Senior Data Analyst - Freelance [Remote]

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• LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere (TimeZone: EST | Full day overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $40 – $50/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Analyst
• Exceptional problem-solving, decision-making, and written communication skills.
• Comfortable diving deep into very large fields of data
• Comfortable with data wrangling; experience working with data engineers to source and efficiently operationalize new data streams.
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Ability to summarize large fields of data and present and visualize this information in a compelling, digestible fashion.
• Experience with Looker a plus.
• Superior analytical and quantitative skills; experience using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success.
• Ability to effectively communicate data and information to senior management.
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems with an extreme attention to detail.
• Deep and abiding love for figuring out how things work, then relentlessly testing and optimizing to drive desired outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel or other analytical tool
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Forecasting or demand planning experience a plus

What you’ll be working on
About The Role
Our client is seeking an innovative Senior Data Analyst to join their team and work on impactful initiatives providing decision support to business leadership through quantitative analysis mining their data for opportunities, and technical development of new data pipelines and reporting. The Senior Data Analyst will be responsible for collecting, transforming, and organizing their data to find insights, make predictions, and drive to the next decision.
Responsibilities

• Strive to reduce friction through automation of reports, consolidation of data sources, and exploration of additional metrics and data points to track.
• Generate robust data reports at both high (summary) and low (verbose deep-dive) level. Clear presentation and communication of data and highlights is key.
• Identify optimization opportunities, areas of high variance; provide guidance on operational improvements.
• Pull data, analyze, and communicate results. Pivot or shift approaches when necessary in response to what you learn.
• Work with partners in respective domains to develop deep understanding of their use cases, data schema, develop metrics, and drive insights and decision making.
• Drive learning and optimization of funnel through experimentation, creative iteration, and A/B testing.

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Braintrust Job ID: 6416
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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