Associate, Research & Analytics
ApplyDX helps companies build world-class engineering organizations by providing leaders with insights into developer experience and productivity. DX is bootstrapped, profitable, and consistently growing revenue more than 3x year over year. We’re headquartered in Salt Lake City with customers like Indeed, Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Pfizer, and Vanguard.
About the role
In this role, you’ll be part of DX’s new Research & Analytics team, sitting within Marketing.
Because DX is an analytics platform, we have a rich dataset at our fingertips. In this role, you’ll be responsible for delivering data-driven analyses to inform software engineering leaders and platform teams across various aspects of developer productivity and best-in-class engineering performance. For example, you may produce reports covering benchmarking data from DX’s platform or dive into specific insights or trends customers are seeing. You’ll always be focused on addressing the questions of our target audiences, which include VP/C-level engineering leaders as well as Platform/Developer Productivity teams.
The right person for this role is deeply curious, loves working with data, and knows how to tell a clear, compelling story. You’ll need to ramp up quickly on our audience and the kinds of questions they’re asking, then turn raw data into insights that speak directly to those needs.
Since we’re a small, fast-moving team, you’ll own projects end to end—from digging into the data to shaping the narrative and producing reports with visuals. This is also a strong growth opportunity. You’ll play a key role in shaping how we use data to drive industry conversations, and help define the future of the team as we grow.
Key responsibilities
- Analyze and interpret product and customer data to uncover insights on engineering productivity, trends, and benchmarks across companies and industries.
- Produce clear, compelling reports and narratives (e.g. benchmarking studies, correlation analyses) that influence how engineering leaders think about performance and improvement strategies.
- Own research projects end-to-end—from question framing and data exploration to visualizing results and shaping the final story for publication.
- Work with internal and external thought leaders to provide additional commentary or feedback for your reports.
- Think strategically about how your insights are shared and applied. We’re a lean team, so it’s not just about producing great content, it’s about making sure the right people see it. That means collaborating to identify the most impactful channels for distribution, working with other teams to weave findings into outreach, and repackaging insights for reports, workshops, or talks.
What we value at DX
Companies have all kinds of culture slides. At DX, we want to be very clear about what we care about and how we judge performance. For us, it all boils down to individual mastery, becoming the best at your craft. Those who exhibit this quality will thrive here and be unduly rewarded. We can’t control outcomes due to competitors, the economy, decision-makers, etc., but what we can control is doing our jobs at the highest level possible.
Characteristics of someone who thrives at DX:
- You quietly outwork your peers, you are meticulous and obsessive about details and process
- You perform at a high level consistently, not in spurts
- Ability to quickly learn and communicate about technical topics and products
- Ability to take ownership, work under pressure, and meet deadlines on time
- Excellent presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship-building skills, across all levels of management
Bonus points if you…
- Have past experience working with a technical audience (Platform Engineering, VP Engineering, CTO, CIO)
- Have past startup experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary and generous bonus structure
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
- 401k with 4% match
- Unlimited PTO
- Fully covered medical insurance