Head of Product Analytics (E-Commerce Background)

About the Role

We are looking for driven individual to work in a data-driven product management team, helping impact the user experience on our product. In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive our user behaviour and steer the product vision. You will work cross-functionally with product, design and engineering, enabling them with data and narratives about the customer journey. You’ll also work closely with other data teams, such as data engineering and business technology, to ensure we are creating a strong data culture at that enables our cross-functional partners to be more data-informed.

What You’ll Do

• Manage, mentor and grow a high-performing team of analytics and data science individuals
• Set up an analytics roadmap, identify key questions that will unblock product development and liaise with technical stakeholders on data and experimentation infrastructure
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering and Design leadership to understand the role of Data and how we can drive impact throughout the product development process
• Coordinate with analytics leaders in growth, customer, marketplace, business and operations to run a well-managed, productive and motivated
• Be a strong advocate for the team, and represent their needs and challenges with cross-functional leadership
• Transform the culture internally by enabling cross-functional partners to do more with data
• Understand the business and proactively spot risks and opportunities

Qualifications Required:

• 8+ years of experience in analytics, data science or economics
• 3+ years of people management experience especially with a focus on senior analysts/data scientists
• A well-balanced combination of big-picture thinking, ability to thrive in ambiguity, exceptional problem solving skills and patience to teach others and uphold a high bar
• Current or prior technical depth in data extraction, statistical analysis, modeling and general familiarity with data languages and statistical tools (SQL, Python, R, Stata)
• Experience in marketplace-type businesses where you can evaluate tradeoffs between equally important stakeholders
• Experience working in experiment-driven product development
• Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with senior leadership
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctoral degree in one of the following areas; Statistics, Engineering, Analytics, Math, Computer Science, Operations Research

What else is offered?

• A unique chance to travel like a diplomat
• Ground floor opportunity: shape the strategic direction of the company

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