Senior Business Analyst, Academia
$175-215k
+ Stock options
2 days a week in office (Financial District, San Francisco )
A platform for academics to share research papers
Open for applications
A platform for academics to share research papers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$175-215k
+ Stock options
2 days a week in office (Financial District, San Francisco )
101-200 employees
Company mission
Academia.edu is on a mission to accelerate the world's research. Their goal is to speed up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Don’t know the following tools? If you bring the knowledge of how to solve business problems, we’re happy to teach you the technical skills
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Academia.edu is pitched as a social media platform to help researchers and academics share papers for free - with over 185 million registered users and over 30 million visitors per month, it has remained an active and popular platform since its founding in 2008.
The company has had a chequered relationship with the academics it proposes to serve (and the institutions it intends to disrupt). Some claim the new paywalled suite of features runs counter to the free and open-access model; others balk at their use of the .edu domain usually reserved for academic institutions (they registered before its use became restricted).
Perhaps to overcome these obstacles, and to give them an edge over the increasing preference for competitors like ResearchGate and Google Scholar, Academia.edu have taken some interesting steps. One was to develop a mobile app for the platform. Another was the early 2020 acquisition of entrepreneurial training and toolkit platform The Start-Up Gate. This latter decision could signal an exciting new developmental direction for Academia.edu - but thus far, the motivation remains unclear.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$23m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$16m
SERIES C
Total funding: $56.2m
Company benefits
- 21 days of paid vacation and 11 paid holidays per year
- 8 weeks of paid bonding parental leave plus 8 weeks of birth parent leave
- 6 weeks of fully-paid sabbatical leave for every four years you work here
- Book stipend
- Catered lunch
- Stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- 401k
- FSA
- Activities
- Commuter benefits
Company values
- Mission Oriented
- Kindness
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Richard Price
(CEO)Studied PPE at Oxford, going on to complete a PhD in Philosophy. Founded two other businesses: LiveOut.co.uk, and PeopleRadar.co.uk. For 7 years was a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University.
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