Senior Data Analyst

About Homeward

Homeward aims to take the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that buyers and sellers use to get certainty and convenience in the real estate market. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first, real estate start-up that partners with agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move — no matter the market. We offer bundled services across offers, Mortgage, and Title, making buying a home more seamless. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer four services -- Buy with Cash, Buy Before You Sell, Sell Before You List, and Backed by Cash, in the 7 states we serve -- Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.

As a remote company, we anchor to our three core values as a collective way to care for each other, represent our work, and reinforce our mission to make homebuying more accessible for all. Those are: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them

About the opportunity

This role will work on providing support to core teams including Operations, Sales, Finance, and Product. This role will involve analyzing key areas within these teams, developing metrics, and building standardized reporting, while maintaining and driving meaningful, clean, and concise data while we continue to scale. Additionally, this role will collaborate with key stakeholders to provide the data they need and deliver solutions, helping to elevate their understanding and use of data to drive team and business insights. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, technical, and visualization experience to build, improve, and drive towards the continued growth and success for our teams.

In this role you will:

• Report to our Director of Business Analytics and partner with stakeholders to develop a business analytics roadmap for improving the company wide availability, speed and quality of data/analysis that accelerates decision making
• Design and deliver a broad range of outputs; root cause analysis, dashboards, deep-dive analysis, segmentation work, etc
• Develop expertise in Homeward’s data platform, including its generation and storage processes, limitations and expectations, and best practices for data cleaning and modeling using dbt and Looker.
• Provide innovative analytical insights while understanding their limitations and exceptions, to support various functions across Homeward
• Assist with the development and ongoing refinement of Homeward’s canonical data model in partnership with the data engineering and product teams
• Support development, maintenance, and organization of performance reporting and management dashboards for all of Homeward’s functional areas of operations and optimizations

What you’ll bring:

• 4+ years of proven experience in analytics, business intelligence or comparable role; preference for experience within high-growth startups
• Experience creating, maintaining, supporting metrics within a BI tool (Looker, Tableau, etc)
• Expert proficiency in SQL; bonus points for experience with Python
• Knowledge of ETL and tools (dbt preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize independently generated data points into a cohesive analysis, and clearly communicate the results of complex analyses to a wide audience in a credible fashion
• Strong organizational, planning, quantitative and analytical skills; strategic and creative thinking with keen business judgment, focus, and ability to see the "big picture"
• Excellent interpersonal skills and have experience working directly with senior leadership

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Tangible experience building something from the ground up

Perks & Benefits:

• Compensation: $110,000 - $120,000
• Company-wide bonus
• Remote-first environment (our headquarters are in Austin, TX)
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee 
• 401(k) employer contribution match 
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits here

Value-Driven Employee Experience

THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.