Data Analyst Resume Example
An entry-level data analyst two years into a first job at a meal-kit subscription company, with SQL, dbt and Tableau and a summer analytics internship behind it.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Data analyst, two years at a 40,000-subscriber meal-kit company. Writes SQL in Snowflake and dbt and builds the Tableau views the growth team runs standup from.”
Names the business, the warehouse and who uses the work in two sentences. Those are the first three things an analytics manager wants to know.
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“Found one skipped-week email drove 31% of week-two cancels. The rewrite lifted 8-week retention from 54% to 58%”
Question, finding, decision and the metric before and after, all in one line. That chain is what separates analysis from reporting.
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“Built the weekly retention dashboard in Tableau (LOD calcs) that 14 growth and CX staff open every Monday”
Says who opens it and how often. Adoption answers the dashboards-nobody-uses doubt before the reader raises it.
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“Ruled out price as the cause of a 6-point Midwest churn gap, which pointed the team to late deliveries instead”
A negative result written as a decision. Ruling something out with data is real work and shows judgment.
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“Built a cohort LTV model in Python (pandas) that finance now uses to cap the first-box discount at $40”
Ends on the decision the model drives. Naming the team that uses it turns a technical task into business impact.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Rowan Okafor Data Analyst | SQL, dbt, Tableau | Subscription Retail Columbus, OH | rowan.okafor@example.com SUMMARY Data analyst, two years at a 40,000-subscriber meal-kit company. Writes SQL in Snowflake and dbt and builds the Tableau views the growth team runs standup from. EXPERIENCE Data Analyst, Harvest Crate | Jun 2024 - Present - Found one skipped-week email drove 31% of week-two cancels. The rewrite lifted 8-week retention from 54% to 58% - Built the weekly retention dashboard in Tableau (LOD calcs) that 14 growth and CX staff open every Monday - Ruled out price as the cause of a 6-point Midwest churn gap, which pointed the team to late deliveries instead - Modeled 22 dbt tables from 6 sources (Stripe, Shopify, Braze), cutting the daily refresh from 3 hours to 25 min - Built a cohort LTV model in Python (pandas) that finance now uses to cap the first-box discount at $40 Analytics Intern, Scioto Valley Credit Union | May 2023 - Aug 2023 - Wrote SQL (CTEs, window functions) to flag 1,900 dormant accounts, and 240 reactivated after a mail campaign - Replaced a 40-tab Excel branch report with one Power BI page, saving the ops manager about 6 hours a month EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS B.S. Data Analytics, The Ohio State University, 2024 Tableau Desktop Specialist, 2025 SKILLS SQL (CTEs, window functions), Snowflake, dbt, Tableau (LOD calcs), Python (pandas), Power BI, A/B test analysis
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