Business Intelligence Lead

Cedar

7d•Remote

About The Position

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S. Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience. The Role The Business Intelligence Lead is a foundational role responsible for building and evolving the measurement systems that enable Cedar’s strategic execution and operational excellence. Reporting to the VP of Business Operations, this leader translates business objectives into clear, actionable metrics and delivers insights that give leaders confidence in how the business is performing. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and data. You will define how performance is measured across the company, ensure metrics are consistently and correctly implemented, and create dashboards and analyses that provide real-time visibility into progress against goals. Success in this role requires both analytical rigor and strong collaboration - you’ll align cross-functional leaders on what matters most and ensure data is trusted, understood, and actionable.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or analytics engineering roles with demonstrated impact on business decision-making
Strong SQL proficiency, with comfort querying complex datasets and collaborating closely with data engineering teams
Hands-on experience with dbt, building dashboards and visualizations in modern BI tools such as Looker, Hex, Tableau, or similar platforms
Proven ability to translate ambiguous business questions into clear, actionable metrics
Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning executives and functional leaders on definitions and priorities
Experience partnering with technical teams to implement and maintain reliable, scalable measurement systems
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain analytical concepts to non-technical audiences and present insights clearly to senior leaders
Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with a bias toward iteration and continuous improvement
Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and thoughtful in approach to problem solving

Nice To Haves

Experience in high-growth B2B SaaS, healthcare technology, or enterprise software environments
Background supporting business operations, operational excellence, or go-to-market teams

Responsibilities

Define and own core operational and strategic metrics across areas such as revenue performance, product adoption, engineering velocity, delivery operations, and functional efficiency
Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives into measurable outcomes that support execution and decision-making
Collaborate with data engineering, analytics engineering & product operations teams to ensure metrics are correctly instrumented, validated, and refreshed at the appropriate cadence
Build and maintain dashboards that serve as a trusted source of truth for company performance, enabling self-service insights for executives and functional leaders
Analyze performance trends and surface insights that help leaders understand progress, tradeoffs, and opportunities
Develop analytical models and trajectory forecasts that provide early visibility into whether goals are on track
Conduct operational health assessments to evaluate execution consistency and identify areas for optimization
Continuously refine the measurement framework based on learnings about which signals most effectively predict outcomes
Document metric definitions, data lineage, and methodologies so stakeholders clearly understand what is being measured and how to interpret results
Support strategic planning through scenario modeling and historical performance analysis
Partner with data teams to uphold data governance standards and maintain measurement consistency as Cedar scales

Benefits

A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

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