Apollo Agriculture is the commercial farming platform for small-scale farmers that helps farmers maximize their profits. Apollo uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver financing, high-quality farm products, and optimized advice that can more than double farm profitability, starting in Kenya. Our team brings together technology and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for USD ~$1 Billion), ACRE, Google, and One Acre Fund. We value evangelical pursuit of mission with a pragmatic approach, humility in the face of challenge, active discussion of disagreements, and considerate listening.

Apollo is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join our growing team and help shape how farmers access farm inputs & products, credit, and customized advice at scale. As a part of the Business Intelligence team, you will be responsible for delivering timely, accurate, and relevant information to decision makers across the company. Our primary responsibility is to provide the data necessary to support marketing, operations, finance, credit, logistics, and communications teams in their achievements and goals, and to help decision makers steer the company towards making intelligent decisions. Your role is to be an analytical thought partner for key decision makers in our operations and commercial orgs, and you’ll have the opportunity to build a complete understanding of a fast-growing startup while developing your technical skills and business acumen.

Management: Reports to the BI and Data Warehouse Lead

Responsibilities:

• • Create, maintain, and audit dashboards for reliable use by teams across the whole business
  • Influence business operations as an expert on company operations; be an analytical thought partner for the leads of our commercial org
  • Leverage a deep understanding of our data to proactively suggest strategic technical, product, and business investments
  • Mentor a rapidly growing team of world-class data analysts
  • Translate business problems into technical solutions for data infrastructure & engineering development
  • Work with teams across the company to match their priorities and goals with the right key performance indicators
  • Contribute to setting the team’s priorities and strategic roadmap to balance the needs of the business and our users and the team’s level of technical debt

You:

• • Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Economics, Math, Computer Science, or another quantitative field
  • Have 3-5 years of commercial analytics experience
  • Are a bit of a stats nerd
  • Thrive as a mentor and leader
  • Write fluent SQL, the lingua franca of Apollo data analytics
  • Can tell a great story that’s backed up by the data
  • Great organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent written & oral communication skills
  • Want to solve the commercial and strategic needs of an evolving business (as opposed to solving mostly technical problems)
  • Have a keen sense of sound technical design and informative data visualization

We:

• • Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers
  • Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise
  • Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve
  • Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree
  • Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth
  • Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
  • Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package including equity
  • Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect
  • Are excited to hear from you!

Interested applicants should apply on this link.