Director, Product Analytics
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The Hired Guns are seeking a Director of Product Analytics who can haul in e-tail activations by the truckload for a major e-commerce retailer. If working for a Top-Ten name in online shopping sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you. (Relocation package available.) The Nitty Gritty The backstory on the organization and why they need to hire you! This company needs someone who can jump on the moving train of a high-volume (think top 10 in America) e-commerce product analytics team. This job is first and foremost a people-management position, overseeing data gathering and management, developing insights, and working with the product team to implement data-driven optimizations to the e-commerce experience on both mobile and web. The Quest What success looks like in your first year…
- Very quickly, get the lay of the land in terms of the existing product analytics playbook and learn the ropes on all existing processes.
- Work with the VP of Analytics to help build out a team of analysts to drive repeatability and scalability throughout the organization.
- Once the product analytics team is running at full speed, devise an innovation roadmap to optimize the website and app experiences.
- What is your proudest achievement in e-commerce analytics? What problems were you trying to solve, what methods did you use to research and report on those problems, and how did you communicate with stakeholders to set an action plan based on your insights? How did those actions lead to more customers in the funnel?
- What kind of team are you running at the moment? How many direct reports do you have, and what is your interaction with them on a day-to-day basis? Describe a scenario in which you were able to get in the weeds and assist your team in a technical and tactical way.
- How have you helped build a data-driven culture in your organization? Describe a scenario in which you’ve acted as a thought leader to push the business forward. How did you make your case to executive leadership, and what were the results?
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