Lead Business Analyst
SpeakLanguage Learning company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
Accel
Khosla Ventures
Founders Fund
OpenAI Startup Fund
Lachy Groom
Josh Buckley
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead Business Analyst to partner across functions and drive data-informed strategic decisions.
- •Speak is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to serve as a strategic analytics partner across product, growth, marketing, finance, and leadership.
- •This role will tackle ambiguous, high-stakes questions to shape company direction and ensure the organization operates on trustworthy data.
- •Key Responsibilities Partner with leaders to frame business questions and provide rigorous analysis for key decisions.
- •Bridge Finance and Marketing by connecting budget, spend efficiency, and channel outputs to revenue forecasts.
- •Own high-leverage company questions like unit economics, growth drivers, and B2C/B2B dynamics.
- •and business-review-level analysis, synthesizing business performance into clear narratives.
- •Define and govern core metric definitions as a single source of truth across the organization.
- •Requirements 4+ years in analytics, strategy, or business/finance analytics with a track record of impacting business decisions.
- •Advanced SQL, strong experience with modern analytics tools, and familiarity with dbt or semantic layers.
- •Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to analytical tasks.
- •Strong business and financial acumen, comfortable with LTV, CAC, payback, and NRR logic.
- •Ability to frame ambiguous questions, form a point of view, and communicate persuasively to diverse audiences.
Required skills
SQLdbtOpenAI APIPythonExcelPowerPointGoogle AnalyticsGA4Looker StudioProduct AnalyticsFinancial ModelingUnit EconomicsRevenue Forecasting
Domain expertise
edtechproductivity
Tech stack
SQLdbtOpenAI APIPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptExcelPowerPointGoogle AnalyticsGA4Looker Studio