Strategic Data Analytics Lead - AI & Exec Dashboards

EdCast; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EdCast seeks a Sr. Principal Data Analyst to lead analytics strategy for Cornerstone University, translating complex learning data into actionable insights for executives.

You will own executive reporting, KPI design, data stewardship, and predictive analytics to improve operational effectiveness and understand customer, partner, and employee enablement outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, define governance for data quality, and apply AI-enabled methods to automate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, business analytics, or related field.
• Advanced SQL, business intelligence and data visualization skills; strong Excel capabilities.
• Experience developing executive dashboards, defining KPIs, and translating complex analysis into recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong data quality, analytical modeling, stakeholder partnership, and communication skills.
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated analysis, assumptions, and data-handling risks.
• Experience with Tableau, Snowflake, and enterprise data ecosystems.
• Predictive analytics, forecasting, statistical methods, or data governance experience.
• Experience measuring learning, enablement, customer adoption, or operational performance.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted analytics or reporting automation.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and maintenance of executive dashboards, scorecards, and recurring business performance reporting.
• Define and maintain leading and lagging performance indicators with business leaders, including consistent definitions, baselines, and measurement methods.
• Develop advanced analyses, forecasts, and predictive models to surface trends, risks, opportunities, and potential business impact.
• Build and improve Tableau dashboards and reporting solutions using Snowflake and other approved enterprise data sources.
• Steward Cornerstone University data definitions, quality controls, lineage, documentation, and reporting consistency.
• Partner with program, product, customer-facing, and enablement stakeholders to connect learning activity with readiness, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Present clear findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations to executives; conduct focused ad hoc analyses to support decisions.
• Identify, test, and implement AI-enabled automation for recurring data preparation, quality checks, and reporting; measure impact and retire unnecessary manual processes.
• Apply AI-assisted analytical methods with validation of source data, model assumptions, accuracy, privacy, and human review.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Advanced SQL

BI & data visualization

Executive dashboards

Data quality

Analytics storytelling

Tableau

Snowflake

Predictive analytics

AI in analytics

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

EdCast seeks a Sr. Principal Data Analyst to lead analytics strategy for Cornerstone University, translating complex learning data into actionable insights for executives.

You will own executive reporting, KPI design, data stewardship, and predictive analytics to improve operational effectiveness and understand customer, partner, and employee enablement outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, define governance for data quality, and apply AI-enabled methods to automate