The mission of the Data Platform Team at Checkr is to deliver an analytics data platform with self-service capabilities for internal and external customers. Through partnerships with key stakeholders, we strive to provide actionable insights in a speedy and accurate manner to better understand their needs, build better products, and empower data-informed decisions.

Reporting into the Director of Data Platform, this role is responsible for the mentorship and management of cross-functional analysts. At Checkr we have a hybrid organizational model with analysts that are embedded into the product teams as well as a centralized team. This role will serve as a mentor to analysts while managing projects end to end to deliver value to the business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and engage a team of analysts to deliver high impact projects in alignment with organizational objectives

• Influence partners and senior leaders through communicating across various levels of the organization through the storytelling of the data

• Prioritize multiple tasks and work streams simultaneously and own projects end to end

• Recognize the potential of team members and guide them in developing skills through mentorship and training

• Develop and help build sustained change and performance improvement from data-driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts

• Identify the most appropriate solutions from a range of common statistical methods, analytical techniques and modeling concepts to answer business questions

• Identify and communicate insights from data to help stakeholders have a deeper understanding of product experience

• Work directly with product managers and data team members to develop frameworks for product analytics including data validation and a/b test framework

• Identify and analyze key metrics, conversions, and conversion drivers.

What you bring:

• Multiple years managing varying levels of data roles. Distributed team management a plus

• Multiple years experience in an IC product analyst role; Experience in managing people to deliver projects and contributing to their development

• A multifaceted individual who consistently, and inventively, applies analytical concepts and playbooks to tackle business problems and unlock opportunities

• Well-practiced in partnering with business areas and collaborating with Product teams

• Self-starter mindset and willingness to challenge assumptions/status-quo.

• Take initiative to identify current and potential problems and recommend the best solution given the tradeoffs

• Display a true passion for data and analytics as well as possessing a strong curiosity and desire to provide data for informed decisions faster

• Strong SQL skills; demonstrated experience with tools to structure, transform and visualize data (R,Python, etc)