Senior Specialist - Product Analytics

On; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

On is seeking a Senior Specialist - Product Analytics in Zürich to partner with product teams, define analytical priorities, and deliver data-driven insights. You will build and maintain self-serve dashboards using Hex or Looker, and explore AI-enabled workflows to automate recurring analyses.

You will work across product, design, development, and sourcing to structure ambiguous problems, write efficient queries, and provide actionable recommendations that influence product priorities and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product analytics, BI, or operational analytics.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers and operations to identify critical questions and frame analytical priorities.
• Structure ambiguous problems into repeatable analytical frameworks.
• Lead end-to-end analysis: write queries, clean data, model metrics, and deliver recommendations.
• Design and maintain self-serve dashboards and reports for day-to-day decisions (Hex/Looker/Tableau/Power BI).
• Champion AI-driven analytics to automate recurring analysis and enable self-serve data exploration.
• Present findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders and guide decisions.
• Collaborate with Operational Excellence to improve metric definitions, data quality, and reporting efficiency.

Skills

SQL

Python (pandas)

AI-assisted analytics

BI dashboards

Excel / Google Sheets

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Business Analytics, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

Hex

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

In Short

As a Senior Specialist - Product Analytics at On, you will partner closely with our product teams to help them make grounded, data-informed decisions. Working directly with colleagues across Innovation, Strategy, Design, Development and Sourcing, you will take ambiguous business questions, dig into complex operational and product data, and deliver clear, practical analysis that guides our product and strategic priorities.

If you enjoy owning analytical projects end-to-end, solving real-world product challenges, and seeing your work directly shape how products get made, we would love to hear from you.

Your Mission

• Partner with Key Stakeholders: Work directly with product managers, strategy leads, and operations teams across Design, Development, and Sourcing to identify critical business questions and frame analytical priorities.
• Structure Ambiguous Problems: Take open-ended challenges and break them down into structured, repeatable analytical frameworks.
• Lead Analysis End-to-End: Write clean, efficient queries, pull and clean datasets, and model operational metrics to provide straightforward answers and clear recommendations.
• Build & Maintain Core BI Tools: Design, build, and maintain self-serve dashboards and reports (using tools like Hex or Looker) that stakeholders can rely on for day-to-day decisions.
• Champion AI-Driven Analytics: Proactively explore, pilot, and integrate AI and LLM-powered workflows to automate recurring analysis, synthesize unstructured product data, and enable intuitive, self-serve data exploration for non-technical stakeholders.
• Communicate Clearly: Present findings clearly in concise summaries, visual dashboards, and discussion sessions, ensuring non-technical partners understand the takeaways and next steps.
• Strengthen Data Practices: Collaborate with the Operational Excellence team to improve metric definitions, data quality, and reporting efficiency across the product organization.

Your Story

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in product analytics, business intelligence, or operational analytics, preferably within retail, consumer goods, apparel/footwear, or tech.
• Education: Degree in Business Analytics, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong SQL skills for writing efficient queries and modeling relational datasets.
  • Practical proficiency in Python (e.g., pandas) or R for exploratory data analysis, data manipulation, and automation.
  • Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted analytics, LLM tools/APIs, or AI features within modern data platforms to accelerate query generation, data prep, and insight synthesis.
  • Hands-on experience developing dashboards and reports in modern BI platforms (e.g., Hex, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI).
  • Advanced spreadsheet modeling skills (Excel / Google Sheets).
• Analytical Problem-Solving: A proven ability to take ambiguous business questions, structure them logically, and produce reliable, data-backed recommendations.
• Stakeholder Management: Comfortable presenting data to cross-functional leads and guiding discussions.

Meet the Team

You will be part of the Operational Excellence team: an entrepreneurial, dynamic and talented group focused on evolving the product organization (innovation, product strategy, design, development, sourcing) to new levels of effectiveness and performance.

What We Offer

On is a place that is centred around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.