Director of Data & Analytics — Growth & Insights Leader

News Corp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Post is seeking an experienced Director of Data & Analytics to lead the Data Science & Analytics team in NYC. Reporting into the VP of Data Science & Analytics, this high-impact role shapes data-driven decisions to grow audience and improve commercial performance.

You will mentor a 3+ person analytics team, partner with Editorial, Commercial, Product, Marketing, and Data Engineering, and deliver rigorous analyses and data products to guide decision-making across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field preferred.
• 6-10+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, business intelligence, or a related discipline, preferably within media, entertainment, sports, digital publishing, advertising, or another fast-paced consumer business.
• Previous experience leading and developing a team of analysts, with the ability to balance people leadership with hands-on individual contribution; presenting insights to senior leadership and collaborating with newsroom on urgent questions.
• Strong track record of partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple functions and using data to influence business decisions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting both commercial/business and editorial or content-oriented stakeholders is strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience with BI and visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and experience working with Python and large, complex datasets.
• Proven ability to independently scope, execute, and communicate complex analytical projects from start to finish.
• Experience driving data and analytics initiatives within digital media, direct-to-consumer, marketing, advertising, sports, or other high-volume digital environments.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud data architectures, data warehouses, lakehouse environments, multi-cloud architectures, real-time data and data productization.
• Expertise in media measurement methodologies and technologies, including experimentation, attribution, and MMM.
• Strong understanding of campaign analytics, audience measurement, data extraction, media optimization, and performance reporting.
• Ability to translate complex technical or analytical concepts into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• Advanced understanding of media, audience, engagement, and commercial metrics and their application to business decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to identify meaningful patterns and insights within large datasets and communicate those findings effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with data scientists, engineers, newsroom editors, and commercial executives.
• Note: This position will be expected to adhere to our hybrid work model, requiring three (3) days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing analytics team, managing a team of 3+ Data/Business Analysts and mentoring, prioritizing, coaching, and professional development.
• Establish the strategy, priorities, and operating model for analytics across the organization, focusing on high-impact opportunities.
• Serve as a trusted data partner to senior stakeholders across Editorial and Commercial, translating business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
• Partner with newsroom leadership to develop insights that support audience growth, content strategy, engagement, performance, and decision-making.
• Analyze campaign performance, audience behavior, revenue opportunities, and media performance with Commercial, Advertising, Marketing, and other teams.
• Act as a hands-on analytics leader who can investigate complex questions, work with large datasets, build analyses, and deliver insights.
• Develop and maintain automated reporting, dashboards, and data products for timely visibility into key metrics.
• Champion a data-driven culture by explaining why things happen and what actions data supports.
• Lead development and integration of advanced analytics models to improve media performance and outcomes.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science to integrate data from marketing clean rooms and other sources.
• Improve data accessibility, quality, and usability and build scalable data products with Product, Technology, and Data teams.
• Partner with senior management to refine business and media strategies based on data-driven insights.
• Establish analytics best practices including measurement, experimentation, attribution, and media effectiveness.

Skills

Data leadership

Team management

SQL

Python

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

Data modeling

Stakeholder management

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

Job description

The New York Post is seeking an experienced Director of Data & Analytics to lead the Data Science & Analytics team in NYC. Reporting into the VP of Data Science & Analytics, this high-impact role shapes data-driven decisions to grow audience and improve commercial performance.

You will mentor a 3+ person analytics team, partner with Editorial, Commercial, Product, Marketing, and Data Engineering, and deliver rigorous analyses and data products to guide decision-making across the organization.