Stride
is hiring
Business Analyst
About Our Company
At Stride, Inc. we support learners of all ages with inspired teachers and personalized experiences.
Everything comes back to learners. And not just the 56.6 million K–12 students — the 331 million Americans. Learning never stops. It’s the best means of growth throughout your life. But learning simply cannot be one-size-fits-all.
At Stride, we’re leading enormous and necessary change in a sector that’s left far too many behind. And it’s required us to challenge long-accepted beliefs and practices. With insight and input from learners, parents, teachers, administrators, boards of education, and policymakers, we continue to provide more effective ways to learn — focusing on building the skills and confidence learners need to make their way forward in life.
Because the more learners grow, the more we all benefit.
And the future holds vast opportunity — where learners are empowered to choose a path that unlocks their full potential.
Help us champion a fairer system that creates a stronger workforce and a stronger society.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Our Business Analysts are the drivers behind our continued growth and success. With our commitment to innovation, it’s our business analysts who seek out, develop, and help implement strategic initiatives for improved efficiency and productivity. We’re currently searching for an experienced business analyst with experience with back-office systems to help guide our organization into the future. From researching progressive systems solutions to evaluating their impact, our ideal candidate is a detailed planner, expert communicator, and top-notch business analyst.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Drive identification of requirements across the systems and help create systems processes;
- Serve as a thought leader for technical business processes, helping design and/or develop forward-thinking systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency;
- Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development;
- Determine and develop user requirements for systems in design through production;
- Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., operations, sales, finance, security, compliance, HR, and revenue generating business units) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams;
- Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties;
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation;
- Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration, and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations;
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science or related fields
- Three (3) to Five (5) years of proven experience in an analytics and systems development capacity OR
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
Other Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated proficiency in eliciting, analyzing and documenting requirements
- Should be able to perform impact analysis and gap analysis
- Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
- Write functional Specifications, design testing strategies and define acceptance criteria
- Excellent communicator with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Manage stakeholders, users and conduct requirement workshop
- Mapping processes and use cases, analyze the business case
- Expertise in Agile methodologies
- Highly proficient technical writing capabilities
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
- Ability to clear required background check
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with logistics system
- Experience with NetSuite ERP system
- Experience as a software developer
- Proven capabilities in project and user-testing management
- Proven development of innovative and impactful systems solutions
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This is a home-based position.
What we offer
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $60,000 to $129,000. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
