Growth Analytics Lead, Strategy & Growth

blackbird-labs-inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Benefits including medical, dental, &

Flexible time off

401(k)

Job summary

Blackbird Labs is building a small, high-leverage Strategy & Growth team, and the Lead Analyst is its analytical core. The function decides where Blackbird should grow, how it should grow, and where it should invest growth resources.

The Lead Analyst owns how those decisions get measured: the metrics, the models, and the experiments that show whether a growth initiative is working and what to change. You will report to the Head of Strategy & Growth and work alongside a Strategy & Operations

Qualifications

• 8+ years in analytics, data science, growth analytics, or a quantitative strategy role.
• Expert SQL and Python or R for modeling, segmentation, and experimentation.
• Track record turning messy data into decisions that move core metrics.
• Deep experience with experimentation and causal measurement (incrementality/holdouts).
• Fluency in marketplace, growth, and unit-economics concepts (TPV, retention, LTV, ROI, cohort analysis).
• Experience with BI tools such as Amplitude, Looker, Mode, or Metabase.
• Clear communication with senior audiences; able to turn analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Comfort working autonomously on a founding team.

Responsibilities

• Own growth measurement framework: define success metrics, guardrails, and targets; measure performance and flag gaps.
• Build and maintain analytical layer behind Cockpit, market scorecards, and growth ROI reporting.
• Turn strategic questions about where to grow into defensible analysis and recommendations.
• Build models for marketplace dynamics: restaurant scoring, market targeting, segmentation, and lifecycle value models.
• Identify which restaurants and customers create long-term value and drive Fly Wheel metrics.
• Stand up an experimentation framework with high statistical rigor and causal measurement.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Restaurants to instrument initiatives and read out results.
• Build tooling and automation to speed up analysis and reporting.

Skills

Analytics

SQL

Python/R

A/B testing

Experimentation

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

Amplitude

Looker

Mode

Metabase

Job description

Blackbird Labs is building a small, high-leverage Strategy & Growth team, and the Lead Analyst is its analytical core. The function decides where Blackbird should grow, how it should grow, and where it should invest growth resources.

The Lead Analyst owns how those decisions get measured: the metrics, the models, and the experiments that show whether a growth initiative is working and what to change. You will report to the Head of Strategy & Growth and work alongside a Strategy & Operations