Strategic Lead, Product Data Science & Analytics

CrossTalent; Polska; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Tripadvisor is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Data Science to lead a high-performing team of analysts and data scientists embedded within product domains. You will raise analytical standards, shape experimentation, and drive data-driven decision-making across Product, Engineering, Design and Commercial teams.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to define priorities, build roadmaps, and scale AI-enabled tooling, ensuring robust, actionable insights and measurable impact across multiple

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and grow a team of Product Analysts and/or Data Scientists, ensuring consistently high performance, strong technical standards, and clear ownership of impact.
• Drive effective goal-setting, planning and execution processes across Product Data Science, bringing leadership and discipline to OKRs, prioritisation and delivery against strategic objectives.
• Set and continuously raise the bar for analytical quality, experimentation rigour, and data science application across your teams, ensuring outputs are robust, actionable, and decision-oriented.
• Act as a senior technical and strategic leader, reviewing and shaping high-impact analytical work, experimentation design, and advanced modelling approaches where required.
• Partner closely with senior Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Commercial leaders to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and ensure data science is embedded in strategic decision-making.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical and data science problems, ensuring your team delivers clear, commercially meaningful recommendations.
• Drive adoption of scalable analytical frameworks, experimentation standards, and AI-enabled tooling to improve efficiency, consistency, and speed of decision-making across teams.
• Champion best practices in experimentation, causal inference, segmentation, and customer understanding, ensuring statistical and analytical rigor across the organisation.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Data Platform, Data Engineering and other central data functions, ensuring the team can effectively leverage shared capabilities while influencing the long-term data ecosystem.
• Build and evolve the team’s capability through hiring, coaching, and performance management, ensuring strong technical depth and leadership within the function.
• Identify and remove systemic blockers to high-quality analytics delivery, improving tooling, processes, ways of working and organisational effectiveness across Product Data Science while leading change that enables the team to scale.
• Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders across multiple product domains, ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and strong decision-making discipline.

Job description

Tripadvisor is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Data Science to lead a high-performing team of analysts and data scientists embedded within product domains. You will raise analytical standards, shape experimentation, and drive data-driven decision-making across Product, Engineering, Design and Commercial teams.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to define priorities, build roadmaps, and scale AI-enabled tooling, ensuring robust, actionable insights and measurable impact across multiple