Business Analyst

Business Analyst role at Turing.com

Turing, a Fast Company's - Most Innovative Company and Series B fast-scaling startup with $50MM backing from leading venture firms is looking for Data Engineers to join a team that is remaking a $1-trillion market.

About Turing:

Designed for a "remote first world," Turing's Intelligent Talent Cloud lets companies "push a button" to hire and manage remote software developers. Turing uses advanced data science to automate the sourcing, vetting, matching, and management of remote developers worldwide. Turing's Talent Cloud includes more than 500,000 developers from 10,000 cities around the world.

Turing's mission is to help every remote-first technology company build boundaryless teams and democratize software developers' opportunities worldwide.

Turing enables U.S. companies to hire the world's best remote software engineers. 100+ companies including those backed by Sequoia, Andreessen, Google Ventures, Benchmark, Founders Fund, Kleiner, Lightspeed, and Bessemer have hired Turing engineers. For more than 180,000 engineers across 140 countries, we are the preferred platform for finding remote U.S. software engineering roles. We offer a wide range of full-time remote opportunities for full-stack, backend, frontend, DevOps, mobile, and AI/ML engineers.

Turing has been growing rapidly and has raised over $60 Million in Venture Capital. Some of our investors are:

- Facebook's 1st CTO and Quora's Co-Founder (Adam D'Angelo)

- Executives from Google, Facebook, Square, Amazon, and Twitter

- Foundation Capital (investors in Uber, Netflix, Chegg, Lending Club, etc.)

- Cyan Banister

- Founder of Upwork (Beerud Sheth)

Turing's investors include WestBridge Capital (formerly Sequoia India), Foundation Capital, Adam D'Angelo (Facebook's first CTO & CEO of Quora), Founders Fund, Lightspeed Scout Fund, Gokul Rajaram, Cyan Banister, Beerud Sheth (founder of Upwork), Manik Gupta (Uber's former Chief Product Officer), Jeff Morris Jr, as well as executives from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Turing is led by successful repeat founders Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, whose last A.I. company leveraged elite remote talent and had a successful acquisition. (Techcrunch story). Turing's leadership team is composed of ex-Engineering and Sales leadership from Facebook, Google, Uber, and Capgemini.

Some articles about Turing :

- TechCrunch; Turingnabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely. The Information: Six Startups Prospering During Coronavirus

- Cyan Banister: Turing Helps the World Level Up

- Jonathan Siddharth (Turing CEO): The Future of Work is Remote.

What you can expect :

- Identify business challenges & opportunities for product/service improvements and solve them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations.

- Apply your expertise in data cleaning & wrangling, quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with both our consumer and business products.

- Partner with Product, Operation and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.

- Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches.

- Forecasting and setting product team goals, designing and evaluating experiments, monitoring key product metrics and understanding root causes of changes in metrics.

- Conceptualize dashboards/reports basis business requirements. Building and analyzing dashboards and reports, building key data sets to empower operational and exploratory analysis, and evaluating and defining metrics.

- Proposing what to build in the next roadmap, understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends, identifying new levers to help move key metrics, and building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems.

- Influencing product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations, communicating state of business, experiment results, etc. to product teams and spreading best practices to analytics and product teams.

What you should know :

- 3 - 8 years of experience in Business Analytics

- Bachelor's / Master's Degree/MA or PHD with a focus in Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science or Engineering

- Ability to structure business requirement into series of analyses and performing quantitative data analysis, .writing reports writing and presenting findings

- Data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, MATLAB)

- Structured thinker: Ability to structure business requirement into

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

- Applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting

- Communicating the results of analyses to product or leadership teams to influence the strategy.