Lead Data Analyst

Thrive Global; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thrive Time

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Thrive Global is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to drive data-driven decision-making across product and customers. Define metrics like adoption, engagement, retention, and customer health, and translate them into insights shaping product strategy and demonstrating Thrive’s impact.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers from discovery to delivery, working with customer success and sales to ensure customers have data to understand effectiveness and build health strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
• 5+ years of experience as a product or customer analyst, ideally at a fast-paced startup or health-tech environment.
• Clear demonstration of ownership in customer-facing and stakeholder management experience.
• Ability to translate complex datasets into simple, actionable insights, for nontechnical audiences.
• Initiate and tackle projects that drive long‑term improvements and data governance.
• Significant hands‑on experience using and applying SQL, ideally with dbt transformations.
• Experience with Python or R for data analysis, including statistical work.
• Experience with modern data stack tooling (Databricks, dbt, Looker).
• Experience building automated systems to meet recurring data needs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify, create, and own ways to automate, scale, and improve data processes.
• Serve as a data subject‑matter expert for Thrive’s internal teams and represent data interests.
• Pursue projects that deepen understanding of employee health and wellbeing spaces and customer interests.
• Own measurement for new product initiatives end-to-end from success metrics to analysis.
• Partner with customer success and sales to tell Thrive's impact for QBRs and executive reviews.
• Collaborate with analysts to meet stakeholder data needs.
• Mentor and coach analysts to raise the team’s technical bar.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Ownership

Data analysis

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL

dbt

Python

Looker

Databricks

Job description

Founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016, Thrive Global is a leading behavior change technology company with the mission to improve productivity and health outcomes – one Microstep at a time. Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well‑being, performance and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps – small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity – have been adopted by employees at more than 230 organizations in over 160 countries, from frontline and call center workers to executives at multinational companies. For more information, visit www.thriveglobal.com.

As a Lead Data Analyst, you will drive data-driven decision-making across both our product and our customers. You will define and track the metrics that matter, like product adoption, engagement, retention, and customer health, and translate them into insights that both shape product strategy and demonstrate the impact of the Thrive platform.

You’ll move fluidly across the business: partnering with product managers, designers, and engineers from discovery through delivery, and working alongside customer success and sales to make sure our customers have the data they need to understand our product’s effectiveness and build data-informed health and wellbeing strategies.

This role calls for a blend of strong analytical skills, stakeholder management, and an eye for improving and scaling processes. You’ll work autonomously, own your areas end to end, and be central to the strategic success of both our product and our customer relationships.

How You’ll Contribute

• Identify, create, and own ways to automate, scale, and improve data processes.
• Serve as a data subject‑matter expert for Thrive’s internal teams and represent data interests to the broader Thrive team.
• Pursue projects that deepen our understanding of the employee health and wellbeing spaces and customer interests, with a focus on ways to improve the user journey, our products, and our data offering to customers.
• Own measurement for new product initiatives E2E to support product strategy: from defining success metrics and instrumentation to analyzing adoption, engagement, and retention.
• Partner with customer success and sales to tell the story of Thrive's impact, building the analyses and narratives that power QBRs and executive reviews.
• Collaborate with other analysts to develop a holistic approach to meeting stakeholder data needs, both day‑to‑day and as part of our long‑term strategy.
• Mentor and coach analysts, raising the team's technical bar.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
• 5+ years of experience as a product or customer analyst, ideally at a fast-paced startup or health-tech environment.
• Clear demonstration of ownership in customer-facing and stakeholder management experience, such as in a consulting or B2B SaaS business.
• Ability to translate complex datasets into simple, actionable insights, in a format accessible to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to initiate and tackle projects that don’t just solve for the short-term need, but long‑term improvements (e.g., drive better data governance, create assets that simplify complicated requests, establish more effective ways of working with stakeholders).
• Significant hands‑on experience using and applying SQL, ideally with experience applying SQL transformations via dbt.
• Experience working with Python or R for data analysis, including statistical work.
• Experience with modern data stack tooling (our stack includes Databricks, dbt, and Looker).
• Experience using, maintaining, and/or building automated systems and processes to meet consistent, recurring data needs preferred.

Who You Are

• Someone self‑directed who brings order and structure to ambiguity.
• Someone who translates complex data into clear, actionable insights for any audience, whether presenting to executives and customers or partnering with engineers, and meets people wherever they are in their comfort with data.
• Someone who sees challenges as opportunities to build better processes, systems, and approaches.
• Someone who collaborates with other analysts and raises the team’s impact, not just their own.
• Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s truly making a difference in people’s lives around the world.
• Career Growth: Develop within the company and help shape our growth strategy.
• Human-Centric Culture: Thrive in a supportive environment with a range of wellness perks and benefits.
• Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding total compensation package.
• Health & Financial Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus a 401(k) program with company match.
• Time to Recharge: Generous paid time‑off programs designed to help you rest, reset, and recharge — including Thrive Time, a benefit unique to Thrive that gives employees additional paid time off after major projects or intense periods of work to truly recharge and recover.

Compensation

Base compensation for this role will likely fall in the$145,000-$175,000range.

• We provide a competitive mix of salary, performance bonus, and equity. The final offer amount will depend on factors like experience, expertise, and may differ from the range above. This range also excludes additional benefits, such as 401(k), and medical, dental, or vision insurance.

Thrive is deeply committed to creating a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment so that all employees can bring their whole selves to work.

Thrive is proud to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Thrive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please inform Thrive’s Recruiting team if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.