Customer Analytics - Insights Analyst
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
Company Description
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Team Description
Our Business Strategy & Operations team sets and drives key business initiatives across the company. We complement and support product, engineering, sales, and marketing teams across three critical areas: corporate and business unit strategy, business planning and sales operations, and business systems and tools development.
Role Description
As an Insights Analyst, you will join the Customer Analytics team which empowers informed, customer-centric decision-making by delivering reliable, insightful, actionable analytics to customer experience teams, product managers, and senior leaders to enhance the customer experience. As an Insights Analyst you are responsible for building a foundational understanding of our customers’ needs to guide decision-making. By developing, analyzing and interpreting customer metrics and operational KPIs, this role supports and advances the company’s customer-centric vision to improve CX from beginning to end.
Your focus will be on providing actionable insights to partners through a deep understanding of the customer experience with applied analytics techniques and business insights. This role isn’t just about performing analytics - it’s also about communicating insights to the business, telling a story with data that answers the “why” as well as the “what” to inform the business strategy.
This is an individual contributor role that requires exceptional analytical skills, bias toward action, strong collaboration and communication skills and a passion for customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting processes, including defining and developing high-impact metrics aligned to business strategy, building and maintaining stakeholder dashboards, driving monthly reviews with operational rigor, and providing context for emerging trends
- Serve as a thought partner and SME for data in specific CX or product areas, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical partners to drive continuous improvement, crafting clear actionable insights to make recommendations to the business
- Perform analytics deep dives that identify opportunities to improve customer experience across the business, from product pain points to assisted or scaled support experiences
- Partner closely with CX and CSO leadership to develop and execute an analytics strategy and roadmap of deliverables aligned to business goals
- Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in a data-centric role
- Strong analytical and interpretive skills with the ability to distill copious amounts of data (qualitative, quantitative, secondary, etc.) into an insightful story with actionable recommendations for the business
- Significant experience working with large amounts of data (SQL) and a deep understanding of statistical analysis, common quantitative techniques like regression
- Experience in data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) and with querying large data lakes (e.g. Databricks)
- Proven track record of being able to drive work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction, navigating through ambiguity
- Ability to build strong relationships and work cross-functionally with stakeholders in a globally distributed team
- Team player with a strong attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Curious and analytical mindset, with the ability to create compelling narratives and actionable recommendations from their analyses
- Strong stakeholder management, up to VP level
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors or above in quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field)
- Experience with Tableau, Databricks, and Snowflake
- Experience with Python/R and git
- Experience with surveys (design, creation, maintenance, analysis)
- Experience with customer experience data and web metrics
Compensation
The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Benefits
Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
- Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance*
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance*
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Additional benefits details are available upon request.
*Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided
**Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy