Senior Product Analytics Lead

📋 Description

• • Ground News is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Product Analytics Lead to join our growing team. This is a pivotal moment for our company as we scale our product and subscriber base, and the role of Product Analytics becomes increasingly critical in shaping our strategic decisions, measuring success, and ensuring our growth aligns with our core mission to reduce polarization and foster a more nuanced understanding of the world.
• • As the Senior Product Analytics Lead, you will be instrumental in building and refining the data foundation that underpins all product decision-making, experimentation, reporting, and machine-learning initiatives across Ground News. You will have the opportunity to define key metrics, establish robust data models, and set analytical standards that will support our long-term scalability and impact.
• • This is a hands-on role that requires a blend of strategic thinking and meticulous execution. You will be responsible for transforming raw product data into a trusted, actionable analytics layer. This layer will directly inform our product roadmap, validate our product strategies, and provide deep insights into how our unique features influence user behavior and their consumption of news.
• • You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Engineers, and other business leaders. Your responsibilities will include designing data models, auditing logging schemas to ensure data integrity, and developing sophisticated experimentation frameworks. The systems and metrics you establish will form the backbone of how Ground News quantifies its impact and measures success, all while remaining steadfastly committed to our mission.
• • Key responsibilities include conducting in-depth, exploratory analyses to address high-impact questions that are central to Ground News’ product strategy. You will analyze and model the impact of product decisions, ensuring that these insights are presented in a clear, interpretable, and actionable manner, prioritizing simplicity and clarity over unnecessary complexity.
• • You will be tasked with defining, developing, and continuously evolving standardized product and business metrics. These metrics will be crucial for understanding user behavior, engagement patterns, and subscription performance, providing a comprehensive view of our product's health and growth.
• • Developing scalable data models that efficiently answer complex product questions and illuminate user behavior is a core part of this role. You will also create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that effectively surface meaningful product insights, making data accessible and understandable to a wide range of stakeholders.
• • A significant aspect of this role involves leading the design, launch, and rigorous analysis of experiments, including multivariate feature tests, across our entire product ecosystem. This will involve setting up robust A/B testing frameworks and ensuring statistically sound analysis.
• • You will continuously monitor key product and business trends, using this data to inform roadmap planning and strategic prioritization. This proactive approach to data analysis will ensure that our product development is always guided by evidence and user insights.
• • Championing a documentation-first data culture is essential. You will establish best practices for documenting data models, analyses, and metrics to ensure shared understanding, facilitate onboarding, and guarantee long-term scalability and maintainability of our data infrastructure.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly influence the direction of a mission-driven product. You will be empowered to challenge assumptions, collaborate with executive stakeholders, and shape a truly data-driven product roadmap, making a tangible impact on how millions of people consume news.