Vice President of Analytics

Key Skills

Data Analytics, Data science techniques, KPI, Large scale data processing, Leadership, Machine learning techniques, Management, RJ Metrics, Translation

Job Description

Our Ways of Working

We’re a remote-first company with team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees so people can get the work done in the way that suits them best. With rare exception, our employees generally work 9-5 in their home time zone.

We also know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build community and collaboration, we gather in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually. As this role sits on the leadership team, there is also the expectation that you would attend 1-2 leadership team retreats each year.

What the role is

The Vice President of Analytics will lead the strategy and adoption for Babylist to leverage a vast amount of first-party data to drive critical operational and strategic decisions across all aspects of our business. This leadership role will manage analytics, research, testing and optimization efforts, bringing forward actionable insights to enable data-driven decision-making. As a senior leader, you will manage a talented team of data analysts and data scientists to leverage a substantial amount of data including all of the gifts that were given off Babylist in the past year, advertising spend, inventory purchasing, and feature usage to help us make smarter decisions. The Vice President of Analytics will also work closely with our executive team to identify opportunities that accelerate business transformation. Ultimately, we are looking for someone to raise the bar for strategic decision making at Babylist which is currently used and loved by millions of parents and gift givers and within the top 1,500 most visited websites in the US; mobile apps having over 50k 5-star ratings! 

Role & Responsibilities

You will be a key member of the leadership team, reporting to and partnering closely with the CEO, Natalie Gordon, to help drive the company’s strategy and growth. You will:

• Work closely with executive leadership and individual department heads on overall company strategy and data priorities.
• Encourage a balanced approach to decision making that synthesizes data into a complete picture of the short-term results and long-term impact. 
• Create a leadership culture that values learning, development, coaching, and growth. You think proactively about org structure, hiring, and team placement to set your teams and the company up for maximum success. You will lead and scale the Data Analytics team. 
• Ensure your team has the skills that it needs to effectively deliver today's roadmap, while also scaling the team's expertise to grow with the company.
• Turn business issues into the right research questions; pursue and guide the best research approach including qualitative and quantitative insight programs that will create excellent, impactful insights that develop and move strategy forward and empower decision making.
• Partner with key stakeholders (including product, marketing, finance, customer service, and engineering) to meet analytical needs and continuously improve our insight-creation capabilities.
• Drive a deeper understanding of our users, business and industry to serve as a trusted partner that provides data-driven insights to inform strategy and aid in decision making.

Professional Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data Analytics, ideally in a large-scale, high-growth consumer business
• 10+ years of leadership experience, building and leading teams of data analyst and data scientists
• Previous experience focused on consumer products is required
• Exceptional business and financial acumen. Worked in annual planning processes, setting KPIs and then hitting them (as a team). 
• History of taking strong ownership of difficult strategic problems and delivering actionable plans to address them.
• Strong technical expertise including the ability to manage complex problems and competing priorities. 
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment and translation between business, customer and technical teams. 
• Professional experience in ML
• Experience building, managing, and growing a robust analytics organization with strong functional expertise and influence, while fostering a supportive learning environment.

Personal Characteristics

• Strong and persuasive communicator, and proven ability to collaborate effectively with management, staff, vendors, and with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly organized, energetic, and influential leader, with demonstrable experience leading, developing and mentoring analytics professionals, growing future leaders and inspiring high performing teams.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.
• You have a broad and deep understanding of the metrics that drive the business and use that understanding to guide the data strategy. 
• Effective and persuasive in leading change across multiple groups, driving alignment, applying business acumen, company values and emotional intelligence that inspires others.
• Embraces and demonstrates a true growth mindset in their own, ongoing personal development as well as in how they develop and evaluate the potential of others.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and accountability.
• You inspire your teams. They want to work for and learn from you. You are excited to mentor leaders and manage high-performing teams.
• Ability to weigh competing priorities, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders, driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching business priorities.

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We are a remote first company and we invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning