Data Analyst, Amplify
Contractor
$30.00 - $35.00 per hour
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$30.00 - $35.00 per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in a data science/analyst role; or related experience
- Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners
- Extensive expertise using business intelligence and data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker), including proficiency in SQL
- Familiarity with ETL/ELT pipelines and related tooling, understanding of relational data models and metric creation
- Experience in modeling key performance metrics
- Strong analytical background and experience driving self-directed projects
Desirable
- Demonstrable record of using data visualization best practices
- Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack (Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, AWS, Fivetran)
- Proficient in a statistical or functional programming language (preferably python or R)
- Proficiency in understanding data and key performance metrics and their relevance to our business and product decisions
- Background in education or in edtech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements
- Experience building reports and analyzing data from company software, e.g., Netsuite, Hubspot, Salesforce etc
What the job involves
- Our data analytics teams ingest, transform, model, and aggregate the data that empowers teams across Amplify and our customers to make sense of and tell stories with their data
- You’ll be working with learning scientists and data engineers to deliver accurate and reliable reports, dashboards, models, metrics, and analysis for our products and internal business partners
- We believe strongly in teaching our teammates to serve themselves, within a safe, reliable, and agile data environment
- You’ll be building analytical solutions, but also the sharing-and-learning culture so that every team uses your analysis to improve their own lives, and those of our students and teachers
- Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with internal business partners, data scientists, and data engineers to identify precise data requirements, define and refine metrics and clarify technical requirements. Effectively communicate status, risks, open questions and blockers across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Data Analysis: Become an expert in the Amplify data models. Analyze data from various sources and communicate insights to executives, leaders and other key stakeholders
- Data Visualization: Design, build, and maintain intuitive, alluring data visualizations that provide critical visibility for all levels to lead and operate effectively. Write accompanying concise and accurate documentation
- Accurate and Consistent: Proactively identify inaccuracies in data. Determine and implement solutions to improve data quality. Collaborate with the data governance team to ensure consistency of key metrics
- Example Projects You Might Work On
- Improve calibration of customer support auditors through analyzing historic audit results, developing a calibration dashboard, and recommending an appropriate target to leadership
- Enhance the customer support case data model to allow for efficient analysis of the impact of one case type on another in partnership with data engineering
- Deliver professional development services more cost effectively by providing transparency to the true cost of delivery and related revenue. Analyze cost trends based on delivery method, geographic location, session type etc to identify and address biggest cost drivers
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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