Babylist is looking to solve the problem of leveraging data to inform product decisions across their platform, aiming to improve user experiences and drive business outcomes. They need a leader to enhance data fluency, sharpen decision-making, and enable intelligent scaling through a clear analytics vision.
Requirements
- Sigma, Hex, Indicative, Google Analytics
- dbt, Snowflake
- Avo, Segment
- Python, Airflow, AWS SageMaker, Anthropic
- Deeply Engaged in What We're Building: You’re not content delivering dashboards in isolation. You ask why we’re building something, challenge assumptions, and contribute to the product vision with data-driven curiosity
- Strategic and Hands-On: You know how to zoom out and drive the big picture, but also when to jump into SQL or a dashboard to guide your team or unlock a blocker
- Analytics-Rooted: You bring deep applied analytics experience, turning data into product decisions, metrics, and roadmaps, and you have partnered closely with data-science teams to translate models into measurable user and business impact
Responsibilities
- Lead and Grow the Product Analytics Function: Mentor and develop a high-performing team of product analysts.
- Shape Product Strategy Through Data: Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Engineering partners to inform prioritization, refine hypotheses, and co-own product KPIs and experimentation
- Advance Analytics Maturity: Set and execute a 12-18 month vision for analytics at Babylist.
- Enable ML-Powered Personalization: Partner with Data Science to turn machine-learning capabilities into experiment-backed product experiences with clear business impact.
- Improve Data Fluency Across the Org: Equip PMs and business stakeholders with self-service tools and training that make data more accessible and decisions more confident
- Standardize Metrics and KPIs: Own the taxonomy and governance of product KPIs.
- Champion Product Experimentation: Guide end-to-end A/B testing efforts, from test design to interpretation.
Other
- Experienced Analytics Leader: You’ve spent 10+ years in product analytics and have managed a small but mighty team.
- Product-First Thinker: You see analytics as a way to build better user experiences.
- Cross-Functional Operator: You’re comfortable navigating the competing priorities of Finance, Tech, and Product.
- People-Centered Leadership: You lead with empathy and transparency.
- Communicate and Advocate with Influence: Represent the team clearly and confidently with stakeholders at all levels, including the VP and C-suite.
