Rover
Tech / AI / Software
DirectorofAnalytics
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“Director of Analytics at Rover. Skills: Product Analytics, Analytics Leadership, Experimentation, Metric Frameworks, Stakeholder Influence. Lead and develop Rover's Product Analytics team, including analysts and analytics managers, with a focus on judgment, technical depth, and business impact. Set the analytics agenda for the product organization and connect it to company priorities, marketplace health, customer experience, and long-term growth”
What You'll Achieve.
connect it to company priorities, marketplace health, customer experience, and long-term growth; shape roadmap and operating decisions; experiments inform real decisions; analytics drive change across the company
Industry & Context.
identify the highest-value questions; frame tradeoffs; pressure-testing assumptions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a closely related field, with significant time supporting product, growth, marketplace, or consumer technology teams, 5+ years of experience leading analytics teams, including experience managing managers and developing senior individual contributors, Expert-level SQL, fluency with a modern analytics stack, including data warehouses, BI tools, product analytics platforms, and experimentation tools, Comfort writing analysis code in Python, R, or a similar language when the work calls for it, Deep understanding of experimentation, metric design, causal reasoning, and the common ways analyses can mislead decision-makers, Experience improving data foundations, including event instrumentation, metric definitions, data quality, and analytics workflows, A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and changing business or product direction through clear analysis and communication, Experience hiring, coaching, and raising technical standards for analysts and analytics managers
Nice to Have
Marketplace, e-commerce, subscription, or other scaled consumer product experience is strongly preferred, An advanced degree in a quantitative field is helpful, but not required
What You'll Do.
Lead and develop Rover's Product Analytics team
including analysts and analytics managers
with a focus on judgment
Set the analytics agenda for the product organization and connect it to company priorities
and executive leaders to identify the highest-value questions
and shape roadmap and operating decisions
Establish clear metric frameworks for product and marketplace performance
including definitions
instrumentation expectations
and regular readouts for leaders
Raise the bar for experimentation at Rover: guide test design
and follow-through so experiments inform real decisions
Stay close to the technical work by reviewing analyses
writing or reading SQL as needed
pressure-testing assumptions
and coaching the team on better analytic methods
Work with Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure to improve data quality
and self-service access for product and business teams
Build the habits that help analytics drive change across the company
from stronger narratives and decision forums to better education for non-analytics partners
and grow a team that can balance deep analysis with pragmatic business judgment
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and executive leaders; Work with Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure
Communication Scope
communication; clear analysis and communication
Full Job Description
## Description Who we are: At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. ## Key responsibilities Lead and develop Rover's Product Analytics team, including analysts and analytics managers, with a focus on judgment, technical depth, and business impact Set the analytics agenda for the product organization and connect it to company priorities, marketplace health, customer experience, and long-term growth Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and executive leaders to identify the highest-value questions, frame tradeoffs, and shape roadmap and operating decisions Establish clear metric frameworks for product and marketplace performance, including definitions, instrumentation expectations, reporting standards, and regular readouts for leaders Raise the bar for experimentation at Rover: guide test design, statistical rigor, interpretation, and follow-through so experiments inform real decisions Stay close to the technical work by reviewing analyses, writing or reading SQL as needed, pressure-testing assumptions, and coaching the team on better analytic methods Work with Data Engineering and D
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