Data Strategist

Reports to: Fernando DeLeon, Chief Product Officer

About Innovare

Innovare - Social Innovation Partners is a social enterprise founded in July 2017, focused on improving education to accelerate social change. Our software and support empower education leaders to drive continuous improvement in their organizations to impact students and communities. We currently have customers across the United States and Latin America and are expanding rapidly. We want you to be part of our team of educators, private sector transplants, data, and tech experts working together toward equity.

About the Role

The Data Strategist supports the Company in leveraging a data-driven approach to meet its goals and drive impact for our customers. This position reports to the Chief Product Officer and works cross-functionally
The Data Strategist supports the Company in leveraging a data-driven approach to meet its goals and drive impact for our customers. This position reports to the Chief Product Officer and works cross-functionally with teams to ensure Innovare can scale its growth while our users can reach their impact goals.
with teams to ensure Innovare can scale its growth while our users can reach their impact goals.

Responsibilities

The Data Strategist is integral in supporting the success of our Customers and growth of the Company. Specifically, the Data Strategist will focus on developing the business intelligence strategy and build our data pipelines, customer facing data visualizations, and data warehouse.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Identify data requirements, including identifying the sources of data and methods to improve data collection, analysis, automation, and reporting
  • Extract, transform, and load data into our data warehouse and create data pipelines, as necessary, to automate data collection and structuring
  • Design and build data visualizations that simplify the ability to identify insights and develop a data-driven strategic plan and progress monitoring process.
  • Use visualizations to Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets and communicate insights to various
  • Identify data requirements, including identifying the sources of data and methods to improve data collection, analysis, automation, and reporting
  • Extract, transform, and load data into our data warehouse and create data pipelines, as necessary, to automate data collection and structuring
  • Design and build data visualizations that simplify the ability to identify insights and develop a data-driven strategic plan and progress monitoring process.
  • Use visualizations to Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets and communicate insights to various audiences for better strategic planning and decision-making
  • audiences for better strategic planning and decision-making
  • Ensuring overall data quality and maintenance of systems, including filtering and cleaning data, conducting internal audits, mitigating risks through a proactive approach on systematic data needs and data protection information
  • Support the success of the Customer Success team with data analysis, reports, and training as requested by management on important KPIs and customer health scorecard
  • Select, configure, use, and train others on software that improve team operations

Minimum
Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, OR comparable record of business intelligence and data strategy leadership experience required

4+ years of experience as a business or data analyst

2+ years of experience utilizing K-12 education data

Advanced proficiency in Google Data Studio/Looker Studio

Ability to translate data sets into resources and reports targeted at various audiences, synthesizing and crafting data insights, recommendations, narratives, and stories to support a business case

Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel formulas, SQL, and BigQuery
Excellent eye for design of visualizations
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent project management skills
Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail

Flexibility, resilience, and strong collaborative skills; able to work independently and be agile in a fast-changing environment

Strong ability to positively influence people and decisions

Superior critical thinking, analytical and independent research skills with the keen ability to synthesize both qualitative and quantitative information

Cross-cultural agility, relating to a wide variety of diverse audiences
Ability and willingness to learn new functional and technical skills quickly

Desire to engage in self-development and growth through provided and independently sought out professional and talent development opportunities

Preferred
Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree
  • Experience developing code, scripts, batch processes using Javascript, Python, and/or other languages to automate data extraction, transformation, and loading.
  • Experience using APIs to extract data from applications in JSON, CSV, and other formats
  • Experience building data pipelines with Google Cloud services and other applications
  • Proficient in Product and Customer Success analytics and KPIs to measure performance
  • Google Certified Data Engineer

Benefits

Company-paid top-notch health, dental, vision, and disability Insurance

Personal and professional development opportunities
Flexible schedule with
home office days
Paid company holidays and vacation
A diverse team where you can be yourself 100% of the time and can share all of your ideas
Opportunity to shape and scale our impact-driven organization
Company-paid top-notch health, dental, vision, and disability Insurance
Personal and professional development opportunities
Flexible schedule with
home office days

Paid company holidays
and vacation

A diverse team where you can be yourself 100% of the time and can share all of your ideas
Opportunity to shape
and scale our
impact-driven
organization

is committed to and advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology and society. Women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people, all members of the LGBTQ+ community and/or Black, Indigenous, and all people of color are especially encouraged to apply.

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