Manager, Data Analytics Santa Monica, California, United States

About the Manager, Data Analytics at Headspace What you will do: 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, and facilitating discussions with senior stakeholders to prioritize implementation of optimization strategies. 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. What you will bring: Required Skills: Education: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or related quantitative field. Experience: Five (5) years of experience as a Lead Data Analyst, Lead Business Analyst, Product Data Analyst, Data Scientist, or related occupation. Hands‑on experience working directly with executive leadership and product leaders to align analytics initiatives 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); and SQL, Python, R, Looker, Tableau, Statistics, Amplitude, Domo, CoreMetrics, Google Analytics, and Excel. Location: Santa Monica, California Compensation: $158,900 – $224,250 + equity + benefits Headspace is an equal‑opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, and any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. #J-18808-Ljbffr Headspace