Risepoint is seeking a VP of Business Insights & Analytics to build and lead a unified insights capability that transforms data into strategic, actionable intelligence across Marketing & Operations to increase access to affordable education and improve student careers.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building and operationalizing analytics frameworks that improve revenue, reduce costs, or enhance efficiency
- Distinctive ability to translate complex analytics into strategic narratives and executive-ready recommendations
- Deep business acumen across marketing, operations, and partner economics
- Strong technical foundation in modern analytics techniques including predictive modeling, segmentation, lifetime value, funnel analytics, experimentation, optimization, uplift modeling, and causal inference approaches
- Hands-on experience applying AI and ML to generate actionable insights, accelerate analysis, and improve operational performance
- Fluency in modern data and analytics environments, with experience partnering closely with data engineering and BI teams
- Experience with modern analytics and AI ecosystems, including predictive modeling, experimentation, and AI/ML applications
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of analytics solutions that produce measurable business impact, including predictive modeling, AI/ML applications, experimentation, and optimization models
- Own model governance, monitoring, and performance lifecycle in partnership with data engineering
- Introduce and embed a test-and-learn culture across marketing and operations to quantify uplift and ROI
- Use GenAI tools to accelerate insight discovery, automate exploratory analysis, and improve visualization/storytelling
- Partner with data engineering teams to define analytical data needs and ensure teams can leverage high-quality, AI-ready data assets
- Deliver portfolio-level insights that surface revenue opportunities, risk signals, and growth drivers
- Own insights across paid, organic, email, field marketing channels to drive higher ROI and efficiency
Other
- 12+ years of experience in analytics, insights, data science, or data-driven strategy roles with a track record of driving material business impact
- Proven ability to influence executives and drive insight-to-action, including shaping strategic hypotheses, guiding investment decisions, and elevating analytics in leadership discussions
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of developing talent, building high-performing teams, and driving adoption of insights across complex, cross-functional organizations
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and turning open-ended questions into structured, actionable hypotheses and solutions that drive measurable business impact
- Nice to have: prior experience in Management Consulting or strategy roles supporting executive-level decision-making
