United States onlyRippleworks Foundation believes all people should have equitable access to the resources and opportunities to live life to the fullest. Our mission is to provide the practical support entrepreneurs and their teams need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs have directly supported 260 ventures by running 400 custom advisory projects across 60 countries, running workshops for over 1,600+ leaders and deploying more than over $270 million in unrestricted funding to help these ventures grow.
We are a mission-driven team dedicated to helping impactful ventures thrive. Our goal is to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world—learning, growing, and having fun together along the way.
Rippleworks has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture)
We support our portfolio of Ventures in 4 ways:
Projects: Short-term, high-impact projects where social ventures work with leading executives to tackle top operational priorities
Expert Office Hours: Specialized, contextually relevant advice for ventures from Rippleworks Experts
Leaders Studio: Expert-led learning programs where leaders gain critical skills ventures need to deliver impact at scale.
Capital: Provides hard-to-find capital required for scale (grants and loans)
We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Rippleworks. Rippleworks is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or
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Hiring Key Dates:
- Applications Open: February 2, 2026
- Applications Closed: February 18, 2026
- Interviews occurring: February 23, 2026 to March 12, 2026
The Manager, Data Analytics & Insights will sit within the Learning & Impact (L&I) team and play a critical enabling role across Rippleworks. This role exists to strengthen organizational learning, improve data quality and governance, and translate complex, cross-organizational data into actionable insights that inform strategy, program design, and decision-making.
This role is both hands-on and cross-functional, requiring deep analytical execution as well as building organizational data fluency and capability.
Requirements
Core Data & Analytics
- Own and continuously improve data governance, data audits, and data quality assurance across Rippleworks systems
- Identify and design solutions for organizational data needs
- Develop dashboards, analyses, and insights for leadership and functional teams on Salesforce, google suite, etc. to support cross-functional decision-making.
- Lead data migration efforts and maintain data integrity across Salesforce and integrated tools
- Support different teams with data collection, analysis, and qualitative synthesis (e.g., interviews, focus groups) as needed
- Respond to emerging analytical needs across the organization
Project Management and Collaboration
- Lead coordination and implementation of Rippleworks’ impact framework across teams
- Review analytical outputs for rigor, consistency, and quality
- Lead internal and external research projects; own the creation and dissemination of outputs
Organizational Capacity Building
- Build data literacy and analytical capability by coaching and training teammates on data use and interpretation
About You
You are a rigorous and curious analytics professional who enjoys working in ambiguity and translating messy data into clarity. You are comfortable operating in the weeds while also elevating insights for senior leaders. You value collaboration, learning, and impact.
Competencies for this role:
- Strategic Mindset: The ability to see ahead to future possibilities and translate them into a clear, compelling direction for the organization. It involves anticipating trends, connecting internal and external insights, and positioning the organization for long-term success.
- Data Collection & Analysis: Strong data analysis and synthesis skills across quantitative and qualitative data. Experience with data governance, data quality, and systems implementation.
- Effective communication: Developing and delivering appropriate communications, conveying a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences
- Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keeps the organization moving forward.
- Manages Complexity: Facilitates a systematic approach to help a team/organization deal with change by understanding the people side of change when achieving a desired business outcome and adopting strategies and processes to successfully incorporate new processes while minimizing negative outcomes
Core competencies for all Rippleworks employees
- Ventures First: Deeply understands venture needs in order to design and deliver exceptional value to our venture partners through the experts who support them.
- Learn Forward: Continuously and actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as growth opportunities.
- Connect with Care: Engages our global community with curiosity and kindness across roles and levels, backgrounds, and geographies to cultivate trust, inclusivity, belonging, and collaborative success rooted in both empathy and fairness.
- Progress over Perfection: Navigates dynamic, changing situations and makes decisions or creates a path forward even with imperfect or incomplete information
- Be an Owner: Reliably executes and takes initiative to deliver high-quality work and impact with care and tenacity. Evolves solutions that best serve ventures, Rippleworks, and the broader team.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of experience in data analytics ensuring strong data governance and integrity, translating organizational data needs into solutions, and delivering high-quality dashboards and analyses
- Experience in Salesforce data architecture and analytics, including data governance, migrations, integrations, and the development of reliable reports and dashboards to support organizational decision-making
- Strong analytics tooling experience (e.g., Stata, Atlas DI, Tableau, Power BI)
- Experience working cross-functionally in a mission-driven or complex organization
- Experience working in/for the African context is highly desirable
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Earn a salary of $165,000 with robust benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k) + employer match, holidays, flexible PTO, wellness, and remote-work stipends. While Rippleworks has one global salary structure, the salary listed here reflects employees on US payroll. To keep total rewards equitable across countries, salaries may be adjusted if hiring in a country where employer-paid compulsory benefits are significantly more robust and costly than in the US.
- Global Engagement: Travel opportunities to connect with the social impact ecosystem and experience Rippleworks' impact firsthand. Extend work trips through our Study Abroad Program for regional exploration.
- Giving Back: Participate in our Community Grants program, awarding $50K to a nonprofit of your choice, plus a $2,500 charitable donation match for financial or volunteer contributions.
- Growth-Oriented Culture: Access professional coaching, a generous learning budget, and regular team learning events to support personal and professional development.
- Flexible Remote-First Environment: Enjoy flexible work hours, remote-first stipends, and meaningful virtual and in-person connections through Core Collaboration Weeks (2–3 times per year).
- Sabbatical Benefit: After five years, take four weeks off for rest, travel, or personal exploration to refresh and re energize.
