Ignite Reading

Data Analyst

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three: a staff data scientist and two analysts, fostering a collaborative, supportive, and growth-focused environment.
• Provide technical guidance and hands-on support on high-stakes analytics and data science projects, ensuring the team has the tools, context, and skills needed to do their best work.
• Actively invest in the team’s AI fluency and utilization, evaluating emerging AI tools and techniques and leveraging Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and related tools to accelerate analytical workflows and extend team capacity.
• Own and advance program analytics in support of Ignite Reading’s Academics team, providing rigorous measurement of curriculum performance and student success, including assessment against third-party benchmarks such as DIBELS, iReady, and STAR, and conducting analyses to inform what types of interventions to develop and to determine how effective they are.
• Own and advance product analytics across Ignite Reading’s platform, measuring feature adoption, student engagement, and usage patterns to inform product strategy and prioritization.
• Help drive the development of the company’s experimentation platform, establishing best practices for experimental design, analysis, and interpretation.
• Roll up your sleeves alongside the team on selected analytics projects: responding to high-priority ad hoc requests, designing prototypes to accelerate builds, and personally owning discrete analyses end to end.
• Own sprint management, project execution, and delivery for the Product & Program Analytics team, conducting planning sessions and leading retrospectives to continuously improve team processes.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Product and Academics stakeholders, translating business and academic questions into analytical initiatives and communicating findings clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate on the team’s strategic roadmap with the VP of Data & Analytics, aligning project priorities with organizational goals and tracking progress against timelines.

Senior Manager, Product & Program Analytics