Business Operations Manager, Metabase
Finance & Analytics
$150-200k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations + Equity
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
Be an early applicant
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in other locations + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make an easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Role
Who you are
- You think in systems: you understand how pieces fit together, build reliable processes, and automate repetitive work
- You think in terms of numbers and are comfortable in a wide range of analytical domains, whether that’s financial modeling, doing intermediate statistical analysis, reviewing the methodology of external vendors, or transforming raw data
- You can spot inconsistencies quickly, and enjoy getting to the right answer. SQL experience strongly preferred (nice-to-have: analytics engineering experience)
- You know how to use AI to improve efficiency, and enjoy experimenting with novel applications of the technology. Just as importantly, you know the limitations of AI and don't use it as a substitute for your own thinking
- You learn fast. For example, you don't need to be an accountant, but you can learn the rules of accounting (or other specialist domains) and apply them to day-to-day problems
- You are adept at managing vendors, building strong relationships, and holding them accountable when needed
- You have strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail: you enjoy checking items off your checklist, and can seamlessly balance multiple threads of work
- Minimum 3–5 years experience, preferably in a high-growth startup
- Strong quantitative undergraduate degree (nice to have: MBA)
- Based in the US, Canada, or UK
- Low-ego attitude: no job should be too small or too large
- Nice-to-have: some familiarity with accounting principles or coursework
What the job involves
- Our Finance & Analytics team owns the authoritative view of Metabase's business performance, and the opinionated read on what's driving it. Internally, this is used to drive decisions; externally, this is used to meet our obligations to investors, auditors, and tax authorities
- We’re looking for a quantitative-minded generalist to lead a portfolio of analytical projects across the business and own an area of finance operations
- Your analytical projects will focus on how we measure and understand the broader business: establishing authoritative definitions for key metrics and investigating what’s driving changes in the data
- In your operational area, you’ll run the work and build systems that make it reliable and increasingly automated, drawing on external specialists for technical expertise
- This isn’t a traditional finance role: we’re a small team of generalists who think in systems, learn unfamiliar domains quickly, and reason through problems from first principles
- Leading analytical projects that change how we understand the business. Examples include:
- Adapting our ARR definition as our business model evolves
- Evaluating the health of our sales and marketing funnel
- Finding relationships between product initiatives and expansion or churn
- Owning a traditional finance domain (such as Accounting or Tax). This will involve a combination of operational work, managing external experts, and evaluating the overall health of the operation
- Automating the workflows in your domain so our operational and compliance requirements take as little manual effort as possible. Our aspiration is that areas of traditional finance are treated similarly to analytical systems: a set of inputs that are transformed via defined logic to produce a targeted outcome or insight
- Leading cross-functional projects to tackle operational problems as they arise
Our take
Metabase is leading a new trend in Business Intelligence tools. Before it, there were big enterprise systems like SAP, and then self-service tools like Tableau and Looker. Now, open-source tools like Metabase are taking the stage, available both as a self-hosting solution and a managed cloud offering.
Metabase's open source nature has helped it build a large and active global community. The company generates revenue through professional services such as managed hosting, support, and assistance with implementing Metabase in custom analytics or business intelligence setups.
It also serves over 85,000 companies worldwide. And now, the challenge for the startup will be capturing significant revenue while continuing to stay true to its open-source principles.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38m
Company benefits
- Flexible and unlimited time off, including sick days
- Fully remote work environment with flexible working hours. We try to have some overlap time every day, but outside of that, work when and where you work best
- A new MacBook, or another machine of your choice
- $500 ergonomic stipend
- Annual company-wide off-sites
- 100% employer coverage health, dental, and vision insurance 🇺🇸
- 401k 4% match 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Fully remote
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Leadership
Sameer Al-Sakran
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with an MS in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics. Worked as a Software Engineer and Genetic Programming researcher before founding a Facebook Ad Tools startup in 2010. Worked with multiple VCs and startup studios, and lastly Expa from which Metabase was spun out.
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