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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Hybrid
About the Company
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Meet the Team
TORC is looking for a Senior Business Operations Analyst, join the Technology Operations team to expand its BI data analytics and financial reporting capabilities. This person will partner with all other business functions to bring visibility and reporting to help our Technology organization stay informed and make better decisions. You will leverage your interest in finance, technical skills, and passion for data analytics and automation to enhance storytelling about production ramp and cost reductions for leadership.
What You’ll Do
The Senior Business Operations Analyst, must be able to translate business value goals into user-centered dashboards and visualizations and underlying data models that support decision-making while using best practices for user interaction and interface design. They must be comfortable starting with ill-defined datasets and problems and helping stakeholders to unpack what will be most helpful and achievable given the data available. They use statistical methods to test hypotheses and provide predictive modeling to uncover insights and assess data reliability for strategic planning and reporting. They work with data sets of various kinds and sizes in databases, spreadsheets, and data lakes, and must have strong SQL skills and be able to work in one or multiple BI frameworks depending on need (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.). They must be comfortable working in an agile environment, have experience working with UIs that make data accessible and consumable, enjoy the challenge of highly complex technical contexts, and above all, is passionate about data and analytics.
Position Responsibilities:
Develop and implement novel solutions to monitor and improve business performance and efficiency starting from gathering requirements from stakeholders to partnering with data producing teams and other analysts to build and operationalize functional systems.
Define, instrument, and maintain new and existing business KPIs from scratch, leveraging SQL queries and Python scripting.
Build automation to ensure we can understand and act on business performance with accurate, scalable, and low latency solutions that require minimal maintenance.
Create actionable, user-friendly, and intuitive dashboards using Tableau or other tools - to surface business performance and support scalable data-driven decision making.
Ensure transparency of data quality by clearly documenting data sources and data validation processes and regularly auditing the results.
Work with IT staff to design and implement secure and sustainable paths for data access from systems to support timely dashboards.
Use out-of-the-box thinking to develop and implement solutions to unique challenges.
Create documentation and provide training to inform stakeholders and cultivate data literacy within the organization.
Answer complex business questions via ad-hoc SQL queries or Python notebooks to enable business owners to make critical decisions.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Bachelor’s degree in Data Analysis, Statistics, Information Technology, or Computer Science.
5+ years of experience in business analytics.
5+ years of experience working with databases.
5+ years of experience working with large scale data systems and analytics.
5+ years of experience with database design, data modeling, or object modeling.
5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence/data analytics tools (Microsoft Power BI, Dashboards, SQL, Tableau, etc.).
Analytical thinking with a data-driven approach to problem solving and the ability to extract value from data and connect insights to business outcomes.
Ability to work under pressure and multi-task in a fast-paced/rapidly changing environment, comfortable with ambiguity.
Outstanding attention to detail, strong analytical and communication skills, comfortable working independently, strong listener, innovator, and the capacity to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
A team player with a professional “get it done” attitude.
Proven history of living the values important to Torc: Integrity, Accountability, Respect, Innovation, Success
Data-driven and highly analytical - you're able to translate data and insights into a meaningful story to drive strategy, action, and decision-making at an executive level.
Self-starter - you boldly pursue your work and love the responsibility of being personally empowered, constantly prioritizing your work amongst several projects.
Curious - you're innovative, creative, and constantly looking for opportunities to tweak and optimize.
Team Player - you love going heads down in SQL or Pandas, but also partnering with your teammates and stakeholders.
Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r
Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:
At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Torc's total compensation package will also include our corporate bonus and stock option plan. Dependent on the position offered, sign-on payments, relocation, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Job ID: 102707