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
Company Overview
- Transit is a mobile app intended to help its users navigate their cities. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, CAN, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://transitapp.com.