Data Analyst

About Uphold

One of the fastest-growing fintech companies, Uphold is pursuing a mission to democratize investments and payments for people and companies worldwide. Founded in 2014, the Silicon Valley firm today has more than 10 million users in over 150 countries and is currently experiencing exponential growth. A bridge between old and new money systems, Uphold allows people to buy, exchange and send more than 270 cryptocurrencies, precious metals,, and fiat currencies instantly. Uphold has a truly global footprint with offices in the United States, Portugal and the United Kingdom and provides a stimulating and challenging home for the best talent.

If you’re a Rockstar and this sounds interesting and challenging, we want to hear from you.

The opportunity:

Uphold is looking for a Data Analyst to join our Data team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to join a team of engineers, scientists, and analysts that are passionate about data and technology with a great sense of collaboration and responsibility.

You’ll be responsible for translating key metrics into data-driven insights that enable our company to optimize business processes, empower financial decisions and drive the product roadmap. You will also bring domain expertise to the table, advocating for data-driven decision-making at each and every department in the company.

At Uphold you will be able to work in a very fertile environment to bring your ideas to life, while integrated in a fast-paced industry.

What you’ll be doing primarily:

• Conduct in-depth data explorations and analysis to be consumed by senior management, marketing, product and finance teams to enhance targeting, increase revenue, and allocate resources more efficiently.
• Translate business questions and objectives into concrete metrics and KPIs.
• Implement and automate dashboards and reports that feed on data to support decision-making.
• Communicate results clearly, concisely, and assertively, either orally or via well-documented resources.
• Design customized interfaces to expose internal data to key stakeholders.
• Guarantee data quality on both operational systems and offline datasets.
• Help data engineers on the design, implementation, and maintenance of data pipelines.
• Researching competitors, adjacent markets, and current market trends to discover new business and process opportunities.
• Develop domain expertise on digitized financial assets to bring an advanced level of understanding to analyses.
• Contribute to the definition of overarching processes and practices across the Data Team and the rest of the company.
• Evangelize a data-driven culture throughout Uphold multiple business units.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, economics, statistics, informatics, data science, or engineering.
• Experience working with BI/dashboarding tools such as Looker, Metabase, Tableau, PowerBI, SiSense.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Good knowledge of probability and statistics.
• Experience summarizing data analyses into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and written.
• Experience working with data warehousing solutions in a cloud-based environment.
• Knowledge about data modeling on database management systems.
• Creativity, curiosity, and a growth mindset.
• Team player with an ability to work within cross-functional teams.
• Value and results-oriented, with a keen eye for quality of deliverables.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Experience working with database systems such as PostgreSQL and Snowflake.
• Fluency in cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and other digitized financial instruments.
• Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your areas of interests.
• Open-source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.

Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.

What we have to offer you:

• An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
• An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
• Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
• A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee, and other great benefits.
• Open and transparent culture – we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
• Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.

Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing financial services. Apply now!