Fast Facts

Amplify is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join its team in creating impactful analytics that inform business strategy and product development. In this remote role, you will leverage advanced SQL, Python, and data modeling skills to drive strategic decisions and enhance educational experiences for K-12 students.

Responsibilities: The Senior Data Analyst will build reporting frameworks, analyze data trends, and create actionable insights to support various teams, including Marketing, Sales, and Professional Development, while enhancing student learning outcomes.

Skills: Candidates should possess expertise in advanced SQL, Python, and dbt data modeling, along with proficiency in creating BI reports and dashboards using tools like Looker or Omni.

Qualifications: Must have a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of experience in data analytics, with strong communication skills and an understanding of performance metrics and their business implications.

Location: Remote - United States, United States of America

Compensation: $105000 - $129000 / Annually

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As a Senior Data Analyst at Amplify, you will join a talented team who seeks empirical answers to crucial questions about Amplify’s customers, operations, finances and products. You’ll play an active role in using data to inform business strategy, and product development. In doing so, you will have an impact on the lives of millions of students across the globe.

Essential Responsibilities:

Our Data Analytics teams build reporting frameworks and narratives that drive strategic decisions across every department at Amplify. You’ll be working with data scientists and engineers to provide clean, accurate, reliable metrics and reports for our products and internal business partners.

• Impress the toughest customers around – students – through analytics which drive the design and development cycle for fun and compelling apps
• Help school administrators build great schools by:
• discovering trends in usage of our reporting applications
• providing the visibility our supply chain teams need to make sure educational materials arrive in full and on time
• forecasting customer support demand to ensure that no administrator has to wait on hold when they need help
• Make life better for passionate Marketing, Sales, Operations and Learning Experience teams by building cohesive and action-oriented Looker or Tableau dashboards which turn impressions into opportunities, opportunities into new customers, and new customers into long term relationships.

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Be a key driver of Amplify’s financial success by analyzing cross-selling patterns to distill lessons from those regions and product mixes where we are seeing success to formulate new strategies.
• Measure digital engagement across STEM curricula by tracking active user metrics and usage patterns to optimize content delivery and student interaction with educational materials.
• Drive student learning outcomes by analyzing assessment events data to identify performance patterns and create actionable insights that help educators understand learning patterns.
• Shape Amplify’s strategic priorities by providing the Amplify executive team with deep insights into key metrics like Annual Recurring Revenue and Effective Price.
• Empower customer success managers with usage and progress reporting which allows them to proactively support their districts implementation of Amplify’s products.
• Partner with our Professional Development team to reduce their cost of delivery by analyzing cost trends and drivers based on delivery method, geographic location, and session type.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in a data analyst or related role.
• Expertise in advanced Structured Query Language (SQL), including complex joins, subqueries, and window functions.
• 5+ years of experience in the development and enhancement of dbt data models, including designing, building, and maintaining transformation models, writing modular SQL queries, and documenting data lineage.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain data models, semantic models, and enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) reports and dashboards using tools like Looker or Omni.
• 5+ years of experience using python for data analysis tasks.
• 5+ years of experience using Git and Github for version control.
• Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack (Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt).
• Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners.
• A drive to understand data and key performance metrics and their relevance to our business and product decisions.
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT pipelines and related tooling; understanding of relational data models, dimensional data models, and metric creation.
• Experience working in agile teams and a willingness to participate in team rituals like Storytime, Story Splitting, Story Estimation, and Retrospectives.
• Demonstrated ability owning meaningful metrics and KPIs by translating business problems and processes into measurable outcomes, aligning them with broader business strategy and team-level objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with large-scale datasets, statistical analysis, or A/B testing.
• Background in education or in edtech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements.

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $105,000 - $129,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email [email protected].

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If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

Amplify is an E-Verify participant.