About us:

Based in New York but fully distributed, Shortcut builds project management software for software and product teams that people actually want to use - just ask an engineer how they feel about Jira. Thousands of the fastest-growing software companies use Shortcut to plan and build software, including Glossier, Venmo, Dataiku, Scale AI, FullStory, LaunchDarkly, and others.

The role:

The Senior Data Analyst will help grow our Data Analysis team. As a founding member of our Data Analysis team, you`ll help contribute to both existing and new reporting capabilities. This role will work cross functionally across many teams with a high degree of executive visibility. Working to establish best practices and usability across our Data products. You`ll build dashboards, visualizations, data dictionaries, and presentations to support our analysis. This role will report to our Head of Data.

Our Data team is made up of various Internal and External teams. Our skill sets and functions range from Data Engineering, Analysis, Science to others as well! We`re responsible for supporting our exponential Product Led Growth (PLG) through the power of data.

Shortcut is a data driven company, our role is to surface data, dashboards, and insights for functions across Shortcut. Driving a direct impact on strategy and decision making across our high growth organization. We frequently work directly with executives, senior leadership, and individual contributors to perform analysis that drives our adaptive strategy. Everyone is our stakeholder.

What you`ll do:

• Build a strong understanding of the business and key drivers to provide actionable insights to the organization to maximize business results.
• Present data and insights clearly to departments through visual dashboards, slide decks, etc.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards for department leaders with high data quality and in an organized manner.
• Contribute to the modeling, dictionaries, and integrity of the data platform.
• Explain performance on key business metrics to department leaders through causal/correlational relationships.
• Assist product team in understanding the impact of key product initiatives.
• Use SQL, LookML, DBT, Excel, and BI tools to create dashboards and perform complex analysis.

You should have:

• Strong proven experience working with data via SQL, preferably in a high-volume environment
• Experience with Looker, Tableau, Power BI or other data visualization software. Preferably Looker/LookerML.
• Expertise with data modeling, and database structures.
• Expert at manipulation of data within Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Ability to generate crisp and compelling data visualizations and be a strong communicator of results
• Ability to take a top level business metric and identify the key reasons why it is over / under performing.
• Strong professional skills, ethics, and communication skills.

Extra credit (nice to have):

• Experience working with Data Engineers and Scientists.
• Experience working with DBT.
• Experience in a fast paced entrepreneurial environment.
• Financial or tech industry experience.
• Experience in Product Led Growth companies.
• Experience with project management tools like Jira, Asana, Trello, etc.

What we offer:

• Compensation: A competitive salary in addition to meaningful equity in the company - you should be able to take ownership of what you`re helping to build.
• Benefits: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance, FSA, OneMedical, Teladoc, Health Advocate, 401(k), commuter benefits
• Work-life balance: A flexible open vacation policy, in addition to 10 company holidays, 5 sick days, and 3 "Dot Days" (our term for bonus days off), community (volunteer) PTO, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave. We also observe 40 hour work weeks without the expectation of after-hours or weekend work.
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual stipend to use toward conferences, educational courses, books, membership fees and more
• WFH: We are a fully remote company, and we provide all the equipment you need to work from home in addition to an annual WFH stipend.

Target base salary for this role based on experience: $90,000-$110,000 annually + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

At Shortcut, we embrace the different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences our team members bring to the table. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome all applicants and teammates regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by applicable law. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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