause a disaster, work collaboratively with the team to develop better systems and guardrails to prevent it from recurring
Technical Mastery: You understand relational data structures, and can use Python or similar languages to automate workflows and analyses
Strategic Thinking: You understand how insights connect to business goals and help Zearn scale its impact
Clarity in Communication: You learn about the context of stakeholder requests so that you can translate complex analyses into insights that are salient for your audience. You recognize potential ambiguities and opportunities for misunderstandings in data requests and you communicate with stakeholders to resolve them
Cross-Functional Collaboration: You build strong partnerships with both technical and non-technical teams
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
Short- and long-term disability
Life insurance
401K matching
Parental leave
A generous Holiday policy
A flexible PTO policy
Company
Zearn
The only curriculum top-rated by EdReports that unites hands-on instruction and immersive digital learning.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
AccelerateNewSchools Venture Fund
2023-05-25Grant
2016-05-05Grant
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