The Role: 

As a Business Intelligence Engineer, you will be a key teammate responsible for helping make effective, analytically driven decisions for our stakeholders. Collaborating with other data team members and managers, you will develop an intimate knowledge of our databases and work with our data warehousing and Looker developers to design the best tables to achieve the best visual outcomes. You’ll architect insightful, concise data marts to drive the most informed, effective decisions for our business strategy.

Why You’ll Love This Role: 

You will get to work with leaders across Newsela and directly inform them with reliable insights via data reporting. Your data set will be that of students reading. You’ll be working alongside data analysts and data scientists, who are also investigating and answering strategic questions that will impact the marketing strategy. Ultimately, your work will drive meaningful enhancements to the learning and teaching experience of over 25 million students and teachers across the U.S. and help improve the future of K-12 education.

Why We’ll Love You: 

You have 4+ years helping to solve complex data problems using reporting tools and SQL. Your SQL skills have helped you take data and synthesize it effortlessly for effective, clear reporting. You understand how to pull the right data to make decisions, and can effectively gather requirements and address communication gaps between teams to build successful analysis and reporting. You’re able to improve organizational performance though the application of original thinking to existing and emerging data methods and processes. In addition to your technical skills, your excellent visual acumen enables you to thoughtfully design data marts for use in  easily digestible dashboards and reports for a wide range of audiences.

About Newsela:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.