Principal Data Analyst, General

About the role

As a Principal Data Analyst, reporting to our Head of Analytics, you will play a key role in helping shape Flex’s future by supporting key analytics projects across our Customer Support, Finance, Go-To-Market, Marketing, Product, and Strategy teams. You will help navigate some of the most challenging problems across the Flex business, bringing data-driven insights and clarity to ambiguous problems. The ideal candidate for this role is intensely curious, holds themselves to a high analytical bar, while simultaneously balancing analytical rigor with speed and ultimate business impact.

What you’ll do

• Proactively explore data across multiple Flex domains to identify relationships and trends that will inform the future direction of the business
• Create and improve dashboards, visualizations, and automations that help us scale analytics across Flex
• Partner with functional area leaders across the business to uncover insights and opportunities, as well as root causing drivers of performance
• Working closely with the rest of Analytics and Business Intelligence to improve our source of truth across both internal and client-facing data
• Combine data and strategy - being that bridge between what the data is telling us and the implications for strategic priorities within different areas of the business

Key qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a quantitative focus (Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.)
• 6+ years of experience using analytical and statistical methods to support and drive critical business outcomes
• Effective communicator who can break down complex technical concepts into simple business vernacular
• Demonstrated success supporting and influencing business strategy across from an analytics perspective
• Advanced experience with SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Mode, Looker, etc.)
• Experience with ETL processes, especially utilizing dbt and Snowflake
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills; must be very comfortable with data analysis and driving decision making
• Biased for action - doesn’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough, willing to build a first prototype and improve based on learnings, etc.
• Have a natural curiosity to dive into the details and have a strong analytical mindset

The national pay range for this role is $170,000-186,000 in base salary. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience aligned with Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.