About TalkingPoints

TalkingPoints is an award-winning education technology non-profit organization with the mission to unlock the potential of low-income, underserved families to support their children’s learning by partnering with their children’s schools. COVID-19 remote learning environment has made our mission ever more urgent and important. We’re building a one-of-a-kind product in the market, a multilingual family engagement platform that connects families and teachers using human and artificial intelligence powered, two-way translated messages and personalized supports — eliminating language, time limitations, and know-how as barriers to school/family connection.

Millions of teachers and families are using TalkingPoints in their classrooms, schools and districts across the U.S. TalkingPoints works with key school district partners such as Seattle Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Buffalo Public School, Wake County and NYC DOE. We have won awards from NYU, MIT, Google, Forbes and are backed by Google, Eric Schmidt, AT&T, Cisco, and Stanford University to name a few.

We're at a critical inflection point in the organization's growth, our user base has grown exponentially in the past year while our team doubled and will double again over the next year. It's an important time to join our team and build on our momentum and ability to support students and families during this critical time in which education equity gaps are more concerning than ever. Learn more.

Diversity: we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it!

The Opportunity:

As our Analytics Engineer, you will utilize database tools/technologies including Snowflake and dbt, collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to understand data needs, and build interactive dashboards to support self-service access patterns and decentralized ownership of data assets. You will also be responsible for building the data transformation pipelines to serve those dashboards and data assets.

The ideal candidate is passionate about improving equity in education for under-resourced students through AI-based, data-informed solutions. The Analytics Engineer will report to the Head of Engineering and will collaborate with a cross-functional team of skilled data engineers and researchers. Your responsibilities will include:

• Technical Implementation and Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with our Data Product Manager and other stakeholders to gather requirements and co-develop analytics dashboards for self-service access
• Build data transformation pipelines to support the data assets being developed
• Optimize existing data pipelines to improve speed and scalability
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and regression tests for ensuring the reliability and accuracy of data transformations
• Debug and develop fixes for data integrity issues
• Stay up to date with industry developments and recommend new technologies and approaches to improve data infrastructure and processes

Who You Are:

• 3-5 years of experience in a data-focused, technical role
• Successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
• Experience using cloud-based data services such as Snowflake and/or Databricks

• Advanced SQL knowledge and expertise in query optimization
• Knowledge of data modeling and data warehousing concepts

• Strong ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skill

Nice to Haves:

• Bachelors of Science degree

• Domain knowledge in education and current educational technology trends
• Experience with SIS integrations using tools such as Clever, Classlink, and/or PowerSchool
• Experience working with non-relational databases such as MongoDB
• Experience supporting machine learning and/or research applications
• Experience in ETL tools/technologies such as dbt
• Experience working in nonprofits, especially using data to support fundraising efforts

Overall fit with our org culture - we look for team members who are

• User and mission-oriented: we are devoted to our mission with empathy towards the communities we serve.
• All-in together: we go above and beyond the job description, working together as a team.
• Agile & action-oriented: we get things done, knowing that our progress is urgent to our communities.
• Always Learning: we are always learning, with a growth mindset, to reach our full potential.
• Boldly Courageous: we take risks in order to achieve big things.
• Resourceful: We are creative, solution-oriented, and scrappy.

What We Offer:

• An incredible opportunity to build a mission-driven, rapidly growing startup tech nonprofit
• Annual professional development benefit
• Flexibility to work remotely
• Fun, smart, dynamic, and motivated team

How to Apply:

Please submit your resume, a brief paragraph describing your interest, and a link to your LinkedIn profile