Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Zebra is an online insurance comparison company that helps customers shop for car and home insurance. The Manager of Data Analytics will lead and develop a team of product, marketing, and data analysts, driving trusted insights, scalable analytics capabilities, and better business decisions. The role partners with cross-functional teams and Data Engineering on measurement, analytics modeling, experimentation, reporting, and data strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product, marketing, and data analysts, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance coaching
- Prioritize and plan your team's work with stakeholders, tracking progress, removing blockers, and ensuring on-time delivery
- Partner with Product, Marketing, Finance, and Data Engineering to translate business needs into actionable insights and scalable analytics solutions
- Support new products and initiatives with the measurement, instrumentation, analysis, and reporting needed to understand performance
- Drive the quality, reliability, timeliness, and business impact of the analysis, insights, data models, and reporting your team delivers
- Provide technical oversight on analytics modeling, experimentation, tooling, and coding best practices, raising standards through reviews and retrospectives
- Expand trusted self-service analytics, enabling teams across The Zebra to answer common questions while allowing analysts to focus on higher-value insights and decision support
- Identify gaps in our data and measurement, and partner with Data Engineering and Engineering to drive them to resolution
- Contribute to the broader data strategy, helping define best practices, shared metrics, and quality standards across the data lifecycle
- Partner with recruiting to attract, hire, and onboard analytics talent
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in a data role (analytics, analytics engineering, or data science), including 2+ years directly managing a team
- Strong proficiency with SQL and a working command of Python
- Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, experimentation, reporting, and statistical analysis
- Experience with modern data tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Looker, or Tableau
- Fluency with AI tools and how to use them to drive outcomes for an analytics team
- Passionate about building and coaching successful analytics teams, with a track record of developing people technically and professionally
- Organized and excited about creating and optimizing analytics processes to set the team up for success
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience managing multiple priorities and adapting in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Ad tech, marketing analytics, or growth analytics experience
- Experience in insurance, insurtech, or fintech
- Experience building or owning an experimentation program end to end
- Experience working on a high-traffic, customer-facing website
Benefits
- Stock option offering
- Health, dental, vision & disability coverage
- Sabbatical program for tenured employees
- HSA with employer contribution
- Fertility support through Carrot
- $100 monthly wellness perk
- $300 pet reimbursement program
- 401k with match
- Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
- Paid parental leave program
- Learning & development opportunities
- Employee Resource Groups
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