Analyst, Schooling Data & Insights

About Success Academy

Success Academy is the highest-performing charter network in New York — 59 schools, 22,000+ scholars, and eight straight years of 100% college acceptance. We’re growing to 100 schools and 50,000 scholars. Figuring out how to see our own academic performance clearly — and act on it fast — is one of the most important problems we have.

The Role:

• Use AI to do everything. You build, analyze, prototype, and clean data with the full AI toolkit (Cursor and beyond). AI isn’t a side tool here — it’s how one person does the work of a whole team, and how we move at the speed leadership needs.

• Build the visualizations the network runs on. Interactive reports and dashboards that take a pile of scholar data and tell a clear story — exam results, school and teacher performance, readiness over time. The bar isn’t that a chart exists; it’s that someone looks at it and feels where the problem is.

• Design the methodology underneath. Take an ambiguous question — how do we fairly rank schools that give different mixes of exams? — and build a fair, defensible way to answer it. This is the reasoning core of the job.

• Get real data into shape. Pull the exports, point AI at the grunt work of cleaning and deduping, then QA every number against the source before it goes anywhere.

• Distill for executives. Turn the analysis into plain-English takeaways and a recommendation. If a smart 8th grader couldn’t follow it, it’s not done.

• Partner across the org. Work with the data and learning teams to get what you need, and present to senior leaders.

What we’re looking for:

We care about how you think, not where you’ve been. Specifically:

• Reasoning, first and foremost. You can take a vague, tangled question and turn it into a clean, structured analysis. This is the one thing we can’t teach.

• AI-native. You reach for AI tools by default and learn new ones fast.

• Clear communicator. You can explain a complex result simply, in writing and out loud, and hold your own in a room with leaders.

• Design instinct. A feel for simplicity and clarity — you know the difference between a busy chart and one that lands.

• High agency, low ego. You take a problem from question to answer end-to-end, and no task is beneath you.

• Quantitatively fluent. Comfortable in data; can teach yourself the tools and domain you don’t already know.

We’re deliberately open on years of experience and background — we’d rather have a sharp, fast-learning reasoner than a longer résumé. Non-traditional paths welcome.