As Director of Product Analytics at DraftKings, you will lead a team responsible for interpreting and analyzing data to help drive decisions in our product roadmaps and enhance the data competency of the entire Product organization. You’ll play a key role, using our data to help define product strategy, identify opportunities for new features, establish frameworks for measuring and optimizing new features, run experiments, and much more. As the company grows, you’ll be tasked with understanding how our product portfolio is changing and what the implications are for our future strategy. What we need to track, report on, and monitor changes at a rapid pace; the Director of Product Analytics will be crucial for ensuring that we can keep up with that pace, and are always able to make strong data-based decisions.
Lead the Product Analytics team, a team of managers and analysts that generates insights and builds frameworks to measure and add value to the DraftKings product portfolio
Be a hands-on expert of our data environment, knowing where and how all activities throughout our product and marketing channels are tracked
Recruit and hire top-notch analysts and nurture a culture of insatiable curiosity, lively debate, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
Organize team to ensure analysts have clear focus and are aligned with company goals
Build new metrics that enable teams within the company to measure their performance at the best possible level
Develop frameworks and models to help us understand and anticipate customer behavior, and build useful segments to improve targeting
Drive continuous improvement; push the organization to use data in new ways in order to improve business processes
Proactively look to improve the business outside of known opportunities and influence the organization to make needed changes
Help further develop analytics platforms and consistent approaches and methodologies to develop a best-in-class analytics practice
Create and deliver presentations of insights, shared with all levels of the organization including company leadership
Support ad hoc analytic requests to drive day to day decisions
Manage and develop senior analysts
Qualifications:
Highly proficient with data analytics, and experience in data manipulation using a variety of tools
Extremely strong ability to problem solve, especially in areas where you have no experience
Proven history of taking initiative, and having a self-driven approach to determining what’s important to focus on
Natural curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to turn observed data into a story about what behavior is driving that data
Ability to take complicated problems and build simple frameworks
Strong communication and business consulting skills
Able to understand the challenges faced by various teams and identify reporting needs to assist them
Able to define requirements autonomously for any project
Proactive and a self-starter who is comfortable in a fast paced, quickly changing environment, able to juggle multiple jobs simultaneously. Must be a problem solver, eager for keeping busy and engaged.
Exceptional analytical skills and fully capable in problem detection / innovative problem solving
Knowledge of various third party data visualization platforms a plus
BS in Engineering, Mathematics, Business, or a related field
8+ years of Analytics experience, 3+ in a Product organization
Proven success using technology and internally created tools to execute flawlessly
Strong communication and organizational skills
Comfortable in fast paced, results driven environment
SQL or Reporting tools experience required
Experience managing and developing a team of senior analysts
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