Senior Business Analyst - Operations Strategy

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We are searching for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Operations Strategy team, who would be based in San Francisco. In this role, you will deliver targeted recommendations to business stakeholders to improve our fleet and operational performance through analyses and data storytelling. You will build metrics, data models, dashboards, and reports to ultimately help drive a more effective and efficient operations. This role requires strong analytical skills combined with business acumen.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of key metrics and dashboards that measure our fleet health and operational performance
• Analyze opportunities for efficiency gains by investigating performance trends and partnering with business stakeholders (namely Product and Operations) to complement data findings with anecdotes
• Craft presentations and communicate findings to cross functional stakeholders and leaders to influence actions on a regular basis
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to identify opportunity areas, guide business priorities, and enable data-driven decisions
• Collaborate with data scientists to build underlying data models and leverage new datasources
• Independently manage project deliverables by scoping metric requirements, creating metric definition and methodology documents, tracking against timelines, and coordinating work across multiple stakeholders

Required Qualifications: 

• BS in a quantitative field (e.g. Economics, Math, Statistics, Finance)
• 5+ years working experience working in business intelligence or strategic data science / analytics roles in a technology company, or an equivalent analytical role
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Experience presenting to senior management and using data insights to make recommendations and achieve goals
• Expertise in visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Mode) 
• Superior attention to detail and strong business acumen
• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Ownership mentality to drive issues and tasks to completion, with a strong bias for action

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge or experience working in the transportation industry 
• Familiarity with DBT or data modeling

The base salary range for this position is $112,000 - 168,000 per year.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.

We have offices in several locations across the United States, where we encourage team and cross-functional collaboration. Aurora offers competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and additional healthcare support including medical transportation reimbursement, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. We empower our employees and their families with options to further thei