Associate Director, Analytics Consulting (Retail/CPG)

Tiger Analytics Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is a trusted analytics partner helping Fortune 100 clients turn data into business value. We seek a business-first, analytically strong consultant who works directly with business leaders to translate complex decisions into data- and AI-enabled solutions.

This role requires deep experience in business analytics, problem structuring, and rapid prototyping of AI-enabled insights, with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in business analytics or strategy/management consulting.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Strong analytical orientation and comfort with data.
• Ability to move from business question → hypothesis → analysis → insight → decision/action.
• Willingness to learn emerging AI technologies and apply them to business problems.

Responsibilities

• Understand objectives, economics, processes and the decisions to be made; avoid merely documenting requirements.
• Challenge assumptions and structure problems into clear hypotheses and analyses.
• Explore data to develop insights and translate findings into actions.
• Prototype solutions quickly using GenAI, Agentic AI, analytics and low/no-code tools.
• Orchestrate diverse teams and experts to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Communicate findings in business language and drive measurable impact.
• Continuously learn and apply new AI capabilities to improve decisions.

Skills

Strong business curiosity

Experience with stakeholders

Analytical problem solving

Executive communication

Translate business needs into data/AI

Tools

Excel

SQL

BI/Visualization tools

Python

GenAI/AI agents

Job description

Tiger Analytics is an advanced analytics consulting firm. We are the trusted analytics partner for several Fortune 100 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our consultants bring deep expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI. Our business value and leadership has been recognized by various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner.

We are looking for a business-first, analytically strong consultant who can work directly with business leaders to understand complex decisions, challenge conventional thinking, and rapidly translate business needs into data- and AI-enabled solutions.

This is not a traditional requirements-gathering role. The consultant will be expected to understand how the business operates, identify the decisions that matter, determine what information and analysis are needed, and rapidly mobilize AI/Agentic tools, data and specialist teams to solve the problem.

The ideal candidate has operated in an environment where they have regularly used data and analysis to support business decisions and is excited about learning and applying emerging AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business and the decision: Engage business stakeholders to understand objectives, economics, processes, constraints and the decisions they are trying to make—not simply document stated requirements.

• Challenge and structure problems: Ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and convert ambiguous business issues into clear hypotheses, analyses and decision frameworks.
• Use data to develop insights: Explore and interpret data, conduct rapid analyses, identify patterns and translate findings into business implications and recommendations.
• Rapidly prototype solutions: Use GenAI, Agentic AI, analytics and low-code/no-code tools to rapidly explore ideas, analyze information and develop working prototypes.
• Orchestrate expertise: Recognize when deeper expertise is required and effectively leverage data scientists, engineers, domain experts, product teams and AI agents rather than attempting to build everything independently.
• Drive from insight to action: Communicate findings in simple business language, recommend actions and work with stakeholders to translate recommendations into measurable business outcomes.

• Continuously learn: Rapidly experiment with emerging AI and technology capabilities and identify where they can materially improve business decision-making.

10+ years of experience in business analytics, strategy/management consulting, commercial analytics, operations, supply chain, finance, marketing/customer analytics, product management or a similar decision-oriented business environment.

The person should demonstrate:

• Strong business curiosity and problem-solving ability.

• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Prior experience working in Retail/CPG Industry strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical orientation and comfort working hands-on with data.
• Ability to move from business question → hypothesis → analysis → insight → decision/action.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively rather than simply accepting requirements.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and solving loosely defined problems.
• Strong written, verbal and executive communication skills.
• Working familiarity with analytical tools such as Excel, SQL, BI/visualization tools and/or Python.
• Strong interest and hands-on aptitude with GenAI, AI agents and emerging productivity/development tools.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly without needing to be a deep software engineer.
• Ability to bring together business, analytics, technology and specialist teams to deliver solutions rapidly.

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.