Director of Analytics
San Francisco, California / $180000 - $250000
INFO
$180000 - $250000
LOCATION
San Francisco, California
Permanent
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING ANALYTICS
200-250k Total Comp
FULLY REMOTE
COMPANY
The organization specializes in the provision of genealogical and familial historical research services, designed to facilitate the exploration of individual ancestral origins and foster a connection with past familial generations. By offering a diverse range of resources, including DNA testing, online research, and historical record access, customers can gain a more profound comprehension of their roots and cultural heritage. The company's overarching objective is to empower individuals to explore and celebrate their unique family history, regardless of their ethnic, social, or cultural background, allowing them to unearth fascinating insights into their ancestry and cultivate deeper familial connections that they may have never known existed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities for Director of Analytics:
- Provide thought leadership for customer and marketing analytics, generating deep and actionable insights, surfacing new trends in marketing metrics and measurement, and driving effectiveness and efficiency
- Develop a vision and roadmap to create best-in-class analytics and reporting capabilities
- Build a global marketing efficiency and effective strategy and framework including media mix modeling, marketing attribution, and experimentation
- Standardize KPIs, dashboards, data sources, etc. for simplicity, scale, and cost optimization
- Develop a strategy for data enrichment opportunities across marketing data in line with data governance and ethics standards
- Effectively translate and communicate outputs in the form of actionable insights and recommendations for cross-functional teams and leadership to enable strategic and tactical decision making
- Provide expert consultation to senior leaders, driving priorities based on a holistic view of marketing, and providing analytics insights that enable informed decisions
- Lead and grow a team of marketing analysts by recruiting, training, and developing the team
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems (graduate degree a plus) and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong knowledge of data architecture with technical skills in big data, data warehousing, and analytics tech stacks
- Experience managing compliance requirements and programs to protect sensitive data, including SOX, GDPR, CCPA, BCP/DR, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in paid media measurement, attribution, media mix modeling, A/B and multivariate testing, creative testing, and user segmentation
- Strong business acumen to translate data capabilities into outcomes that align with business objectives and support real-time decision making
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing initiatives, set clear team objectives, and manage complex cross-functional relationships including C-suite level stakeholders
- Assertive, adaptable, and demonstrating initiative in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Highly analytical with strong communication skills and the ability to communicate highly complex information in clear and simple language
- Ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.
CONTACT
Randy Stralen
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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