Senior Data Analyst

About Amplify

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. 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.

The Role: Senior Data Analyst

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, impacting 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 students through analytics that 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 visibility for supply chain teams, and forecasting customer support demand.
• Make life better for passionate Marketing, Sales, Operations and Learning Experience teams by building cohesive and action-oriented Looker or Tableau dashboards that 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 formulate new strategies.
• Measure digital engagement across STEM curricula by tracking active user metrics and usage patterns to optimize content delivery and student interaction.
• Drive student learning outcomes by analyzing assessment events data to identify performance patterns and create actionable insights for educators.
• Shape Amplify’s strategic priorities by providing the executive team with deep insights into key metrics like Annual Recurring Revenue and Effective Price.
• Empower customer success managers with usage and progress reporting for proactive district support.
• Partner with our Professional Development team to reduce delivery costs by analyzing cost trends and drivers.

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

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 also offers 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.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• SQL
• dbt
• Looker
• Tableau
• Python
• Cloud Data Warehousing
• ETL/ELT
• KPIs
• Agile Methodologies