The Data Analyst at Zearn will create analyses and reports that empower teams across the organization to make better, faster, and more informed decisions to advance Zearn’s mission of helping all children learn and love math. The role operates at the intersection of data infrastructure, analytics, and storytelling, ensuring data is accurate, accessible, and actionable.

What You'll Do

Drive insight generation and cross-functional enablement by transforming raw data into clear, actionable insights that drive decisions across Zearn.
Partner with stakeholders across Zearn, with varying levels of data fluency, to define questions, conduct analyses, and communicate findings that guide strategy and execution.
Translate complex data into clear narratives and recommendations, elevating the role of data in planning, prioritization, and measurement.
Build analytical models and dashboards that track key performance metrics, ensuring leaders have the visibility they need to evaluate impact and inform next steps.
Develop repeatable, high-impact analyses that reduce one-off data requests and increase analytical self-service across the organization.
Partner with Software, Data Engineers, and Senior Analysts to improve data pipelines, documentation, and schema design.
Establish and enforce data governance standards, ensuring quality, consistency, and accuracy across all reporting systems.
Identify and address data reliability gaps, proactively improving data health and strengthening trust in analytics outputs.
Implement repeatable or automated data quality checks to surface anomalies early and reduce downstream reporting errors.
Own the ongoing design, iteration, and maintenance of dashboards and analytical tools, ensuring they remain accurate, usable, and aligned with Zearn’s evolving priorities.
Identify recurring questions or points of confusion in reporting and proactively improve metric definitions, visualizations, or documentation to increase clarity and adoption.

What We're Looking For

Growth Mindset: If you don’t know how to do something, try your best to figure it out, whether that means reading documentation, asking colleagues, or developing creative debugging queries.
Technical Mastery: You understand relational data structures, and can use Python or similar languages to automate workflows and analyses.
Strategic Thinking: You understand how insights connect to business goals and help Zearn scale its impact.
Clarity in Communication: You learn about the context of stakeholder requests so that you can translate complex analyses into insights that are salient for your audience.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: You build strong partnerships with both technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to Have

Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field preferred)
Familiarity with querying relational databases using languages such as SQL or Python
Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or R for data manipulation
A passion for education and using data to improve learning outcomes for students.

Technical Stack

SQL
Python
R
Relational databases
Data pipelines
Dashboards
Data modeling
Data visualization tools

Team & Environment

Cross-functional team including Software, Data Engineers, Senior Analysts, and stakeholders across Zearn

Benefits & Compensation

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
Short- and long-term disability
Life insurance
401K matching
Parental leave
Generous Holiday policy
Flexible PTO policy
Collegial and passionate culture
Potential to positively impact the lives of millions of children

Compensation: $75,000 - $85,000 per year

Work Mode

Remote position available in the following locations: CA, CT, FL, IL, LA, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, Washington D.C.

Zearn is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.