Director of Analytics Marketplace

Created on 06-09-2018

Location Palo Alto, CA, US

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About Houzz

Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of more than 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.1 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.

Houzz is looking for an execution-oriented, analytical leader who can drive insights around key product and operational initiatives across our rapidly-growing Marketplace business. In a few short years, Houzz has grown into a top ecommerce destination, but we’re just getting started. At our core, we are a data-driven company that relies heavily on our analytics organization to make strategic decisions.

You will be the champion of our data platform and will be tasked with scaling our existing analytics function to help us grow the business. The best analytics leaders understand that their “product” is the tools, accuracy, and accessibility of data so that all individuals can operate in a self-sufficient and trusted way to make the decisions needed to keep us moving aggressively towards our goals.

Additionally, you will lead a cross-functional team comprised of quantitative and business analysts, which means you’ll need to blend a strong technical background with business acumen and possess the managerial skill to lead both groups. You will be responsible for building and developing the entire team and aiding them to partner closely with the product and business teams they serve.

The ideal candidate has already led large analytics teams and has been responsible for driving the overall analytics agenda in prior roles. Your success will be defined by building a team that is excellent at identifying the key insights that enable growth.

What You’ll Do

Collaborate with leadership, product, engineering, sales, operations, and finance teams to deliver a reliable data platform that can be used across the organization to make data-driven decisions

Mentor an existing team of 15 analysts to foster their career growth and improve the overall output of the team

Hire and grow the team

Champion strategic areas where we can invest to improve our data capabilities, tools, and reporting/dashboard infrastructure to enable decision-making throughout the team

Partner with the sales/operations teams to empower self-service access to the data needed to manage day-to-day decisions and identify operational inefficiencies

Work hand in hand with product teams to support strategic growth initiatives

Foster a “data culture” across the organization by leveling up our analytics function

Support the data needs of the executive team

Evangelize the needs of the analytics team to ensure proper resourcing to match the growth of the product and business

Desired Skills & Experience

B.A./B.S. degree in a technical field, ideally computer science, statistics, or engineering

10+ years of relevant work experience, including leading an analytics organization

Prior direct people management experience leading teams of strong technical analysts; this is critical to be able to provide mentorship to a highly-technical team

An innate ability to communicate effectively with very technical and non-technical folks and earn trust across a wide range of organizations

Deep and extensive work experience at a consumer Internet company, with a focus on product analytics

A track record of leading many strategic initiatives and delivering key results

A self-starter who can drive projects to completion

Strong command of SQL and other BI tools

Excellent communication skills, including an ability to synthesize and present results effectively to cross-functional teams

Benefits & Perks

Excellent benefits package (Start day 1)

PTO

Full training & development

Career growth & opportunity

Casual & fun work environment