Marketing Analytics Lead

Role Description

As UpGuard continues its rapid growth trajectory, we are seeking an experienced data analyst to support our Marketing team. Reporting to the Director of Analytics, this critical role is responsible for driving significant business value by quantifying marketing performance, illuminating the contribution of every channel and program, and translating ambiguous marketing questions into durable data models and insights. The analyst will partner closely with Demand Generation, Partner Marketing, Field Marketing, Product Marketing, and Brand to help the Marketing team understand what's working, where to invest the next dollar, and how pipeline is being built across the full funnel.

• Actionable Insight: Generate compelling and actionable insights from complex, multi-source marketing data sets that directly inform channel investment, campaign design, and pipeline strategy.
• Stakeholder engagement: Establish strong collaborative relationships with marketing leaders and operators across demand gen, partner, field, product marketing, and brand, delivering high-impact analytics initiatives that translate loose, evolving requirements into clear deliverables.
• Attribution & Measurement: Design, build, and maintain the attribution framework for UpGuard – spanning first and multi-touch attribution and incrementality testing – and clearly communicate the trade-offs and assumptions behind each lens.
• Channel & Program Analytics: Develop a deep, first-principles understanding of channel logic across paid media, organic, content, lifecycle, partner, and field, and build the metrics, models, and dashboards that let each program owner self-serve their performance.
• Data Products: Partner with the data engineering team to design, construct, and maintain foundational marketing data assets – translating loose marketing requirements into well-specified dbt models that the whole organisation can rely on.
• Business Intelligence: Partner strategically with marketing stakeholders to provide robust self-service and conversational analytics capabilities, using design thinking principles to build user-friendly dashboards for funnel performance, channel ROI, partner sourced pipeline, and field event attribution.
• Deep Dive analysis: Personally conduct thorough, hands-on, technical analysis to diagnose and solve the most significant marketing challenges – from channel saturation and diminishing returns to lead quality decay and campaign cannibalisation.
• Commercial Analysis: Provide ongoing operational support to the commercial growth of the organisation, connecting marketing investment to pipeline, ARR, and payback in ways that finance and the executive team trust.

Qualifications

• Proven Leadership: 4+ years delivering analytics solutions for Marketing teams within a high-growth SaaS company.
• Marketing Domain Expertise: Strong working knowledge of channel logic across paid, organic, lifecycle, partner, and field marketing – including how each channel is planned, instrumented, and measured – and fluency in attribution methodologies (multi-touch, incrementality, and marketing mix modelling).
• Partner & Field Marketing Fluency: Understanding of how partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline is tracked, and how field marketing programs (events, conferences) are measured against pipeline and revenue outcomes.
• Requirements Translation: A demonstrated ability to take loose, ambiguous, or evolving marketing requirements and translate them into well-structured dbt models, clear metric definitions, and insights stakeholders can act on.
• Consulting Background: Experience in a consulting role, successfully managing a diverse portfolio of projects across various companies and stakeholder groups.
• Data Infrastructure Expertise: Strong understanding of modern data infrastructure (e.g., cloud data warehouses like BigQuery; ETL/ELT tools; dbt model development; modern data visualisation tools like ThoughtSpot, OMNI, Looker).
• Exceptional Business Acumen: Ability to quickly understand complex business problems, identify key performance indicators, and translate data into strategic insights that drive tangible business value.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, with the ability to articulate complex analytical concepts – including attribution and MMM trade-offs – to both technical and non-technical audiences and influence decision-making.
• Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Highly analytical and strategic mindset, with a proven track record of developing and executing data strategies that align with marketing and business objectives.
• Data Development: Directly engage in the creation of fundamental data and Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure and assets, including hands-on dbt model authorship.

Requirements

• Data Science / AI Engineering: Proven experience as a data scientist or AI engineer, ideally within a SaaS company environment, with exposure to uplift or lead score prediction modelling, or causal inference techniques.
• Marketing Tech Stack: Hands-on experience with marketing source systems such as HubSpot, Salesforce, paid media platforms (Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta), and lifecycle tools, and an understanding of how their data shapes downstream analytics.
• Financial Acumen: Experience connecting marketing analytics to FP&A processes – budget planning, payback modelling, CAC/LTV reporting, and board-level marketing narratives.

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being.
• WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard.
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance.
• Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries.
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role.
• Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave.
• Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance.
• Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role.
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work.