Business Analyst

Location: Bengaluru (On-site)

Experience: 2-5 Years

Team: Business Analytics

Company: STAN

About STAN:

STAN is India's leading gaming and creator platform, connecting millions of gamers, creators, and communities through interactive experiences, commerce, and social engagement. As we continue our rapid global expansion, we're looking for a highly analytical Business Analyst who can transform data into business decisions. You'll work directly with founders and business leaders to uncover insights, build dashboards, and influence strategy across Product, Growth, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

About the Role:

As a Business Analyst, you'll own business reporting, analytics, and strategic insights that help leadership make faster and smarter decisions. This is a highly visible role requiring strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and the ability to derive meaningful insights from large datasets. If you're someone who enjoys asking "Why did this happen?" rather than just "What happened?", you'll thrive in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analytics:

- Build and maintain business dashboards to track company-wide KPIs.

- Analyze user behavior, revenue, growth, retention, and operational metrics.

- Identify trends, business opportunities, and operational bottlenecks through data analysis.

- Translate complex datasets into actionable recommendations for leadership.

Data & Reporting:

- Write complex SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.

- Build and maintain ETL workflows to ensure reliable and accurate business reporting.

- Automate recurring reports and improve reporting efficiency.

- Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across reporting systems.

Strategic Decision Support:

- Partner directly with Founders and business leaders on strategic initiatives.

- Conduct deep-dive analyses to evaluate business performance and product impact.

- Build executive dashboards and presentations for leadership reviews.

- Support forecasting, business planning, and decision-making with data-backed insights.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

- Work closely with Product, Growth, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams.

- Define business metrics and measurement frameworks.

- Drive a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Must Have:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree from IIT, NIT, BITS Pilani, IIIT, or other Tier-1 engineering institutes.

- 2-5 years of experience in Business Analytics, Product Analytics, Strategy, Data Analytics, or Founder's Office roles.

- Strong proficiency in SQL (advanced querying, joins, CTEs, window functions, aggregations).

- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining ETL pipelines.

- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts.

- Experience working with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Metabase, or Superset.

- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills.

- Exceptional analytical thinking and structured problem-solving ability.

Preferred Experience:

- Experience in Consumer Internet, Gaming, Marketplace, FinTech, E-commerce, SaaS, or Creator Economy companies.

- Working knowledge of Python (Pandas, NumPy) or R for analytics.

- Experience with BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, or Databricks.

- Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and cohort analysis.

- Experience working with large-scale business data.

What We're Looking For:

High Business Acumen:

- Ability to understand business problems beyond numbers.

- Strong commercial mindset with the ability to connect data to business outcomes.

- Comfortable presenting insights and recommendations directly to leadership.

Analytical Excellence:

- Curious, detail-oriented, and highly data-driven.

- Ability to identify patterns, trends, and root causes from complex datasets.

- Strong quantitative and logical reasoning skills.

Ownership Mindset:

- Takes complete ownership of dashboards, reporting, and business insights.

- Works independently and proactively identifies opportunities for improvement.

Startup DNA:

- Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

- Comfortable working with ambiguity and changing priorities.

- Bias for action and execution.

Success Metrics:

- Accuracy and reliability of business dashboards.

- Speed of delivering actionable insights.

- Impact of recommendations on business growth and operational efficiency.

- Automation of reporting and ETL processes.

- Stakeholder satisfaction with analytics support.

- Improvement in key business KPIs through data-driven decisions.

Why Join STAN?:

- Work directly with Founders on high-impact strategic initiatives.

- Influence decisions across Product, Growth, Finance, Marketing, and Operations.

- Solve business problems at the intersection of gaming, creators, AI, and commerce.

- High ownership, accelerated career growth, and meaningful ESOPs.

- Be part of one of India's fastest-growing gaming and creator-tech companies.

If you're passionate about solving business problems with data, have exceptional business acumen, and want to build products and strategies that impact millions of users, we'd love to hear from you.