Business Analyst

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview:

GitHub is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join the Business Insights team that is focused on delivering data-driven points of view and insights to elevate GitHub’s decision-making, alignment and expansion. This role will contextualize and synthesize data from across the company – internal business, customer, and market and competitor data. You’ll be expected to build meaningful insights from our data and market analysis that enable leaders and inform strategies and investments.

The Business Insights team sits within the Operations Organization driving evidence-based recommendations and frameworks to inform company-wide strategies that support GitHub now and help drive the GitHub of the future. This position requires an experienced business analyst who is comfortable with conducting market-based research, identifying new spaces for GitHub, synthesizing data and findings into insights, and communicating and advocating insights to business leaders. 

GitHub has changed the way software is built, and we have a unique opportunity to look further ahead to identify how software development can be faster, safer, easier, and more accessible. We look forward to hearing how you can help!

 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct market based competitive research by identifying, gathering, and interpreting information 

• Synthesizes findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions

• Create frameworks and methodologies to drive problem solving and insights

• Deliver findings, recommendations, and insights to business leaders through written documents and presentations

• Analyze data, track patterns, and identify trends that impact business performance.

• Maintain a sharp landscape radar for competitive intelligence and market strategies.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Several years experience in strategy, management consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND Several years experience in strategy, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience

  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND Several  years experience in strategy, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience

  • OR Doctorate in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, or related field AND Previous experience in strategy, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Previous experience in the software industry (e.g., SaaS-based products).

• Previous experience with pricing and packaging for software-based products 

 Preferred Qualifications

• Several years experience in the software industry (e.g., SaaS-based products).

• Several years experience with pricing and packaging for software consumptive-based

• products.

• Experience with some different transaction structures including investments, commercial agreements, acquisitions, and divestitures.

• GitHub Knowledge

 

GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
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