Manager, Product Analytics

Manager, Product Analytics

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About the Analytics Team

The Analytics team empowers Thumbtack to use data to guide business decisions. We collaborate with partners across the company to solve the most analytically challenging problems -- everything from how we set prices across hundreds of local services categories, to evaluating the impact of a new business model on company performance, to identifying early predictors of high-quality customers. We are a tight-knit, intellectually curious team that is committed to improving Thumbtack and improving each other.

About the Role

The Manager, Product Analytics will be a cross-functional leader who will help us grow our Home Care solution, providing our customers with a tailored experience to fix, maintain, and improve their home. As a part of our product analytics team, you’ll work collaboratively with peers across product management, engineering, design, marketing and go-to-market functions. The ideal candidate is able to lead others with analytical rigor, influence senior stakeholders with data, clearly articulate and execute top priorities and last but not least, grow, motivate and maximize the impact of a team of experienced product analysts.

Responsibilities

The Manager, Product Analytics has a well-balanced mix of responsibilities including deep analytics, team management, product strategy and product development:

  • Influence Thumbtack’s vision to become the go-to app for all our customer’s home projects
  • Partner with leaders from product management, engineering, design, marketing and go-to-market teams to execute on our product vision
  • Manage, mentor and grow senior pro analysts
  • Set up an analytics roadmap, identify key questions that will unblock product development and liaise with technical stakeholders on data and experimentation infrastructure
  • Coordinate with analytics leaders in adjacent product teams to run a well-managed, productive and motivated Thumbtack analytics team

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 4-5 years of experience in analytics, data science or economics
  • 1-2 years of experience managing analysts or data scientists
  • Experience analyzing customer lifetime value, identifying profitable customer segments, and prioritizing product/marketing opportunities to serve customers
  • Experience managing stakeholders with competing priorities in areas such as Product Management, Design, Engineering and Marketing
  • Experience scoping, analyzing, and communicating results of experiments
  • Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with senior leadership
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctoral degree in one of the following areas; Statistics, Engineering, Analytics, Math, Computer Science, Operations Research

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • A well-balanced combination of big-picture thinking, ability to thrive in ambiguity, exceptional problem solving skills and patience to teach others and uphold a high bar
  • Experience working on a 2-sided marketplace. Understanding of economic theory especially in the area of balancing supply and demand
  • Current or prior technical depth in data extraction, statistical analysis, modeling and general familiarity with data languages and statistical tools (SQL, Python, R, Stata)

Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Ontario or the Philippines. When it is safe to gather, we will begin to host in-person events on a regular basis. Remote employees will be expected to travel occasionally for these events to a Thumbtack library or offsite team-building location. Additionally, employees in the San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto and Manila areas will have opt-in access to communal workspace at one of our Thumbtack libraries. 

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