Business Intelligence Specialist jobs in San Francisco, CA

Check is looking for its first Business Intelligence hire. Reporting to the Head of Finance and Business Operations, this person will be the end-to-end analytics owner who partners with stakeholders across the company to provide accurate and validated data insights that drive business impact. We are looking for someone who is passionate about driving change using data and has experience collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders.  The ideal candidate is highly technical, business-oriented, and thrives in ambiguity. 

In this role, you will:

• Be the steward of Check’s data. Develop a deep understanding of the most critical data required to enable teams, and build and maintain the core data models required for performance monitoring, KPI reporting, and workflow enablement for these teams.
• Turn data into decision-making.  Utilize SQL and other data analysis tools to extract, transform, and analyze data, and share actionable insights to stakeholders to drive clarity in decision-making across Check. 
• Maintain and extend existing analytics. Take ownership of existing analytics efforts, and proactively look for opportunities to improve the analytical rigor across the company.  
• Keep a pulse on topline metrics and unit economics. Be keenly aware of changes to Check’s key financial and business performance metrics, and proactively investigate changes and share insights with key stakeholders. 
• Partner widely. Work with the Finance & BizOps team and collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Risk. The stronger these partnerships, the more successful you and Check will be.

Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have:

• A proven track record of building and maintaining complex data models, across a variety of data sources, that deliver consistent outputs across the company
• Experience scaling analytics infrastructure and operations
• Experience working with leadership to define and model KPIs
• Provide actionable insights to improve marketing initiatives and budget allocation
• Ability to translate ad hoc requests into enhancements to our core data models
• Ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks
• Experience building and maintaining analytics tech-stack: ETL tools (e.g. Fivetran, Stitch), analytics tools (e.g. Mode), data catalogs, and databases (Redshift, Postgres, Snowflake)
• Experience modeling Salesforce, revenue, and product usage data
• Strong SQL skills (2 years experience)
• 5 years of data modeling experience in an analytical position 

We use:

• Snowflake
• Stitch
• Mode
• Postgres for our database
• AWS for our cloud infrastructure

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we welcome remote work, we believe time together in person is valuable and important. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to be willing to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall.  

For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc. 

What we offer: 

In the US, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage to all full-time employees, effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. Benefits may vary outside the US.

The expected annual salary/hourly rate for this role is between $157,000 and $190,000, dependent upon each candidate’s unique experience and qualifications.