Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: On-Site Salary:

Position Overview

Aescape is seeking a Business Analyst to be the founding member of our data team. This role is crucial for working directly with stakeholders to run experiments and empower teams to make critical business decisions with data. While a working stack and tools are in place, you will be responsible for defining our analytics strategy, investigating new AI tools and capabilities, and ensuring our metrics accurately reflect business performance. This is an exceptional opportunity to develop our data practice and enhance your strategic analytics skills at the intersection of robotics, AI, and wellness.

This role is based on-site in NYC at our HQ.

About Aescape

Aescape is a New York-based lifestyle robotics company redefining self-care. Backed by $128MM in funding from investors like Valor Equity Partners (an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX), Aescape launched the world’s first-to-market AI-powered robotic massage experience with Equinox in August 2024 and quickly gained significant media attention. Publications like WIRED, Fast Company, Popular Science, Sports Business Journal, Fortune, Vogue, and Bloomberg have covered our technology, with notable figures like Will Smith posting about the experience. Aescape has since announced partnerships with global industry leaders across hospitality, pro sports, corporate wellness, and luxury real estate, with further expansion planned.

Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst at Aescape, you will:

• Serve as Aescape’s data expert, assisting teams across the company in deepening their understanding of metrics and analytics, and translating business questions into actionable data insights.
• Define, operate, and scale our data infrastructure, establishing golden tables and metrics, and ensuring pipeline health, collaborating with external vendors as needed.
• Partner with product and marketing teams to design, plan, and execute experiments, analyzing results to drive strategic decisions.
• Build automated reporting systems and self-service analytics components for common business queries, presenting findings to leadership when required.
• Own KPI definition and reporting, identifying trends and anomalies across the business.
• Lead customer satisfaction measurement initiatives in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Create our AI/analytics roadmap and continuously optimize our data stack for scalability.

Requirements

• Advanced SQL expertise and a proven ability to transform data, including messy or unstructured data, into reliable, scalable systems.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business requests into technical specifications, with the capacity to push back when appropriate.
• Demonstrated track record of building automated analytics solutions and reducing manual processes.
• Experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and statistical analysis.
• Strong communication skills to present complex data insights to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to quickly diagnose data issues and a drive for continuous improvement and automation.
• Comfort working and making decisions with incomplete information.

Nice To Have

• Python & Pandas experience for data analysis.
• Experience building a data warehouse & analytics stack from the ground up.
• Expertise in statistical analysis and predictive modeling.

What’s In It For You

• Join a trailblazing tech company poised to transform the massage industry.
• The opportunity to contribute to a product that promotes healthier and happier living.
• A team culture characterized by passion, ambition, empowerment, inclusion, curiosity, and fun.
• Commitment to your personal and professional growth.
• An environment that empowers individuals, strengthens teams, and rewards achievement.
• Early-stage equity in a company led by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits.
• Complimentary massages at our SF and NY HQ locations, as well as at partner locations.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
• 401k plan with a 4% company match.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Generous parental leave.

Application Instructions

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