Senior Partner Insights Manager (EDU)

Join Handshake, the leading career platform for students and recent graduates. As a Senior Partner Insights Manager, you will play a crucial role in turning data into actionable insights that drive better decisions, strengthen partner relationships, and improve student outcomes. You will lead high-impact analytics projects, build and scale data products, deliver insights, collaborate cross-functionally, and communicate findings to various audiences. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, mental health support, 401k match, equity, and flexible time off.

• Lead high-impact analytics and reporting initiatives for EDU Partnerships, from identifying the business question and defining success measures through analysis, delivery, enablement, and iteration.
• Build and evolve internal and partner-facing data products, dashboards, reports, and narratives that help teams understand partner health, business performance, student engagement, risks, and opportunities.
• Deliver direct-to-partner insights, including business reviews, partner reporting, benchmarking, and other analyses that demonstrate Handshake’s impact and support partner decision-making.

• This is a strong fit for an analytical operator who is comfortable working directly with stakeholders, has sound judgment about data quality and methodology, and wants to create leverage beyond one-off reporting requests
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and project leadership skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority
• Experience using AI-assisted analytics or workflow tools while maintaining strong validation and analytical standards
• 5+ years of experience in analytics, business operations, revenue or customer success operations, product operations, data products, or a related field
• Competent SQL skills and experience using BI and analytics tools to build, interpret, troubleshoot, and improve reporting. Experience with tools such as Looker, Omni, Hex, BigQuery, or Matik is a plus
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and creating structure where processes or definitions are still evolving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn complex analysis into concise, compelling narratives and recommendations
• Experience building reusable dashboards, reporting frameworks, data products, or other solutions that help people make decisions at scale
• Demonstrated ability to take analytical work from discovery to delivery with limited day-to-day direction, including gathering requirements, defining methodology, managing stakeholders, and driving adoption
• A customer- and partner-centered mindset, with the ability to connect analysis to meaningful outcomes for institutions, students, and Handshake
• High attention to detail, balanced with the ability to prioritize and make progress in a fast-moving environment
• Strong analytical judgment: you understand what the data can and cannot tell us, can identify quality or methodology risks, and know when to investigate further
• Experience working in higher education, career education, SaaS, or a related partner-oriented environment
• Familiarity with Handshake products, EDU Partnerships, career services, student engagement, or higher education workflows
• Experience with partner-facing analytics, executive reporting, benchmarking, or business reviews