Director, Product and Data Analytics

Talener; New York (NY); Remote; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Talener is seeking a Director, Product Analytics to lead user behavior research, conversion optimization, and data strategy across a broad portfolio of consumer-facing apps and publishing systems. You will partner with executive leadership to replace guesswork with empirical evidence and build performance models that balance scale with engagement.

The role demands 8+ years of analytics leadership, proven mentorship of data professionals in embedded product teams, and expertise in event-tracking,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product analytics or data science experience in embedded product teams.
• Experience guiding and mentoring data specialists.
• Expertise in event-tracking and schema standards.
• Ability to align analytics with business outcomes and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Guide data strategy across multi-tenant platforms and consumer apps.
• Build empirical roadmaps with performance models balancing scale and engagement.
• Partner with exec leadership to validate hypotheses and surface growth opportunities.
• Design performance trees linking churn and LTV to feature usage.

Skills

Data strategy

Mentoring

Embedded product teams

A/B testing

Event tracking

Schema design

Statistical validation

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

Our client is a large-scale SaaS and digital media enterprise that develops multi-tiered web and mobile platforms for millions of global active users. They are bringing on a Director, Product Analytics to drive user behavioral research, conversion optimization, and data strategy across a broad portfolio of consumer-facing applications, integrated tools, and publishing systems. Working as an embedded partner to executive leadership, you will replace speculative roadmap planning with empirical evidence, building performance models that balance operational scaling with user engagement.

Job Title: Director, Product Analytics

Salary: $225,000 – $250,000 base plus 20% on-target bonus

Location: 100% Remote (US)

Core Requirements & Responsibilities

• 8+ years of experience, including a background guiding, mentoring, and advancing data specialists within an embedded product team environment.
• Multi-Application Oversight: Demonstrated success managing product-focused data strategy across multi-tenant platforms, B2B2C products, or multi-sided digital ecosystems.
• Testing & Data Architecture: Proven history implementing controlled testing protocols, holdouts, and statistical validation methods while advising software teams on event-tracking and schema standards.
• Performance Metric Design: Background establishing comprehensive performance trees that connect top-line commercial outcomes (churn, onboarding conversion, lifetime value) to feature-level usage behaviors.
• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Ability to work alongside executive product directors, engineering leads, and user research teams to validate product hypotheses, audit feature performance, and surface organic growth opportunities hidden in user activity logs.