AI-Driven Analytics Director for Impact

Educate!; Göteborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid or remote work

Competitive salary based on experience

Meaningful learning and growth

Diversity and inclusion focus

Job summary

Educate! in Sweden seeks an experienced analytics leader to transform the Performance Metrics function into an AI‑native team. You will sit on a cross‑functional senior leadership team and drive the predictive analytics strategy across product, implementation, and metrics groups.

In the first year, you will define strategy, operating model, and staffing for the AI‑native function, with 90% adoption of self‑serve analytics and a healthy analytics‑engineering layer on BigQuery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in analytics, data, or M&E roles; several years building and leading teams.
• Experience managing managers and guiding team growth.
• Built or substantially grown a data or analytics team; proven hiring and development.
• Strong analytics‑engineering depth with fluency in SQL, dbt workflows, and BigQuery.
• Deep understanding of metrics layers, data models, transformations, and pipeline quality.
• Ability to design indicators, ensure accuracy, timeliness, consistency, validity, and traceability.
• Effective cross‑functional partner and communicator; explains technical trade‑offs to non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, operating model, and priorities for the performance metrics function.
• Establish direction, standards, and expectations across the department.
• Build the function’s capability: team structures, processes, cross‑functional forums, and coaching for leaders.
• Build systems and standards to support day‑to‑day program execution.
• Maintain boundaries and hand‑offs with the evaluation team.
• Partner with central tech to ensure upstream pipelines meet standards.
• Design end‑to‑end data architecture – ingestion, warehousing, transformation, delivery.
• Stand up a modern BI stack with self‑serve reporting and automated pipelines.
• Define the quality bar for the analytics engineering layer (dbt, BigQuery).
• Direct technical judgment, assess quality, and execute delivery.
• Collaborate with product, implementation, and metrics teams to define operational metrics.
• Build dashboards for different audiences and enforce collaborative processes.
• Ensure analytics dashboards, insights, and decision tools are used by implementation and leadership.
• Raise data literacy across the organization.
• Transition analysts from manual reporting to semantic layer focus, enabling AI optimization.
• Develop strategy to improve frontline data usage with AI and qualitative data.
• Senior cross‑functional partner to tech, evaluation, and product; trusted advisor to the COO.
• Sponsor the function’s contribution to cross‑functional data science workstream.
• Champion shared tools, standards, and ways of working that lift analytics capability.

Skills

SQL

dbt workflows

BigQuery

Analytics leadership

Data architecture

Metrics design

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Job description

Educate! in Sweden seeks an experienced analytics leader to transform the Performance Metrics function into an AI‑native team. You will sit on a cross‑functional senior leadership team and drive the predictive analytics strategy across product, implementation, and metrics groups.

In the first year, you will define strategy, operating model, and staffing for the AI‑native function, with 90% adoption of self‑serve analytics and a healthy analytics‑engineering layer on BigQuery.