Data Analyst

About Us:

Forage is a mission-driven payments company that is helping merchants accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries.

Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering merchants of all shapes and sizes to serve these shoppers online.

We function as a hybrid organization, actively hiring across North America. While we embrace remote work, we prioritize candidates who can contribute from our San Francisco office.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for our first data hire, someone who can think strategically, but also can grow into a hands-on executor. We want someone who will shape the data architecture at Forage and is able to arm all departments with data-driven decision making capabilities. 

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Support the design and implementation of the  company’s data pipeline and ETL processes, ensuring data flows efficiently and reliably from source systems to final storage.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to empower them to make data-driven decisions.
• Evaluate and recommend data infrastructure and analytics tools to support ongoing analysis and reporting needs.
• Develop, test, and optimize SQL and other queries to generate reports and dashboards that drive actionable insights.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience in Business Intelligence Engineering, Data Engineering or Data Analysis, and analyzing large datasets to solve problems
• Experience running large independent data projects
• Strong experience with SQL
• Hands-on experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau)
• Understanding of data pipeline design 
• Ability to work cross-functionally with operations, project management and engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Python
• Familiarity with AWS cloud data infrastructure tooling
• Building Data Pipelines
• Prior experience at a growth stage software company
• Fintech background 

Our Offer:

• As of 11/12/2024, if we hire you in San Francisco, your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
  • Base Compensation:$120k- $155k USD 
  • Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
  • Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.
  • A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.
  • A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
  • A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.