Data Analyst

Outset; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Outset is redefining qualitative insights with AI-powered user interviews and a growing data stack. This role analyzes internal data, designs AI-enabled workflows, and ships small internal tools to automate recurring reporting.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a data analyst, analytics engineer, or BI role with real SQL and Python fluency.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to build scripts, agents, or automations—not just summarizing text.
• Builder's instinct: automate recurring manual steps instead of repeating them.
• Ability to translate vague stakeholder asks into specific, well-scoped answers.
• Clear written communication to explain findings to non-technical audiences.
• Experience at a startup where the data stack was still being built, not inherited mature.
• Familiarity with modern BI/data tools (dbt, Looker, Hex, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Answer recurring business questions across GTM, People, Product and Engineering using SQL, Python, and AI tooling.
• Build small internal tools—vibe-coded apps, Slack bots, scripts, lightweight dashboards, AI skills—that eliminate manual reports.
• Partner with stakeholders to determine needs before building anything.
• Maintain and improve data pipelines so numbers are trustworthy.
• Evaluate new AI tools and workflows for internal adoption vs. hype.
• Document what you build so others can run it independently.
• Flag data quality issues and inconsistent definitions early.

Skills

SQL

Python

AI tooling experience

Strong communication

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

dbt

Looker

Hex

AI tooling utilities

Job description

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.

The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.

Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.

This analyst turns Outset's own data into decisions faster than a traditional analytics hire would, by using AI tools as a core part of the workflow rather than bolting them on afterward. They're as comfortable writing a SQL query to understand critical business data accurately, as they are building a small internal tool, script, or AI skill that answers a recurring question without a human re-running it every week.

The job is part analysis, part automation - someone who'd rather build the dashboard-that-builds-itself than ship the same report by hand twice. Improving processes and workflows across the company excites them and they love to build tools to help internal teams across the business move, manage and understand data.

Responsibilities

• Answer recurring business questions across GTM, People, Product and Engineering using SQL, Python, and whatever AI tooling gets there fastest.

• Build small internal tools - vibe coded apps, Slack bots, scripts, lightweight dashboards, AI skills - that eliminate a manual report or a repeated ad hoc request.

• Partner with stakeholders to figure out what they actually need before building anything.

• Maintain and improve data pipelines so the underlying numbers are trustworthy, not just the tools on top of them.

• Evaluate new AI tools and workflows as they come out, and decide which are actually worth adopting internally vs. hype.

• Document what you build well enough that someone else can run it without you in the room.

• Flag data quality issues and inconsistent definitions before they turn into bad decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a data analyst, analytics engineer, or BI role, with real SQL and Python fluency.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to build something real - a script, an agent, an automation - not just to summarize text.

• A builder's instinct: when a manual process repeats twice, the next step is automating it, not doing it a third time.

• Able to go from a vague stakeholder ask to a specific, well-scoped answer without heavy hand-holding.

• Clear written communication - can explain a finding or a tool to someone non-technical in a few sentences.

• Experience at a startup where the data stack and tooling were still being built, not inherited mature.

• Exposure to building or prompting AI agents/workflows (not just using chat interfaces).

• Familiarity with modern BI/data tools (dbt, Looker, Hex, or similar).