Head of Product Analytics

Hostaway; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hostaway is seeking its first Product Analytics leader to define how we measure and decide what to build, and to prove the impact of our work across the product organization in an AI-driven company.

You will set standards, build instrumentation, write queries, and partner with product leaders to embed measurement in planning, ensuring evidence-based decisions and clear metrics in a fast-growing business.

Qualifications

• 8 years in product analytics, ideally in B2B SaaS at a scaling stage
• Strong data foundations; design reliable data models and event tracking
• Experience with SQLMesh is a plus; strong use of AI tools in daily work
• Proven ability to move teams from gut feel to data-led decisions and influence product reviews

Responsibilities

• Set the product measurement standards and segmentation
• Integrate measurement into planning and requirements documents with impact sizing
• Design AI-native measurement approaches where traditional AB testing is limited
• Translate data into investment decisions and raise metrics fluency among PMs
• Establish analytics operating models and instrumentation/spec data quality guidelines
• Remain hands-on: write queries and perform analyses daily

Skills

Data-driven decision making

Influence without title

Hands-on analytics

Domain knowledge in B2B SaaS

Communication / storytelling

Tools

Mesh

SQL

Job description

About the role

Hostaway is looking for its first Product Analytics leader someone to own how we choose what to build and to prove what it delivered This role is about setting the standards and building the tools that help teams move faster with confidence You ll define what good looks like set the standards for how we measure and bring the whole product organization along with you You ll work alongside our product leaders who decide which bets we make helping make sure the evidence behind them is solid In a company leaning hard into AI you ll also work out what measurement even means when the AI not the human is doing the work It s a rare chance to be first to shape the processes metrics and KPIs in a fast-growing profitable AI-first company with low bureaucracy and little hierarchy Your work will make the impact of everyone around you visible

Your Mission

• Set the product measurement standard what counts as an active adopting customer and how every analysis gets segmented
• Bring measurement into planning early so every product requirements document includes sizing an expected metric impact and a measurement plan
• Design measurement where clean A B tests aren t available and redefine it for an AI-native product where activity metrics no longer tell the full story
• Bring numbers to investment decisions and grow metrics fluency so product managers can bring their own numbers to reviews
• Set the technical standards and build the function tracking plans instrumentation specs data quality starting with an experienced product analyst
• Stay close to the work You ll remain hands-on day to day writing queries and building analyses yourself rather than only directing others

Job requirements

• 8 years in product analytics ideally in B2B SaaS at a scaling stage We re open to strong candidates from other product backgrounds too
• Strong data foundations You know how to design clean reliable data models together with Data Engineering and how to set up event tracking that stays consistent across features and domains Experience with SQLMesh is a plus You use AI tools heavily in your own work and understand where they help and where they mislead
• Influence beyond your title You ve disagreed with a senior leader about a number backed it up with evidence and your definition was still in use six months later You ve helped a company move from gut feel to data-led decisions and you work patiently with product managers to find what fits a company of our size
• You build the function not just run it You ve set up analytics operating models rather than inherited them You can build business models that hold up to a finance leader s scrutiny and you can show what actually worked designing fair comparisons in a complex B2B product and being honest about what a number does and does not prove

Nice to have

• Measuring AI features automated workflows or API usage product-led growth churn modeling platform businesses with more than one user type ours are property managers and their guests travel hospitality or property technology

This role probably isn t for you if

• You see analytics as a service desk waiting for tickets to come in
• You re a dashboard specialist Dashboards are an output the real work is changing how decisions get made
• You ve only worked in large mature data organizations where the frameworks and teams were already established
• You need a formal title to have influence