Data Analyst

Backbone is seeking a talented and experienced Data Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will scale the use of data, reporting, and actionable insights across our hardware and software businesses. You are an experienced analytics professional with a proven track record in extracting value out of data. You will use big data, cloud platforms, and business intelligence tools to drive insights on product, customer, and content. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, sales, and other teams to develop data products and capabilities that will enable data-driven decision-making across Backbone.

An ideal candidate will be self-driven and passionate about data fidelity, with a penchant for translating data into relevant, actionable insights that produce great experiences for customers. You will drive data-driven decisions, you should have insatiable curiosity and obsess about customers. You will take end-to-end ownership of your work, and consistently deliver actionable results in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do:

• Analyze source data and systems and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to validate data, instrument new user signals, and provide on-going feedback to drive continuous improvements to the data foundation.
• Translate business requirements to data products and solutions that allow internal stakeholders to easily consume data and enable data-driven decision-making.
• Inform business and technology teams by defining business health metrics, identifying deviation from expected trends and communicating the insights with simple and clear messaging.
• Analyze metrics that inform the success of products, features, content and customer and enable business leaders to monitor the heath of the business.
• Use quantitative analysis and data mining to understand user interactions direct-to-consumer products, its content and features.
• Identify the opportunities most important for product adoption, customer retention, engagement, and partner with product managers to drive hypothesis-testing.
• Design experiments to drive product improvement with iterative innovation and measurement.

What You Need to Have:

• Degree in analytical, engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in analytics field with strong attention to detail.
• 2+ years of experience working cross-functionally across business teams.
• Comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex data from multiple sources and designing large scale experiments.
• Strong ability to extract insights from data and communicate the findings in clear, concise and actionable manner.
• Demonstrated success in building self-service and repeatable business intelligent solutions.
• Strong experience in analytical tools, languages (SQL, Python, R) and distributed computing (Hive, Hadoop, Spark)
• Ability to translate business questions into analytics deliverables
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines in fast-paced environment with attention to detail, prioritize work based on business needs and project requirements.
• Experience with Google Analytics, GCP, Mode, DBT is a plus.

Benefits and Perks:

• Bi-annual off-sites to spend time with the team
• Hybrid office model (this role can be fully remote)
• Offices in Seattle and the SF Bay Area (Atherton)
• 401k match
• Full medical, dental, and vision for all FTE roles
• Free Backbone products (sometimes free games too!)