Growth Data Analyst

About the Team/Role

WEX is in search of a Growth Data Analyst to join the Sales Center of Excellence (SCOE). SCOE is tasked with turning complex data into tangible insights to help drive the success and growth of our financial payment solution products, clients and our company.

Data is an integral part of the WEX decision-making process and learning-based culture. As a key member of the SCOE team, the Growth Data Analyst is responsible for driving significant and sustainable user growth across the customer lifecycle. This person will help us create data frameworks, help build the data collection engine, explore the data, and be a catalyst for change through data-driven insights, and then use those insights to anticipate what types of questions and analysis should be tackled next.

This is a multi-faceted, critical position and an opportunity to be part of a highly technical analytics team. The ideal candidate for this role is a pro-active, creative, curious and innovative thinker that has a proven track record of contributing to and distilling complex data analysis into consumable stories and external-facing content.

How you'll make an impact

• Have a passion for everything data: designing models, corralling & munging data, measuring success

• Be familiar with modern technology and coding frameworks, as well as be proficient with SQL, Python, or other coding languages

• Express curiosity illustrating data-driven visual stories through web development and/or Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

• Love data and be able to coherently speak data to others. In addition to having profound information design and storyteller abilities, they are curious, resourceful, confident under pressure, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

• Collaborate closely with the product and marketing leads, and have high-visibility across all other functions.

• Practical analysis and insights in a compelling manner to persuasively tell our story across a variety of mediums and to a variety of different internal and external stakeholders. Identify ways to leverage our data to excite and inspire our industry, customers and prospects with our capabilities and insights.

• Articulate findings clearly and concisely, and create data-driven content with unique narratives for target use cases, verticals and personas, including through presentations, white papers, infographics, blog posts etc.

• Conceptualize, build and maintain dashboards and reports focusing on key product metrics; build simple and elegant data visualizations for use in internal and external contexts.

• Ability to understand which request for analysis would more likely lead to actionable insights versus vanity metrics.

Experience you'll bring

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience. A blended education in both STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and creative disciplines is ideal!

• 5-10 years of related experience

• Experience supporting & collaborating with areas of business responsible for revenue generation (i.e. Sales Marketing, Product, etc...)

• Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving ability; the ability to answer unstructured business questions and work independently to drive projects to conclusions.

• Strong analytical skills with the capacity to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

• Experience extracting insights using advanced SQL to work efficiently at scale.

• Strong knowledge of statistics, this includes experimental design for optimization, statistical significance, confidence intervals, and predictive analytics techniques.

• Data analytics experience (business intelligence, data visualization, product analytics etc.) with a proven track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business or product decisions and familiarity with modern data architecture and storage, including cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Comfortable with BI and data visualization tools (Salesforce Analytics Studio, Tableau, Looker, Business Objects, Qlik, etc.)

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).

• Ability to build collaborative relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to produce deep data analysis and original content.

• Ability to explain technical concepts and analysis clearly to a wide variety of audiences.

• Ability to conceptualize and build meaningful data visualizations.

• Loves to attend Tech Events to stay attune with emerging technologies.