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About G2 - The Company

G2 is the world\'s largest and most trusted software marketplace. When you join G2, you’re joining the industry’s leading team that helps businesses reach their peak potential by powering decisions and strategies with trusted insights from real software users.

Now, we have joined forces with Capterra, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp to create the largest source of online data and software insights to fuel intelligent buying in the age of AI. With 200M+ combined annual visitors and 6M verified reviews, we are now the centralized place to enable software buyers to make better and faster decisions with confidence.

And we are just getting started! We are setting out to transform the global B2B software industry and become the most trusted data foundation for buyers and sellers of software for the age of AI.

Does that sound exciting to you? Come join us as we try to reach our next PEAK!

About G2 - Our People

At G2, everything we are and what we do is grounded in our PEAK values— (Performance + Entrepreneurship + Authenticity + Kindness. Working at G2 means you are part of a value-driven, growing global community that climbs PEAKs together. We cheer for each other’s successes, learn from our mistakes, and support and lean on one another during challenging times. With ambition and entrepreneurial spirit we push each other to take on challenging work, which will help us all to grow and learn.

You will be part of a global, diverse team of smart, dedicated, and kind individuals - each with unique talents, aspirations, and life experiences. At the heart of our community and culture are our people-led ERGs, which celebrate and highlight the diverse identities of our global team. As an organization, we are intentional about our DEI and philanthropic work (like our G2 Gives program) because it encourages us all to be better people.

G2 is looking for a Lead Data Analyst which will provide descriptive and diagnostic analysis to inform product decision-making, evaluate performance and make tactical recommendations.

• Provide descriptive and diagnostic analysis to inform product decision-making, evaluate performance and make tactical recommendations.

• Support and guide project-based work using analytic tools to produce datasets for analysis.

• Use BI tools to empower end users with timely, accurate and informative data and visualizations.

• Design dashboards to monitor KPIs and business drivers and ensure all metrics are consistent with business strategy.

• Discuss questions and hypotheses with external and internal customers based on deep data analysis, and act as the G2 Data SME, turn them into analysis and insights.

• Lead team discussions and collaborates with technical and non-technical team members to solve business problems.

• Provide guidance and coaching to jr. team members, helping them understand complex datasets/models/business requirements.

• Identify opportunities to improve our reporting and additional data management tasks you discover in your analysis. 

We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. Even if you don’t check all the boxes in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. 

•  Bachelor’s degree (foreign equivalent degree acceptable) in Data Analytics or a related field plus four (4) years of experience in data analysis role.

• Must have four (4) years of experience in (experience may be gained concurrently):

  • designing dashboards and enabling self-serve analytics through Business Intelligence tools;

  • relational database modeling or experience in building reporting layers within Business Intelligence tooling;

  • Postgres and SQL databases;

  • performing QA on complex SQL queries for bugs, optimization and performance;

  • statistical programming with R or Python for the purposes of solving business Questions;

  • A/B testing and product analytics.

• Remote work permitted five (5) days a week.

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