Data Analyst - Ops analytics

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 90 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. With the recent integration of a coach network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.

Job Description

Why join us?

As part of the Operations Data Analytics team inside the Tech department, you will build, develop and maintain a data layer on top of the data warehouse to provide business analysts with actionable insights. 

At the interface of the technical and business teams, you will own the data framework to popularize the data inside the operational teams, and for the bus teams in particular. 

Joining us, you will use both a strong business sense as well as enhance your technical strengths. Your business sense will be critical for understanding your stakeholders’ true needs: we expect you to challenge what is asked and to prioritize your tasks depending on the company priorities. At the same time, you will take an active part in building data flows and data modeling, joining data sources of the domain within your responsibility. You will be using data analytics tools such as BigQuery (Google) and Tableau. 

Also, you will popularize technical concepts to less technical people during training sessions. Finally, you will develop your data analytics skills while taking part in our Analytics Guild sessions and events: “Share More, Learn More” is one of BlaBlaCar’s core values.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Build a data product as an interface between operational and core data warehouse teams. Connect data to compute the business KPIs to enable best in class decisions making, using GCP Bigquery

  • Guide and train business analysts and operation managers towards a better usage of the data

  • Analyse and deliver reports with Tableau software

  • Contribute to knowledge and best practices sharing within the Analytics Guild

  • Build positive and trustful relationship while working with stakeholders to identify business needs, challenges and opportunities

  • Provide punctual analysis with actionable insights to bus teams leading to strategic changes for the company (pricing, network, operations...)

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent: engineering school, business school, etc…

  • 2-5 years of work experience in data analysis

  • Strong proficiency in SQL

  • Solid statistics knowledge

  • Solid dashboarding experience: Tableau, Power BI, etc…

  • Basic programming experience

  • Fluent in English - French is not mandatory

  • Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation, and a relentless doer

  • Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others

Nice to have

  • Degree with a specialty in Economics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data...

  • Knowledge of basic terminal UNIX commands (most of the team is using Macbook Pro)

  • Experience in Python

  • Experience using a scheduler like Airflow

  • Experience using a Cloud Provider: AWS, GCP, Azure

  • Github public profile, Kaggle competitions, technical achievements

  • Personal achievements

  • Please share anything relevant in the application form!

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris HQ or open to full remote from France

  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork, and impact

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment

  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

  • Bi-Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other

  • Weekly Tech Demos

What is next? 

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 7 days. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for: an Analytical online test, HR video interview, Manager interview, Business case test, SQL test (might be adapted to your skills) all remotly.

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.