Basta’s Vision: A world in which a college degree provides equitable access to a choice-filled life. Basta’s Mission is to create a bridge of opportunity between employers and first-generation college students of color to increase knowledge workforce diversity at all levels.
ABOUT Basta
Since 2016, Basta has worked with thousands of first-generation college students of color to launch their careers and change the face of leadership in the workforce, resulting in the country’s best job placement outcomes. Through personalized AI-powered career planning, best-in-class coaching, and networking with top 100 employers, New York-based job seekers in Basta’s Fellowship program find great jobs at nearly twice the rate of their peers. Our Powered By Basta program is scaling this impact through game-changing analytics and online support that supercharges colleges’ career success programs so students nationwide can accelerate their professional journey.
SCOPE AND PROBLEM
American undergrads are facing a job market beset by systemic underemployment. The problem is especially severe for the nearly 5 million first-generation college students: only 44% of first-gen students of color land a job that requires their degree, and only 20% earn a living wage within a year of graduation.
These trailblazers have the smarts, skills, and experience to land a job that leverages their degree, pays well, and forges a path to a thriving career. Basta partners with colleges, nonprofits, and employers to build that bridge of opportunity.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR OF DATA STRATEGY
As the Director of Data Strategy, you will shape the next phase of Basta’s data strategy while also getting hands-on with data architecture, modeling, and key analysis. This role will partner with and support service delivery and business teams to identify and address high impact operational and strategic goals through the development and maintenance of data and technology infrastructure, products, tools and processes that enable robust, data-driven approaches to delivering, evaluating, and communicating progress toward our mission. You’ll use your expertise in data architecture & engineering to streamline and/or upgrade Basta’s core database to ensure reliable data pipelines to power everything from day-to-day work to long-term goal setting and monitoring. You’ll manage a small but growing team to increase staff access to easy-to-understand analytics and visualizations and build our capacity to effectively tell stories with data. Your work will help ensure that every team member across the organization has the infrastructure & support they need to use data effectively, and you’ll hold us accountable to do so.
In this role you will:
ABOUT OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE
You could be our Director of Data Strategy if:
The Tangible Good
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package* which includes medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, retirement matching, paid parental leave, and more. We also offer a generous paid time off policy, including 15 paid vacation days (20 paid vacation days after your first year), all federal holidays, summer Friday half-days and an end of year shutdown annually.
*Basta reserves the right to change benefits at any time according to business need.
**Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Basta is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
**Basta does not currently cover the cost of relocation.
TO APPLY
Please submit your resume
Phone screening, work sample/simulation, exercise debrief, panel interviews, and final interview.
Our staff is integral to making Basta’s vision a reality—we’re creating a world where a college degree provides equitable access to a choice-filled life.
Our staff comes from all backgrounds of for-profit career paths, education, and ethnicities and we’re looking for passionate team players to help us scale.
Check out our website and our staff's LinkedIn pages. You'll see the many different faces on our team and the vast experiences they bring to our organization!