As the Head of Data and Analytics at Outschool, you will steer our insights-driven vision and strategy, transforming how we leverage data across the marketplace to make informed decisions that create value for our users. This role offers the opportunity to lead and evolve a talented team of Data Scientists, Engineers and Analysts, directly impacting our strategy and business trajectory. You'll be instrumental in fostering a culture of data excellence, innovating in analytics, and ensuring compliance with data standards and policies. You’ll join our leadership team reporting into our Head of Finance (CFO) while partnering closely with Product and the whole leadership team to help Outschool achieve our mission to inspire kids to love learning.
Core responsibilities:
- Deliver high-quality, actionable insights to inform and enhance business strategies within the first 6 months
- Develop and champion a company-wide data and analytics strategy, ensuring continued compliance with all data policies and standards within 12 months
- Establish and maintain robust data asset management, ensuring data accessibility and utility across the company within 24 months
- Build, mentor, and retain a diverse and talented team, optimizing for performance and innovation
- Oversee key data & analytics initiatives including but not limited Marketing Analytics, Data Privacy, Supply/Demand Metrics plus tools & systems
- Lead the productionalization of DS/ML models in critical business areas
- Direct the development and rollout of a DBT model to support robust insights
- Champion the use of Looker and SQL across the organization, ensuring effective utilization post-rollout
Desired experience & skills:
- A demonstrated track record driving strategic decisions leveraging sound business acumen & judgment
- Demonstrated executive level or senior level leadership experience with a track record of team building and influencing cross functionally
- Expertise in managing enterprise data architecture and analytics engineering tools (e.g., DBT)
- Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Looker) and programming languages (SQL, Python, R)
- In-depth understanding of data-related legal and regulatory requirements (GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, PIPA, PIPEDA)
- A strong understanding of and experience developing production ready data science & machine learning models
- You’re comfortable working with a high degree of ownership and autonomy in your work
Other considerations:
- Advanced skills in statistical analysis and e-commerce/marketplace-specific data concepts
- Experience in an online marketplace, consumer products, and varied stages of company growth (startups to public companies)
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. For New York and California candidates, as well as candidates based in Seattle, WA the salary range for this role would be $225,000-$325,000 USD.
For Washington candidates outside of Seattle, as well as Colorado candidates, the salary range for this role would be $202,500-$292,500 USD.
Outschool cares:
At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions through our partner, ModernHealth.
- PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
- Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
- Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
- Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs.
