Senior Data Analyst

Company Description

BluWave is a rapidly growing, category-creating market network that leverages proprietary data, technology and AI to connect top business builders with leading third party resources. We serve the multi-billion dollar private equity market along with proactive public and independent companies. Our exclusive, pre-credentialed ecosystem includes best-in-class consultancies, senior advisors, board members, independent consultants, and interim executives.

Our innovative platform empowers clients to access the resources and expertise needed to assess opportunities and build value with more speed and certainty in today's fast-paced, competitive environment. BluWave was recently recognized by the Deloitte Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing, most innovative technology companies in North America.

Job Description

Are you a one-of-a-kind data analyst who thrives on delivering actionable insights to guide executive decision-making? Are you insatiably curious? Do you like solving puzzles? If so, BluWave is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Analyst capable of driving advanced analytics projects with independence, ownership, and strategic impact.

In this role, you will work closely with executive stakeholders across sales, marketing, finance, operations, and technology to solve complex challenges and ensure data drives critical business decisions. You'll take ownership of advanced analytics projects, build intuitive dashboards in tools like Sigma, and apply innovative methods to uncover trends and optimize processes.

You'll leverage modern data tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Sigma, and Metaplane and access a highly proprietary dataset to enhance the quality, reliability, and efficiency of BluWave's analytics capabilities and enable BluWave to make bigger, bolder, higher expected value decisions. This position is best suited for an experienced and results-driven individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and quickly earns stakeholder trust.

BluWave offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise while growing your responsibilities, with advancement focused on increasing your impact and ownership across business functions.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• You find energy by delivering accurate, timely analytics that guide decision-making at the executive level.

• You have insatiable curiosity and a strong need to understand why things work and what drives performance.

• You have an expert ability to couple publicly available data, purchased third party data, and BluWave's proprietary data factory to derive insights that inform better decision making and improve performance.

• You get excited by the power of AI, the value it is bringing, and will bring to the modern business world.

• You can elegantly distill insights using sophisticated statistical techniques, AI, and data visualizations and dashboards via Sigma that will enable BluWave to measure and monitor performance, identify causal relationships, and continuously improve outcomes.

• You have particular expertise in analyzing sales and marketing data to explain efficacy, attribution, and key performance correlations.

• You will expertly leverage and optimize BluWave's modern data tools (Snowflake, dbt, Sigma, Metaplane) to improve analytics, workflow efficiency, and understand, and will advocate for future cutting-edge tools that will enable BluWave to continuously improve over time.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics and Insights:

• Analyze BluWave' robust datasets housed in Snowflake to uncover actionable insights, drivers of outcomes, and address business needs across sales, marketing, operations, finance, and technology.

• Apply advanced methodologies (e.g., regression analysis, A/B testing, time-series modeling) to evaluate performance, improve decision-making, and support predictive analyses, with an emphasis on sales and marketing data.

• Own and deliver timely, high-value analytics projects and ad-hoc requests with accuracy and a consultative approach.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Partner with executive stakeholders to understand their needs and provide insights that solve specific business challenges.

• Build compelling, self-service dashboards in Sigma and support stakeholders with interpreting and leveraging insights effectively.
• Present trends and recommendations clearly and effectively to non-technical audiences, helping them translate insights into action.

Modern Data Tools and Optimization:

• Leverage tools like dbt to support data transformation processes and ensure data quality across workflows.

• Use Metaplane or other observability tools to monitor, maintain, and improve data reliability.

• Continuously refine analytics workflows, enabling more efficient reporting and enhanced operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in data analytics, with demonstrated expertise in independently managing projects and delivering impactful results.

• Strong experience working with data in Snowflake environments and familiarity with modern BI tools (Sigma preferred; Tableau, Looker, or Power BI acceptable).

• Familiarity with data transformation tools such as dbt, as well as data observability tools like Metaplane or similar platforms, is highly preferred.

• Strong experience applying advanced statistical methodologies (e.g., regression modeling, A/B testing, attribution modeling, time-series analysis) to evaluate business activities, with an emphasis on sales, marketing and campaign-related performance preferred.

• Working knowledge of Python (e.g., Pandas, NumPy) for automating tasks and advanced analysis.

• Advanced SQL skills with a strong command of relational databases, query optimization, and complex data transformations. Ability to write efficient, modular, and maintainable code to support scalable analytics workflows and work with large, complex datasets in a Snowflake-powered environment. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data simply and make results actionable for executive stakeholders.

• Self-starter mindset, with the ability to execute on projects efficiently and deliver impactful solutions with minimal guidance or oversight.

• An undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics or adjacent data science field(s) from a leading academic institution. An advanced master's level degree is a plus.

• A proven ability and genuine enthusiasm for thriving in a startup or fast-paced work environment.

Why Join Us

• Work on impactful projects. You will have the opportunity to analyze meaningful and unique data that influences decision-making for a fast-scaling company at the intersection of data and business strategy.

• Collaborate with a growth-focused team. You will partner with talented peers and executive stakeholders who value analytics-driven decisions.

• Leverage modern tools. You will get to operate with modern tools, including Snowflake, dbt, Sigma, Metaplane, leading AI techniques, and more to ensure your success in driving analytics processes.

• Building something that matters. You will be a key member of a collaborative, successful team that embraces the power of data throughout its organization and has created a new business category that thrives by making others successful.

• Embrace a value-driven culture. You will be in an environment that prioritizes teamwork, integrity, growth, and winning for our clients-all while supporting your personal and professional development.

Key Characteristics

We place great importance on hiring team members who embrace and embody our core values:

• Team: We're "we" people, not "me" people.

• Integrity: We bring value with integrity in everything we do.

• Grow: We find immense satisfaction in continuously learning, growing, and improving.

• Win: We are energized by doing what it takes to win for our clients and ourselves.

We're seeking someone who shares these values and also brings the following characteristics:

• Strong intellectual curiosity, with a hunger to explore better tools, solve complex problems, and learn continuously.

• A data-driven mindset paired with creativity to find actionable solutions to business challenges.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills to balance competing priorities
effectively.

• Collaborative spirit, capable of building trust while delivering impactful results for executive stakeholders.

Work Expectations & Location

This hybrid work role is based in Nashville, TN. We collaboratively work together in our modern office Monday through Thursday each week and offer flexibility to work from home on Fridays. To support relocation, we are happy to discuss customized relocation assistance for candidates moving to Nashville.

Future Opportunities for Growth

As BluWave grows, your role will expand with opportunities for increasing responsibility and ownership. Growth may include deepening analytics expertise, spearheading high-impact projects across business functions, and influencing strategic decisions at the executive level.

BluWave is a top-tier destination for differentiated individuals to grow their long-term careers. We are building the best intelligent B2B market network in the world and encourage anyone interested to apply to join our team.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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