Analytics/Business Intelligence Lead (f/m/d)

We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution to offer a broad range of investment products in their apps. Our view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow) and Bessemer Venture Partners in the USA.

We’re based in Berlin but would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.

At Upvest, our vision is to make investing as easy as spending money. By enabling any business to offer investment opportunities, our goal is to empower anyone to invest. Today, we count 100+ talented people from 30 different countries.

As Upvest enters the next stage of growth, we are looking for an Analytics/Business Intelligence (BI) Lead. The successful candidate will work directly with our CFO Julian Lange building out a relatively new function together with our data engineers:

What you will work on:

• Upvest is going live with our first (large) customers, so now is the time to define and track closely our key performance indicators (KPIs), especially when it comes to our product and commercial activities.
• Partner with all other departments across the company to support decision making by turning data into insights, e.g. which customers to focus on, what features to launch next, etc.
• Foster a data-driven culture through training, mentoring, and building a data community and resource at Upvest
• Turn our up-and-running BigQuery/Looker technical setup into a world-class data competency together with our team of experienced data engineers
• Help to hire and onboard junior data analysts and data scientists

What you can expect from this role:

• Build it the right way from the start: We have functioning tooling but the number of KPIs we’re tracking, dashboards and their usage are still fairly limited. So you will decide how we define, govern, visualise and use our data and metrics.
• Tons of ways to leave your mark and make impact: We’re barely over two years into our journey, so lots of things in Analytics and across the company can still be created from scratch and developed.
• An experienced team and culture driven organisation at Upvest: Despite the early stage of the company, we have assembled a world-class team with lots of experience across all key domains that we require for our success, from banking and risk to regulatory, legal and compliance to product and engineering. The company is also full of people who have successfully scaled businesses before, who understand the importance and live and breathe the Upvest culture and have a “people first” mentality.
• Partner with top-notch data engineering colleagues: We already built a strong data engineering function at Upvest, which means you can focus your energy on your core responsibilities and always have the support of other data experts at your fingertips.
• Continuous learning: Your high quality colleagues, large area of responsibilities and the room we leave people to thrive and develop provide for an incredibly rewarding learning experience. It is a great opportunity if you aspire to grow professionally and personally.

Role requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in core BI skills such as data analysis, data governance, and dashboarding; ideally in SQL and/or Python
• Excellent knowledge of data warehouse and visualisation tools, especially BigQuery and Looker
• You know how to build interpersonal relationships and can influence and lead cross-functional discussions and decisions for real business impact
• You are always looking to learn something new and are interested in the details
• You remain positive and solution focused and keep trying, even when facing challenges, something didn’t work the first time, or a mistake was made
• You have shown leadership skills in the past, ideally through formal management or also informal guidance of more junior colleagues

Why Upvest?

• We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.
• We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.
• We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).
• While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.
• We live a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.
• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over Egos.
• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over Process.
• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.