Business Analyst - EdTech Startup - IIT

Our client is an online and blended learning platform designed to empower working professionals tomeet their learning objectives and accelerate their career progression. It believes that the only wayprofessionals can keep up with the rapidly changing business world is through continuous learning andaspires to be their life-long learning partner.

The different programmes offered by the company include:

a) A year -long blended learning programme that is comprehensive and provides an alternative to full-time programmes for professionals who cannot afford time away from work and

b) Online mentored learning programmes that are focused on specific competencies for professionalswho learn better with regular learning support.

The Business Analytics Program offered by them has been ranked among the top 3 in India byleading analytics magazines, Analytics India and Analytics Vidhya. The program is now offered across 5centers in India and will soon launch internationally. It also offers a modular and flexible MBAequivalent program, the PGPM-Ex, where learners can learn and develop competencies as per theirspecific stage of career needs. BACP is an online mentored learning program that enables learners tobuild their competency in business analytics without location constraints.

Their programs are offered in partnership with Great Lakes Institute of Management, one ofIndias leading business schools. The programs are designed with inputs from both the word class facultyat Great Lakes as well as highly experienced industry experts to ensure high quality and practicallyrelevant learning outcomes to learners across India and abroad.

Their team comprises of passionate individuals having an excellent blend of entrepreneurialand academic experience. Its founding team has been part of multiple successful startups in the US andIndia and have built businesses from concept to exit through acquisitions, besides having been educated attop global institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, IIT Mumbai, Duke, MDI and IIM Ahmedabad. It isalso advised by a distinguished academic advisory board comprised of highly experienced academiciansfrom both the US and India.

Their team has a culture driven by

a) innovation and of challenging the status quo which has enabled it to develop and launch a variety ofprograms to meet the requirements of the market

b) customer centricity pro-actively learning and understanding the evolving requirements of its keystakeholders and responding to them

c) mutual respect and empowerment where team members are empowered and expected to achieveorganizations objectives with minimal supervision and mutual accountability

The company has seen a 100 times growth in the number of registered learners in three years, and 20times revenue growth from the first to third year. The team has grown from five to 45 and now has officesin Bengaluru and Gurgaon

Key Responsibilities :

- Use data and insights derived from data analysis to drive processes improvements so that the company's business requirements are met

- Design experiments across user groups to identify attributes that lead to higher engagement, satisfaction and course completion

- Analyze data across assessments (grades, submissions), attendance and user engagement (logins, reading content, watching videos etc) to look for behavioral patterns

- Develop models that predict the likely hood of falling behind / dropping out and design interventions to prevent this

- Design and improve management dashboards to visualize performance and progress of various batches

- Work closely and cross-functionally with program managers, technology and admissions teams to understand business requirements

Candidate Profile:

- Bachelors from a premier engineering college such as a top ranked IIT (candidates with quantitative backgrounds such as in mathematics can also be considered)

- 2 to 3 years work experience in analytics (e.g. financial services, consulting, eCommerce, retail, operations etc)

- Prior experience in designing data driven experiments to derive insights about user behavior

- Prior experience in leading process improvement efforts that resulted in business impact

- Ability to tell a story from data

- Excellent project management and communication skills

- Academically inclined with deep interest in helping participants learn

- Experience with teaching or Ed-Tech a plus