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Zearn · 3 hours ago

Data Analyst

Zearn is a nonprofit educational organization focused on inspiring children to love learning math. The Data Analyst will create analyses and reports to empower teams, ensuring data is accurate, accessible, and actionable while collaborating with various stakeholders to drive informed decisions and measure impact.

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
Developing and maintaining data infrastructure, ensuring Zearn’s analytics foundation is reliable, scalable, and usable
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

Data analysisSQLPythonData visualizationData governanceGrowth mindsetStrategic thinkingClarity in communicationCross-functional collaboration

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
Short- and long-term disability
Life insurance
401K matching
Parental leave
Generous Holiday policy
Flexible PTO policy

Company

The only curriculum top-rated by EdReports that unites hands-on instruction and immersive digital learning.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
unknown
Key Investors
AccelerateNewSchools Venture Fund
2023-05-25Grant
2016-05-05Grant

Leadership Team

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Dave Levin
Co-Founder & Board Member
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Alexis Melisi
Manager, Office of the CEO
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