Academia.edu is a venture-backed, for-profit business based in San Francisco. Our mission is to accelerate the world's research, and we have spent the last 14 years building the largest online network for sharing and finding academic research and connecting with other academics around the world. With over 250MM users and nearly half of the world's academics using our platform every month, we are well positioned to achieve our mission.
About the role
Senior Business Analysts at Academia.edu unearth large growth opportunities by analyzing our trove of data, and help product teams deliver value to users and growth for the business. Each team includes a dedicated product manager, product designer, engineers and user researchers, and each team owns a single product or initiative. We rotate teams every 6-12 months to keep the work engaging and the ideas flowing. As an embedded member of a cross-functional product team, you would solve problems like improving the slow-moving academic publishing market, or connecting academics with others around the world to share and collaborate on ideas. As a Senior Business Analyst your analytic superpowers will thrive here. If you’re excited to use data to identify opportunities, analyze and interpret test results to identify business growth opportunities, conceive ideas to realize those opportunities, and make recommendations to product teams and executive management, then apply now! We look forward to meeting you!
Please note that this role is in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're excited to have a packed and lively office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Twice a week those of us in the Bay Area come to our office located in the Financial District for All Hands, intense collaboration, brainstorming activities, and fun events. There are small rooms for 1-1 mentoring sessions or heads down work, and larger rooms for team activities. We continue to support a flexible work environment for all of life’s surprises and needs with generous time off and flexible work schedules.
Academia is a proud equal-opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
How you’ll contribute:
- Proactively find opportunities for business growth, development, and scaling, identifying opportunities for the product team and the business
- Gather, analyze, and interpret data to inform product strategy and product roadmap
- Define key metrics, design and maintain dashboards, and lead business reporting for your cross-functional product team
- Design and interpret results of experiments
The skills and experiences you bring to succeed (absolute requirements):
- 2 years minimum experience consulting with one of the following firms: Bain & Company, McKinsey, BCG, Oliver Wyman, LEK. At this time we cannot interview candidates who do not meet this requirement
- 1 year minimum additional experience post consulting, with a B2C digital product in growth, strategy, operations, or analytics
- Experience applying critical thinking to business needs and problems, and identifying opportunities
- Experience with Excel or Google Sheets for analysis and reporting
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, including a proven ability to influence decision making
- Ability to autonomously seek information, gather resources, and deliver results without waiting for direction
- A work style oriented around results and creating impact
The tools you’ll use to succeed:
- Knowledge of SQL and databases (we use Redshift) with the ability to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
- Python or R skills is a strong plus, but not necessary to apply
- Mode for dashboarding and DBT for data transformations or similar tools also a plus, but not necessary to apply
Benefits and Perks:
- Competitive salary, stock options & 401k
- Fully-covered medical, dental, & vision insurance for employees & dependents
- Flexible hours, 21 days of paid vacation, 12 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave
- Budget for professional development, team building, and books
- Six weeks of fully-paid sabbatical leave for every four years you work here.
What We Do
Academia.edu has built and is expanding the premier distribution and peer review platform for academic research. Guided by our mission to democratize and accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. This is just the start of our long-term vision and we are growing fast!
Academia’s platform has registered more than 250 million users (still growing at 2-3M monthly), and has many millions of unique visitors every month, including over 100M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to us being profitable YOY the last three years in a row.
Academia has attracted $39 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.
Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Why Work With Us
At our San Francisco office, experience a blend of picturesque workdays and remote flexibility. Our consistent positive cash flow, strategic executive hires, and recent $23M series D funding underline our stability and innovation. Engage with a passionate team; we've grown to ~110 employees with ~45 dedicated engineers.
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Academia.edu Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
All new employees based in North America to work hybrid: 2 days in-office on Tuesdays and Thursdays at our San Francisco, California office and may work from home for the rest of week.