Who We Are
Summer is a Certified B Corp® committed to maximizing savings for the 46 million Americans struggling with student debt. Leveraging policy expertise with innovative technology, Summer helps borrowers track their loans across various lenders and enrolls them in the most beneficial loan assistance programs, saving borrowers an average of $30,000. You can watch our product demo and hear from borrowers about how Summer has helped them on their journey to becoming debt free.
Up to date, Summer has raised $20 million from world-class investors, including QED Investors, General Catalyst, Greycroft, Foundation Capital, Story Ventures, NextView, Flourish Ventures, and the Financial Health Network. We have partnered with dozens of clients who fund Summer to support their employees and customers, such as the government of Alexandria, Virginia, the American Federation of Teachers, the American Diabetes Association, Asurion, Mattress Firm, Credit Karma, and others.
Your Role
Summer is hiring a Data Analyst to generate insights across the entire company. Data is at the heart of our loan algorithms and our business decisions. This role involves cross-team collaboration to transform data into actionable strategies. In this role, your activities will include:
- Designing and building frameworks and tools to facilitate data-driven decisions
- Segmenting student loan borrowers to understand motivations and use cases
- Supporting calculations for loan repayment scenario modeling
- Identifying patterns in user behavior that point to product opportunities
- Collaborating with the marketing team to optimize our acquisition funnel
- Collaborating with the engineering team to maintain consistent data collection across web, app, and API sources
- Promoting a culture of experimentation that tests, measures, and improves quickly
- Building dashboards that democratize data and empower colleagues to monitor key metrics
- Having a direct and significant effect on a data-driven organization breaking down barriers to higher education.
Recommended Experience
We're looking for someone who has:
- A degree in a quantitive field and 3+ years of experience in data analytics
- Understanding of A/B testing methodologies
- Experience with statistical analysis and data visualization
- Strong SQL skills and knowledge of relational databases
- Experience in Python or other scripting languages
- Proficiency with business intelligence tools
- Startup and/or finance experience as a plus
Finally, we're excited to work with teammates equally passionate about using their talents to address a major social issue.
Values + Benefits
We're proud to be a mission-driven company with an inclusive culture. Our greatest asset is the set of values our team embodies every day: empathy, diversity, growth, determination, humility, and fun.
We offer competitive salaries, substantial equity allocations, healthcare coverage, 401(k) with an employer match, contributions towards student loan repayments, and flexible vacation/PTO. Summer supports a hybrid, flexible work environment and we are open to applicants from all over the United States.
Sound interesting? We look forward to hearing from you. Join us to help fix the system!
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Summer provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.