Data Research Analyst, Gt.school (Remote) - $60,000/Year Usd

Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, gt.school. Have you got what it takes?

Do you take pleasure in looking at and interpreting data? Are you passionate about education and want a role in a startup that wants to revolutionize how technology is used to learn? If yes, keep on reading…

We’re looking for individuals who:

• Understand the importance of revolutionizing the education space with cutting-edge technology.
• Are excellent communicators; able to concisely and effectively describe processes in written playbooks, design engaging student communication, and keep other team members consistently updated with progress on projects.
• Are strategic problem solvers who can quickly devise and implement solutions to address ad-hoc issues facing our students
• Consider themselves to be consistent, high performers who rarely have ‘off-days’.

In this role, you’ll work directly with our EdTech company, gt.school. You’ll develop an expert understanding of the data we collect on students and become familiar with all the apps and systems we use to collect and store this information. You will build new edtech tools and operational processes, and restructure existing processes to be more efficient.

Not only will you gain valuable experience, but you’ll also receive regular coaching and training from a team of global tech experts and operations professionals. You’ll get constructive feedback on all of your work to help you develop and get a chance to meet daily with other team members to work collaboratively on projects.

Interested in a role that involves research, strategy, product development, and data science in the cutting-edge field of education and technology? Apply below.

What You Will Be Doing

• Participating in daily stand-up calls to solve the most critical issues facing students in our program, other staff members such as Motivational Coaches, Academic Coaches, Program Directors, or the leadership team.
• Troubleshooting issues facing our students due to data issues, human error, or automation error; quickly strategizing a bulletproof solution that solves the issue and prevents further recurrence in the future.
• Creating robust processes that stand the test of time and capture all of the edge-cases to ensure maximum probability of success the first time around.
• Converting important decisions made by leadership into work units that a junior Operations team can perform.
• Working as a team to ensure progress is being made on key tasks by communicating with other operations analysts and managers to ensure no lapse in service for internal or external stakeholders.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Collecting data or performing administrative tasks - we have a junior operations analyst team to do this type of work.
• Providing loose or generalized solutions that don’t actually get implemented.

Basic Requirements

Data Research Analyst key responsibilities

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Consistently able to work 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, between 6AM and 6PM CST
• 2+ years of work experience working in a technical field (science, technology, financial services, data science)
• Bachelor’s degree from a top 20 US university or a top 100 global university.
• Proficient in Python, R, or any other general-purpose programming language (we will test this)

About Gt.school

gt.school is a stealth EdTech startup in Austin, Texas, the center of educational innovation in the US. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and high-performance life skills coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn 5x faster and unlock their full potential in both academics and in life. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with Crossover

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

What to expect next:

• Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
• Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4880-US-Virginia-DataResearchAn.006