Principal Analyst, Upstart

• Strong analytical and quantitative background with at least 8+ years professional experience, preferably with meaningful experience in marketing, growth or product analytics or data science
• Proficiency in data analysis tools (SQL, Python / R, Looker / Mode / Tableau, etc.)
• Strong experience with causality and interference modeling to evaluate experiment results and understand business trends
• Strong communication,with experience deriving actionable insights from analysis with a well-balanced rigorous and creative approach to solving difficult and unstructured problems
• Degree in Analytics, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative field

Desirable

• As a Principal Analyst, Growth Analytics at Upstart, you’ll be responsible for driving understanding, insights, decision making and data infrastructure relating to acquiring and retaining borrowers on our platform
• You’ll partner with our Growth Marketing, Product, Engineering and Machine Learning teams to drive Upstart’s growth
• Partner cross-functionally with channel owners, marketing, product and engineering leaders to set the growth strategy and analytics roadmap for multiple products at Upstart
• Effectively use analytics tools to understand user behavior, funnel performance and the outcome of our growth efforts, and make proactive recommendations on how to grow effectively
• Develop appropriate analytical frameworks to drive better decision-making, such as attribution, lifetime value, ROI analyses, segmentation, etc
• Design and conduct quantitative analysis to test hypotheses about our users and the way they interact with our product, and collaborate with partners to prioritize the right problems and opportunities
• Collaborate with analytics engineering and software engineering to continuously uplevel our growth data capabilities, making new data available as the business expands, and accelerate time to insights
• Coach and mentor growth analysts on the team