BI Analyst

 Zendesk's Enterprise Business Intelligence & Reporting team is seeking a proactive, motivated, creative, and experienced BI professional to support a portfolio of enterprise dashboards using modern BI approaches, frameworks, and governance principles to enable scalable self-service capabilities and standards with Tableau, Looker, and Snowflake. This role requires a broad mix of business and technical savvy, collaboration, influencing decisions, and effective communication skills with key internal partners at all levels. This is your chance to build enterprise BI capabilities with a modern data stack (SaaS ecosystem) during Zendesk's evolution.

**What you'll be doingÂ**:

- Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations.Â
- Develop and improve user learning materials, FAQs, checklists that fosters self-service and self-sufficiency
- Conduct moderate to complex data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
- Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, or datasets that has a substantial impact on the functional area of support
- Performing moderate to complex statistical analysis to investigate issues and present recommendations to stakeholders that build trust with the dashboards
- Collaborate with data engineers and business users to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
- Develop and build upon existing expertise of the data ecosystem (data lake) as well as emerging trends in business intelligence technologies (e.g. AI, Conversational BI, Generative BI)
- Develop and maintain BI platform operations and administration procedures, checklists, and runbooks for a global support team

**Job Specifications**:

- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. Ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results
- Demonstrated problem solving skills with practical and creative solutions. Strong communications skills with the ability to influence various levels of leaders using data and logic
- Aptitude and drive to learn new technologies, frameworks, and analysis techniques (e.g. AI, Semantics, conversational BI, Generative BI)
- Is comfortable taking ownership for the design & implementation of technical solutions
- Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds, locations, and functional areas.
- Advance the standardization of BI dashboards and metrics for consistency and scalability
- Clearly document BI procedures, runbooks, checklists, onboarding, and tools (e.g. Jira, Lucid, Confluence)
- Support Self-service BI training campaigns, enablement guides, FAQs, and delivery
- Support the Business Glossary, Data Dictionary, Metadata Catalog, and BI (Reports) Catalog
- Manage BI Support forums (Slack, Mailbox, Zendesk tickets) with consistency and scalability

**What you bring to the role (Required Qualifications)**:

- Bachelors Degree in Information Systems preferred, and/or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience with demonstrated success at a BI Analyst II, BI Senior Analyst level or comparable data analytics related field, in an organization with large-scale Business Intelligence and Reporting operations
- Excellent knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/Python) and tools (Looker, Looker Studio, Tableau)
- In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
- Adept in extracting and leveraging data out of data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
- Demonstrable experience leading large multi-functional BI projects
- Player/coach, hands-on, collaborative and strong interest in building new capabilities and BI team from the ground up
- Proven track record navigating, collaborating, and influencing business stakeholders to deliver BI solutionsÂ
- Good knowledge and experience in BI, Reporting, visualization principles, practices, and standards
- Ability to travel less than 5% of the time (e.g. US or EU offices)
***Where We Work**
**Zendesk is not your average tech company. We have all the stuff you'd expect - competitive pay, benefits, appealing offices, snacks, and more. We also have a culture deeply dedicated to enabling conversations and providing appreciative support. We help our staff keep work-life balance, from flexible hours to remote work, to the most dynamic parental leave plans on the market. Our Social Impact team is actively engaged in our community and enables us to invest thousands of hours with local community groups each year. We invest in diversity and inclusion so that our team reflects the diversity of the world around us. We have a whole crew dedicated to ensuring our workplace experience is top notch and welcoming for all.**

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