Senior Data Analyst, Customer Operations
Scribd, Inc. · Boston, MA · 3 wk ago
Information Technology$97k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Senior Data Analyst will build the CS Analytics function and own analytics and operational insights for Customer Operations. They will partner with Customer Operations leadership & team, Product, Finance (RevOps), and Data Engineering to build trusted reporting, improve operational rhythms, and drive measurable outcomes across retention, expansion, customer health, and support efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Translate ambiguous questions into clear measurement frameworks, forecasting models, and actionable reporting.
- Create operational metrics and dashboards that are easy to use and drive action.
- Create and iterate on dashboards, KPI scorecards, and operational reporting that support day-to-day execution and executive visibility.
- Enable self-serve analytics with clear definitions, drill paths, and actionable views for CS leaders, managers, and operators.
- Create automated reporting and proactive alerting for KPI movement and risk signals, such as drops in engagement, support spikes, onboarding delays, and renewal risk.
- Develop and iterate on customer health scoring frameworks that combine usage, lifecycle events, support signals, billing signals, and qualitative inputs.
- Build forecasting models for key planning needs such as renewal volume, renewal risk, churn, expansion pipeline, ticket volume, and staffing capacity for our BPO partner.
- Evaluate and implement AI or LLM-enabled analytics workflows, including quality measurement and human-in-the-loop processes.
- Partner with Customer Operations to translate forecasts into staffing plans, coverage models, and operating cadences.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in analytics, business operations, or business intelligence roles, ideally supporting Customer Success, Customer Operations, RevOps, Support, Sales, Growth, or similar customer-facing functions.
- Experience working in a B2C subscription or membership-based business (e.g., SaaS, media, streaming, or consumer subscription), with hands-on familiarity with subscription metrics like LTV, churn, refund rate, and renewal rates.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with analytical datasets and BI tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.), with an emphasis on performance, usability, and metric governance.
- Comfortable working within an existing Databricks environment, reading gold-layer schemas, running queries, and working with Data Engineering to understand what data is available and how to use it.
- Experience with Python (or similar) for analysis, forecasting, and modeling.
- A track record of building retention, churn, renewal risk, forecasting, or related analyses and translating outputs into business action.
- A strong foundation in statistics and experimental thinking, including hypothesis testing and measurement design.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.
- Comfort working independently in an environment with evolving priorities.
Qualifications
- Comfort working within an existing Databricks environment, reading gold-layer schemas, running queries, and working with Data Engineering to understand what data is available and how to use it.
- Experience with analytics engineering practices (for example dbt-style testing, documentation, and semantic layers).
- Familiarity with SaaS subscription metrics, cohort analysis, and billing systems.
- Proficiency with Zendesk or similar customer support platforms, and comfort working directly in support tooling to extract and analyze operational data.
Skills
- Deeply analytical thinker who is curious and loves to solve problems.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
- Combines strong technical skills with an operator’s mindset and can communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Carefully builds trusted datasets, definitions, and reporting that teams can rely on.
- Turns ambiguous questions into structured analyses and measurable hypotheses.
- Creates operational metrics and dashboards that are easy to use and drive action.
- Applies AI thoughtfully, with clear success metrics and appropriate governance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Mental health support and disability coverage.
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
- Retailer matching and employee equity.
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities.
- Wellness and home office stipends.
- Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products.
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools.
Pay
The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply.
Schedule
Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.