About Us

Shorelight Education is reinventing the international education experience for both students and universities. In partnership with leading U.S. institutions, we build innovative degree programs—whether on campus or cloud-based, in the United States or students’ home countries—that help students thrive and create a new generation of successful, globally minded alumni.

Job Overview

The Business Intelligence Analyst supports various senior leadership initiatives by driving cross-functional projects that support Shorelight’s corporate goals. This individual requires superb analytic abilities to help Shorelight make better data-driven decisions. The Business Intelligence Analyst is a strategic thinker who also assists with building business processes that drive growth company-wide. This position reports to Shorelight’s Chief of Staff.

Essential Functions

Data Management and Analysis

• Support multiple projects or reporting needs, using data to answer interesting and often nonintuitive questions
• As applicable, work with senior analysts on project delivery
• Create ad hoc analyses that yield clear, tangible metrics for performance assessment, improvement, and alignment
• Synthesize data to prove out key metrics of Shorelight’s corporate story
• Respond to inquiries with fully accurate, well-structured summaries of insights within very short periods of time
• Guided by end-user input, build dashboards and reports with effective design
• Acquire, clean, and structure data from multiple sources, working closely with end users (both internal and external) to represent data in various visualizations and/or dashboards and data visualization solutions (e.g., reporting and dashboards)

Cross-Functional Operations 

• Lead creation of corporate story presentations and external investor presentations
• Support creation of all board of directors’ materials
• Work cross-functionally to determine and solve the largest problems facing the business through research, analysis, and innovation
• Support the development of actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Support development of cross-functional business processes

 Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (e.g., statistics, social sciences, computer science, engineering, or equivalent)
• 2–5 years of business experience
• Experience with one or more statistical and mathematical programming packages (R, SAS, SPSS, Excel, Access)
• Ability to communicate and visualize quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
• Proven internal customer orientation and excellent problem-solving skills
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to work well under pressure and to work across several projects and tasks both independently and as part of a team
• Exemplary analytical capabilities and ability to self-motivate and think strategically about how to meet goals
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication, with adaptability
• Ability to deliver tangible results under tight deadlines
• Eligibility to work in and travel freely to and from the United States without sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with relational databases or SQL concepts
• Hands-on experience with business intelligence tools or reporting software
• Experience working with unstructured data and large datasets

Application Process

To apply for this position, please visit the Shorelight Careers page to submit an application with a resume and cover letter.

Background check required — Education, Identity, Criminal

Shorelight Education is an Equal Opportunity Employer.