For over two decades, BrainPOP has been trusted by educators and parents worldwide as a source of engaging and impactful learning experiences for all kids. With a presence in over two-thirds of U.S. districts through school and district subscriptions and an estimated annual reach of 25 million students, BrainPOP is empowering kids to take agency over their learning and excel in and out of the classroom.
The company was acquired in 2022 by KIRKBI, the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO brand, marking a significant milestone as their first acquisition in the digital learning realm. We are thrilled to continue making learning fun and accessible with the strategic guidance and support of KIRKBI.
About the Role
BrainPOP seeks a technically minded Analytics Engineer to join our growing Data Engineering team. In this role, you will focus on digging deep into the expansive data repository we have collected over 20+ years to build meaningful in-product dashboards and reports. You will establish a strong foundation of our data and what it means and support product stakeholders as they seek to understand customer behavior and how customers use our products. You will support and assist data engineers in understanding the data, help define metrics in the product, and support the data certification program with your analytical skills. This information is used to help teachers do their critical job better and help them understand how BrainPOP can help students reach their potential.
This role will report directly to the Sr. Director of Data Engineering. This role will be hybrid, with a weekly in-office component in our NYC office.
In this role, you will:
- Support the product teams in their data needs, specifically helping to define metrics and build out new reporting tables that will be used for both in-product reporting and internal dashboards (generally built by others) to help understand our product performance.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis for product-centric requests
- Transform and model datasets for myriad business use cases.
- Write queries to support our anomaly detection and data quality tools
- Contribute to data discovery, certification, and governance initiatives
- Build dashboards and reports per specification you will assist our stakeholders in designing
- Assist your data engineering colleagues with analyzing and writing queries to build data pipelines.
On your resume:
- 5+ years of work experience in data-centric roles, including analytics and data engineering
- 4+ years of experience crunching data, performing exploratory analyses, and digging into consumer behavior interacting with digital content
- Demonstrated mastery of SQL and working knowledge of one or more programming languages; Python strongly preferred.
- Experience with statistical techniques (mean/median/mode, frequency distributions, standard deviations, etc.) and more advanced techniques such as logistical regression, clustering, nearest neighbors, decision trees, etc.
- Experience building reports in one or more BI tools (Looker/Mode/Tableau/Sisense, etc.)
- Experience working with stakeholders and being the ‘translator’ between business needs and requests and formal metrics definitions and queries/
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
About our ideal candidate:
- Experience performing analyses on digital content consumption, a strong plus
- Demonstrated ability to execute on well-defined small and medium projects in a timely manner.
- Experience working with our data stack: AWS, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Looker/Mode/Tableau.
- Self-starting and interested in building a modern, best-in-class data platform.
Location:
The BrainPOP team operates in a hybrid work environment: Each role has remote flexibility and an in-person component at our New York headquarters or other meeting locations. Based on the requirements of a specific position, we may prioritize hiring within a commutable distance of our New York headquarters or in another region relevant to that role.
We can employ individuals residing in the following approved hiring states:
- California
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
Life at BrainPOP
At BrainPOP, our work directly impacts how teachers teach and students learn. They inspire us to build solutions that facilitate joy and meaningful learning outcomes. Our commitment to educators and kids is reflected in our dedication to the BrainPOP team: ensuring their experience is empowering, creative, collaborative, playful, and anchored in learning and growth.
Our team is made up of educators, data scientists, published authors, engineers, artists, bakers, film buffs, cyclists, dual citizens, and so much more. We value diversity and inclusion, collaboration, and learning from multiple perspectives.
We believe that a diverse organization is a more effective organization. BrainPOP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
