Data Analyst, Zearn
$75-85k
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Online math learning platform
Open for applications
Online math learning platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$75-85k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To inspire generations of children who love learning math.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- The Data Analyst at Zearn will create analyses and reports that empower teams across the organization to make better, faster, and more informed decisions to advance Zearn’s mission: helping all children learn and love math. You’ll work as part of the team to optimize and maintain the data models that power your analyses and visualizations
- You’ll operate at the intersection of data infrastructure, analytics, and storytelling, ensuring that Zearn’s data is accurate, accessible, and actionable. In partnership with other teams across Zearn, you’ll measure impact, communicate with partners and funders, and scale success. This is achieved by:
- 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
- Example Problems to be Solved:
- When an external partner or internal stakeholder has a question, what's the right data to help them answer it?
- As we expand our reporting to meet stakeholder needs, how can we keep our growing suite of reports and reporting tools usable and maintainable?
- How can we use automated tests and supplemental outputs to make data quality checks easier?
- When someone reports data that looks strange to them: Is it a bug? If not, why is the data like that?
- What are the common difficulties and pain-points for users of our reports? How can we alleviate them?
Our take
Zearn’s top-rated math learning platform, made by teachers for teaching, provides children with built-in differentiated support to better their learning of maths.
Zearn learnt that the closure of schools during the pandemic caused children, particularly of low-income families, to participate less with the learning platform. Zearn now leads the push to make up for the missed learning of these students.
A non-profit, Zearn is not driven by money but by educational success of kids. The digital platform recognizes the importance of role models and children seeing themselves in their learning, therefore platforms diverse in-site educators. And daily diagnostics provide bespoke data that flags when kids are progressing or when they need additional intervention.
Funding, including from the Gates Foundation, continues the development of Zearn’s data analytics capacity to more effectively support children's learning.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage so you can work with peace of mind
- Retirement: 401(k) retirement plan that allows for pre-tax and roth contributions including an employer match
- Generous PTO: We believe in working hard and taking a well deserved break. That's why we offer a generous holiday schedule, including a 2-week paid winter break, and a flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Shalinee Sharma
(Co-Founder & CEO)Before founding Zearn in 2012, Sharma spent more than a decade at Bain & Co. leading work for clients in various sectors including technology and education.
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