Overview
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Founded in 2007, the company has grown significantly and serves 500K+ customers in 175+ countries. We are seeking a GTM Data Analyst to join our team.
What You’ll Do: You’ll partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Finance (FP&A), primarily focusing on building, maintaining, and enhancing the reports and dashboards they rely on daily. Your work will translate complex data into clear visualizations that drive efficient decision making and operational efficiency at Backblaze.
Responsibilities
- Data Aggregation: Build and maintain scalable, robust data tables and views in Snowflake by aggregating data from various sources like Salesforce, product data, HubSpot, Outreach, Gong.
- Data Integrity: Ensure the accuracy and defensibility of all reporting by designing data tables thoughtfully, validating source data, and maintaining documentation.
- Dashboard Development: Design, build, and maintain high-impact reports and dashboards in Tableau to monitor business performance, track key revenue metrics, and pinpoint growth opportunity drivers.
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all reports and dashboards to ensure consistency, transparency, and ease of knowledge transfer.
- Strategic Insights: Proactively extract and communicate sharp, actionable insights from business trends to support critical decision-making for Sales, Operations, and Finance teams.
- Problem-Solving: Apply strong problem-solving skills to break down complex business questions and develop practical, data-driven solutions.
Requirements
- Experience: 3+ years in a data analytics role, specifically within a B2B SaaS environment.
- Advanced SQL: Expert-level ability to write complex queries to extract, transform, and model data within a data warehouse.
- Visualization: Experience with visualization tools like Tableau or similar.
- Data Ecosystem Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Tableau, and Salesforce data objects.
- AI Integration: Ability to thoughtfully and effectively leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency and produce accurate, actionable data analysis.
Business Acumen & Soft Skills
- Business Intelligence: Understanding of core Sales, Marketing, and Finance concepts and KPIs (e.g., Quota Attainment, Sales Cycle, Bookings, Lead to Opportunity Conversion Rates, Win Rates).
- Communication: Strong ability to convey complex analytical findings and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders.
- Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail to ensure correctness and defensibility of analysis, providing stakeholders with reliable, single-source metrics.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Math, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Finance, Computer Science, etc.).
Culture & Equal Opportunity
At Backblaze, we value fairness and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, or education. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.