Manager, Data Analytics

Role Description

• Drive significant business outcomes by leading impactful and complex data projects that align with strategic priorities.
• Define and execute the vision for data analytics, ensuring alignment with company goals and objectives.
• Provide thought leadership by collaborating with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to translate complex business problems into scalable analytical frameworks.
• Recommend and implement actionable insights that drive measurable results and optimize key business metrics.
• Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert on advanced statistical analysis, experimental design, methodology, and financial impact analysis, ensuring best practices are followed.
• Guide the team in executing A/B testing strategies, data modeling, and predictive analytics to inform decision-making.
• Lead root cause analyses for critical business metrics, crafting structured approaches to identify and address key drivers.
• Facilitate discussions with senior stakeholders and teams to prioritize and implement optimization strategies that drive efficiency and growth.
• Architect and implement automation solutions for analytical processes, including experimentation readouts and self-service analytics, improving scalability and efficiency.
• Drive innovation in reporting and data accessibility to empower stakeholders with real-time insights.
• Lead the development of high-quality data product requirements, dashboard scopes, and automated reporting solutions.
• Build strong partnerships with Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and other data stakeholders to enhance data infrastructure and accessibility.
• Partner with Business Intelligence engineering teams to drive both immediate data initiatives and the long-term vision for data-driven reporting and metric frameworks.
• Advocate for the adoption of best-in-class analytics tools, methodologies, and governance practices.
• Independently identify opportunities for improvement or growth, initiate projects, and lead them to successful outcomes with measurable impact.
• Establish and refine analytical processes to ensure consistency, accuracy, and scalability across the organization.
• Deliver compelling presentations to cross-functional teams and executive leadership, showcasing data-driven insights with clarity and precision.
• Effectively communicate complex analytical findings in a way that drives strategic decision-making and organizational alignment.
• Supervise a team of Staff Engineers, Staff/Sr. Data Analysts, and Capacity Planning Sr. Manager.
• Telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.

Qualifications

• Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or related quantitative field.
• Experience Requirements: Five (5) years of experience as a Lead Data Analyst, Lead Business Analyst, Product Data Analyst, Data Scientist, or related occupation.
• Must have experience with the following:
  • Working directly with executive leadership and product leaders to align analytics with strategic goals.
  • Analytics focused on customer growth, engagement, and lifecycle optimization.
  • Owning and managing data products.
  • Big data technologies (Redshift, S3, Databricks, Datalakes, and Spark).
  • SQL, Python, R, Looker, Tableau, Statistics, Amplitude, Domo, CoreMetrics, Google Analytics, and Excel.

Requirements

• Location: We are currently hiring this role in Santa Monica, California.

Benefits

• The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is $158,900 - $224,250 + equity + benefits.
• Our salary ranges are based on the job, level, and location, and reflect the lowest to highest geographic markets where we are hiring for this role within the United States.
• At Headspace, base salary is but one component of our Total Rewards package, which includes:
  • Stock awards
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Retirement savings match
  • Lifetime Headspace membership
  • Generous parental leave
  • More details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.