Product Analytics Lead

Sana Commerce; Dubai; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing scale-up in Dubai seeks a Product Analytics Lead to drive insights and influence product decisions. In this hands-on leadership role, you will lead a team in analytics and user research, developing strategies that improve learner outcomes and support data-informed decision making.

Benefits

Free meditation and therapy sessions

Career framework and growth coaching

Hybrid working policy

Monthly dinners

Interchangeable Public Holiday Policy

Qualifications

• 6 years in product analytics in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Strong command of SQL and fluency in an analytical language.
• Hands-on experience with product analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead product analytics team to deliver insights.
• Oversee user research embedding insights into lifecycle.
• Build and maintain data dashboards and infrastructure.

Skills

Product Analytics

SQL

Python

R

User Research

Communication

Tools

Mixpanel

Amplitude

Looker

GA

Job description

About the Role
As Product Analytics Lead youll lead our product analytics function and oversee user research. Your primary focus will be on driving deep strategic insights from data that inform product decisions shape our roadmap and ultimately improve learner outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership role where youll coach a small but mighty analytics team and work cross-functionally with product managers designers and engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop our product analytics team ensuring delivery of high-impact actionable insights.
• Oversee the user research function embedding customer insights throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Build and maintain dashboards KPIs and data infrastructure to support self-serve and strategic analytics.
• Design and evaluate experiments and causal analyses that inform product decisions and strategy.
• Define and maintain a consistent tracking and event taxonomy across the product.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define success metrics and measurement plans.
• Translate data and user research into clear compelling narratives that influence stakeholders.
• Identifies new opportunities for leveraging data.
• Forecasting trends interpreting complex data and communicating actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Create scalable processes for insight delivery balancing ad-hoc needs with long-term learning goals.
• Coach and grow talent across analytics and research disciplines.
• Champion a culture of analytics promoting literacy across departments and advocating for robust data governance practices.
• Be a champion of data-informed decision making across the entire organization.

Qualifications :

Must-Have Skills:

• 6 years in product analytics data science or insights in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Track record of influencing product or business decisions through proactive insights.
• Strong command of SQL and fluency in at least one analytical language (e.g. Python or R).
• Hands-on experience with product analytics tools (e.g. Mixpanel Amplitude Looker GA).
• Solid understanding of user research methodologies (e.g. interviews usability tests surveys).
• Experience leading a team and mentoring junior analysts or researchers.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skillstranslating complexity into clarity.

Nice to Have:

• Prior ownership of both analytics and user research functions.
• Experience working in low-volume high-complexity environments (e.g. B2B vs. B2C).
• Familiarity with data pipeline tools (e.g. dbt BigQuery Segment).

What Success Looks Like:

• Delivery of high-quality insights that shape product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Champion a culture of analytics promoting literacy across departments and advocating for robust data governance practices.
• Increased customer understanding across all product teams.
• Scalable systems for measurement and research embedded in team workflows.
• Growing capabilities of the insights team and wider product org.

Additional Information :

Whats in it for you:

• Working in a fun & international environment surrounded by a dedicated team.
• Being part of a fast-growing scale-up environment where you can make an impact from day one.
• Free meditation and personal therapy sessions through our esteemed partners like Calm and Openup
• Career framework and growth coaching.
• Develop yourself in the direction you love most. Due to our fast growth many new opportunities are unfolding quickly
• Hybrid working policy. (Ask us about the location-specific policies)
• Monthly dinners
• Interchangeable Public Holiday Policy

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time