Business Intelligence Analyst

Transit is a company focused on improving transit services through data insights. They are seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst to craft dashboards, conduct analyses, and ensure data quality to enhance rider satisfaction and operational efficiency for transit agencies.

Responsibilities

• Craft compelling dashboards, maps, and custom reports to help transit agency staff grow their ridership and boost rider satisfaction
• Provide deep-dive analyses to our partners, and equip them with the requisite fins and snorkels to extract their desired data from our dashboards
• Conduct hypothesis testing, predictive modeling, and monitor product performance to help our designers bring our products closer to their perfect(ish) final form
• Be Transit’s in-house guardian of ridership data and help internal parties make sense of it all
• Data discrepancies? Never heard of them... okay maybe you have heard of them but you also know how to fix them to uphold your fastidious data quality standards!
• Apply statistical and analytical techniques, and perform exploratory data analysis to uncover trends, patterns, and anomalies from complex datasets

Skills

• You have a degree or hard-won experience in a quantitative field: stats, applied math, ML, or econ
• You are a dyed-in-the-wool (dyed-in-the-bus-upholstery?) transit nerd
• You have strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to transition between data and business problems
• When hunting down data you can find the sweet spot between speed and accuracy based on the business context
• You drop analysis-ready data sets and dashboards with the panache of a Beyoncé album launch
• You are detail-oriented to a fault, double check your sources, and verify final outputs to uphold our team's trust in the data
• You can translate data speak to human speak, and vice versa
• You can calculate the required sample size for statistical significance for a survey
• You can develop scripts and workflows to automate data collection and processing tasks
• You find Python charming
• You've got some machine learning chops
• You're comfortable integrating AI tools into your workflow
• You live in (or want to live in!) Montreal

Benefits

• Stock options
• RRSP/FHSA contributions
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 5 weeks vacation
• Four-day work week at full-time salary (yes, you read that right)
• Apple laptop and equipment
• $1,600 annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.
• A training and development budget
• Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!
• Flexible work hours
• Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal and/or [insert exotic Zoom background]
• When you’re in the office: you’ll be in urbanist heaven, surrounded by Mile End’s urban gardens, bike paths, BIXI docks, bus stops, a metro station, and limitless restaurants… cafés… bars… concert halls… bagel boutiques…
• Communal lunch-and-learn with free food in the office each week

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