Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 53 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education. Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life. We now need a results-driven Data Scientist to join our Enterprise Data & Analytics team.

• Provide quantitative support, market understanding, and a strategic perspective to our partners throughout the organization
• Demonstrate analytical expertise and thought leadership with quantitative analyses to help Success Academy make better decisions
• Identify and measure success of efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key metrics to understand trends
• Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve operations through insights and recommendations

• Degree in a technical field like Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Operations Research, or Physics. Graduate degree preferred.
• At least 3 years of experience working within a corporation or consumer-focused environment in a Data Science capacity
• Strong presentation and data visualization skills to communicate data analysis in compelling ways
• Proficient data wrangler with strong technical skills in SQL. Preferably also proficient in a fast prototyping language (either Python or R)
• Understands when analytical sophistication is required and when an Excel projection will be best
• Proven expertise in data science and analytics, probability and statistics, time-series analysis, pattern recognition, optimization, and/or predictive modeling
• Ability to lead projects independently and communicate effectively across the organization
• Ability to collaborate with data analysts, software engineers, business partners and other stakeholders and act as an evangelist for data science/analytics principles and practices