Data Analyst, Life360
CA$140-165k
+ Equity
Location sharing app for families
Job no longer available
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
CA$140-165k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in programming, scripting, automation, or IT-related roles within a high-growth technology company
- Bachelor’s degree in information science, computer science, or a related field
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python, and data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI
- Experience or interest in working with financial data models (e.g., LTV, Cohort Analysis, Retention modeling, Seasonality analysis) is preferred
- Advanced analytical skills, capable of identifying fundamental patterns and trends in data
- History of collaborative work with different personalities, fostering a cohesive team environment
- Comfort and familiarity with a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
- Proficient in documenting solutions and technical specifications following standard policies and procedures
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and drive cross-functional understanding and cooperation
- Knowledgeable in technical troubleshooting methodologies and tools, with a systematic approach to problem-solving
- Experience with Netsuite, Adaptive, financial modeling, and advanced Excel skills is a plus
What the job involves
- We seek an experienced finance professional to lead the company’s cash flow forecasting and management, including review of monthly results, budget variance analysis, and managing the company’s long term cash projection model.
- Additionally, this role will serve a key role in managing reporting requirements for executive-level and Board of Directors presentations
- Enhance Financial Modeling: Continuously refine and optimize the company’s corporate financial model to meticulously track and analyze crucial metrics, assessing their profound impact on overall performance
- Forecasting Refinement: Elevate forecasting models, encompassing vital areas such as Lifetime Value (LTV), Cohort Revenue, Seasonality and Trend Analysis, Subscription Modeling, fostering seamless collaboration with broader finance and analytics teams
- Efficiency Improvement: Identify avenues for efficiency enhancement in the preparation of routine deliverables, spearheading efforts in reporting and modeling automation to streamline operations
- Innovative Solutions Development: Harness advanced SQL, Tableau, and Python programming skills to devise groundbreaking solutions for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) projects, ensuring cutting-edge methodologies drive business success
- Complex Visualizations: Conceptualize and implement intricate visualizations in Tableau, adeptly sourcing, processing, and managing data from diverse database sources to provide actionable insights
- System Integration Mastery: Cultivate a profound understanding of the company’s financial systems, orchestrating seamless data integrations between pivotal systems to optimize operational efficiency
- Data Engineering Integration: Leverage expertise in data integration and programming languages to fortify data analytics and data engineering capabilities, contributing to the organization's technological advancement
- Financial Systems Project Leadership: Lead the planning of financial systems projects, orchestrating project management endeavors and coordinating external consulting resources alongside internal business and finance teams to drive successful outcomes
- Thorough Data Analysis: Conduct comprehensive data analysis and exploration, harnessing Business Intelligence (BI) tools for self-service analytics and advanced dashboarding to unveil actionable insights
- Data Modeling Expertise: Employ robust data modeling skills to ensure the accurate representation of data for business needs, spanning data ingestion, cleaning, manipulation, and exploratory data analysis
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including data engineering, product, and platform engineering, to integrate disparate data sources and types, facilitating comprehensive insights
- Tailored Analytics Solutions: Apply profound knowledge of the finance domain to deliver bespoke analytics solutions, tailored to meet specific organizational requirements
- The Strategic Finance team supports Life360’s strategic initiatives and operational processes, partnering closely with executives and key organizational leaders to make data-driven decisions
- The team is responsible for both core finance processes, including the annual planning and monthly forecasting processes, and strategic finance support that is central to the leadership team’s financial and strategic decisions
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
34% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.1)
Trustpilot (2.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Life360 has a culture of generating hypothesises, running tests, analysing the results and iterating. This has given me so much opportunity to learn..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Founders
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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