Head of Data Analytics

Buddy.ai is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to transform our company into a data-driven powerhouse. You'll play a crucial role in enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions, uncover game-changing insights, and supercharge our product's impact on children's English learning journey.

Buddy.ai, the world’s first AI tutor for kids under 12

Buddy.ai provides affordable, high-quality 1X1 instruction to children worldwide using our interactive, voice-based character Buddy the Robot.

Buddy is powered by proprietary AI technology for children and features a unique UX and gameplay. He teaches kids using voice- and tap-based games in a fun-filled world created by educational experts.

With 20 million downloads last year alone, Buddy is the most popular language app for children on Google Play and one of TIME Magazine’s World's Top EdTech Rising Stars of 2024. We are backed by top VCs and angel investors, including stars of the game industry, deep tech, and Hollywood.

Here’s a short video about Buddy.ai.

Your Mission

Transform Buddy.ai into a data-driven powerhouse, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions, uncover game-changing insights, and supercharge our product's impact on children's English learning journey.

Objectives & Outcomes

• Boost data-driven decision-making and cultivate a data-driven culture across the company.
• Optimize and maintain robust Data Warehouse pipelines.
• Establish and oversee a comprehensive reporting system for key teams (Core Experience, Parental Communications, User Acquisition and Marketing, Buddy for Schools) with monthly updates and quarterly in-depth analyses.
• Identify and implement North Star metrics for business, product, and education.
• Achieve 99.9% data integrity and reliability.
• Increase the speed of hypothesis testing and validation.
• Implement a robust A/B testing process, reducing time-to-decision.
• Regularly suggest product and marketing improvement hypotheses based on your data analysis.

Competencies

• Data Scientist: Comprehensive data analysis experience.
• Data Storyteller: Transforms complex data into compelling narratives that drive action.
• Data Engineer: SQL Ninja, ETL scripting, DWH data pipelines. Organize daily dashboards for the team.
• Business Acumen: Sees the big picture and connects data dots to achieve high-level business goals.
• Idea Generator: Personally offers ideas based on data to impact the business or inspire product and marketing teams. Independently analyzes data to generate insights for the Product and Marketing Team.
• Proactive Problem-Solver: Takes initiative, proposes solutions, and acts without waiting for detailed instructions.
• Perfectionist: Strives for excellence, aiming to work with A-players and learn from the best.
• Team Lead: Able to organize Analytics team from scratch.
• Startupper: Survives in a startup environment.

Gameplay (Here’s what You'll Do)

• Be the first professional data analyst at Buddy.ai.
• Optimize and enhance existing data analysis infrastructure.
• Take ownership of Buddy's data, ensuring its consistency and reliability. Be the go-to person for all things data-related.
• Create insightful reports and dashboards that help stakeholders make informed decisions.
• Lead the A/B testing process, working with stakeholders to design, implement, and analyze experiments.
• Dive deep into data to uncover business and product insights, generating hypotheses to improve key metrics.
• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to develop predictive metrics for faster decision-making.
• Foster a data-driven culture across the company, empowering teams to make informed decisions.
• Work with various data visualization tools like Tableau and Amplitude to bring data to life.

Data Stack to Play With

• Collect: Firebase, Amplitude, Segment
• Store: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, S3, GCP Buckets
• Request: Complex SQL
• Visualize: Tableau, Amplitude
• Automation: Python/JS/Java
• IaC: Terraform

Position details

• Geography: Fully remote, based between Pacific Time Zone (Los Angeles, U.S.) and GMT+3 (Istanbul).
• Language: Must speak English. Russian is a plus.
• Remote position: 100% remote with 2-4 strategic offsite sessions per year.
• Compensation and benefits:
  • Competitive market salary
  • Paid sick leave and vacation days
  • Significant equity compensation (stock options)

We at Buddy.ai are leading the AI revolution in early learning. Our mission is to make 1X1 tutoring available for every child worldwide and help resolve the global teacher shortage. Here’s what sets our company apart:

• Unique product: At Buddy.ai, we are pioneering the Multimodal AI Tutoring approach, which means our tutor is a virtual character that uses voice recognition and conversational AI to teach children. Buddy is the first product of its kind, so we innovate, brainstorm, prototype, playtest on children in a lab, and AB test using real users.

• The leading consumer AI company in the early learning space: We have millions of users, and that number doubles year after year. Buddy is not another ChatGPT wrapper; we are developing proprietary AT technology for children that’s safe, fast, and compliant with COPPA and other regulations.

• High-level position with significant creative freedom: You’ll report directly to the Chief Product Officer, which means you’ll have lots of decision-making authority. Your ideas and decisions will affect the whole company and millions of our students/players worldwide.

• Mission-driven project: Our Company is inspired by our team’s experiences as immigrants and parents, as well as those of our children.

• Impact and love: It’s a great feeling knowing that you are building an educational product that helps children thrive. You can always draw inspiration and satisfaction from the love of Buddy’s users.

• Perfect job for Moms and Dads: Many (in fact, most) of our team members are parents. We draw inspiration from our children's experiences with Buddy.ai. It is a special feeling when your child admiringly asks, “Mom, did you really create Buddy?

• Friendly, open, and informal work environment: Our small (but growing) team is horizontally structured. All product and financial metrics are openly discussed because we work collaboratively and share everything. No politics, no BS — we work hard and have a lot of fun in the process.

• Contribution and growth: A small team means the opportunity for a large individual impact. The Company is growing fast, which allows team members to grow with it and create a lasting legacy.

• 100% Remote work with a flexible schedule/Generous paid sick leave and vacation days.

• A share of our success: This key role grants a Stock Option because when we win, we win together.

Join us in our mission to provide high-quality 1X1 tutoring to every child worldwide using AI!