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Business Data Analyst

Remote Role - Pittsburgh, PA Headquarters Office

Salary Range: $70-90K

About Us

BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to solve business problems through discovering the humans in their data and understanding how they think. Serving diverse industries including energy, retail, finance, and transportation, BlastPoint’s software platform helps companies plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team.

Why You Should Work for Us

• Solve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.
• Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).
• Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.
• Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

Job Description

As a Business Data Analyst at BlastPoint with a focus in data visualization and storytelling, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between data and customer decision-making. This position requires a unique blend of technical aptitude, business acumen, and communication skills. You will be responsible for constructing business-ready presentations, ensuring data integrity, quality assurance, and providing actionable insights to both our internal teams and diverse clientele.

Primary duties for this position include:

• Engage with Customer Success, “Support evolving business objectives by flexibly adopting new responsibilities over time.”Data Engineering, and Data Science teams to develop business-focused data solutions including: leading and participating in customer-facing meetings, gathering client requirements, documenting use cases, etc.
• Convert data insights into visually engaging presentations and customer-facing materials that help clients better understand and utilize their data.
• Partner with Implementation Management to identify and address any gaps in client data necessary for analysis.
• Leverage proprietary in-house tools for data transformation, preparation, and analysis.
• Perform the appropriate data mapping and aggregation guidance required to enable data engineering and data science processes, leveraging client-provided data and reference materials..
• Support upstream platform onboarding processes by creating and reviewing attribute metadata.
• Conduct rigorous quality control checks on all data prior to client presentations.
• Become a power user of the BlastPoint platform.
• Collaborate with Customer Success in platform staging and other necessary preparations to ensure smooth client onboarding.
• Manage multiple client projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.
• Adapt and expand responsibilities as the role evolves with organizational needs.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the role by taking on new duties as business priorities shift.

Professional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Business Management, Business Analytics, Data Science, Marketing, or related fields.
• Intermediate to advanced expertise in spreadsheet or BI software.
• Ability to translate data science into use case specific customer-facing collateral.
• Strong grasp of data analysis from a business perspective.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Flexibility to accommodate US-based customer time zones.
• Independent work ethic in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Subject to a background check.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Comfortable using IDEs, terminal for database querying.
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python pandas.
• Familiarity with Git and task tracking tools like Asana.
• Proficiency with leveraging Canva, Google Slides, or similar web-based graphic design tools for data visualization.
• Experience integrating LLMs with post-editing into content creation workflows
• Acute attention to data quality and detail.
• Problem-solving mindset and adaptability to various solutions.
• Willingness to travel to Pittsburgh, PA office and to customer sites periodically (2-4 times annually).