Manager / Senior Manager, Principal Data Analytics

Socket.dev; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is seeking a Principal Data Analytics to lead advanced analytical and machine learning solutions across Sales, Vendor Management, Cloud, eCommerce, Finance, and Supply Chain. This role blends hands‑on modeling with strategic business partnering.

You will build predictive models, guide cross‑functional teams, and translate insights into actionable recommendations using SQL, Python, and GCP tools, delivering measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (master's preferred) in a quantitative field.
• 8+ years of functional experience, including a minimum of 5+ years of position‑specific experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with GCP (BigQuery; Vertex AI a plus).
• Proficiency in visualization tools such as Google Looker, Qlik, PowerBI, Plotly Dash.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and related statistical/modeling libraries).
• Innovative thinking with the ability to challenge entrenched assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and quickly adapt in fast‑changing environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decisions.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to build compelling executive‑ready materials and clearly communicate complex analytical insights to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Break down highly complex, ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, proposing innovative and technically sound solutions.
• Drive solution discovery with stakeholders by clarifying requirements, defining analytical feasibility, and shaping technical roadmaps for high-impact initiatives.
• Act as a self-starter who independently scopes, leads, and delivers analytical workstreams with minimal guidance, while ensuring timely, high-quality outputs.
• Deliver insights for revenue growth, customer patterns, and operational efficiencies; translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders and business leaders.
• Build, optimize, and deploy predictive and machine learning models.
• Lead analytics workstreams and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Apply strong financial and analytical judgment to rapidly identify opportunities and act decisively, even when information is incomplete.

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 Principal Data Analytics will play a critical role in developing advanced analytical and machine learning solutions that support strategic initiatives across Sales, Vendor Management, Cloud, eCommerce, Finance, and Supply Chain. This role combines hands‑on modeling, deep analytical thinking, and strong business partnership.

Responsibilities

• Break down highly complex, ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, proposing innovative and technically sound solutions.

• Drive solution discovery with stakeholders by clarifying requirements, defining analytical feasibility, and shaping technical roadmaps for high-impact initiatives.
• Act as a self-starter who independently scopes, leads, and delivers analytical workstreams with minimal guidance, while ensuring timely, high-quality outputs.
• Deliver insights for revenue growth, customer patterns, and operational efficiencies; translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders and business leaders.
• Build, optimize, and deploy predictive and machine learning models.
• Lead analytics workstreams and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Apply strong financial and analytical judgment to rapidly identify opportunities and act decisively, even when information is incomplete.

• Bachelor's degree (master's preferred) in a quantitative field.
• 8+ years of functional experience, including a minimum of 5+ years of position‑specific experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with GCP (BigQuery; Vertex AI a plus).
• Proficiency in visualization tools such as Google Looker, Qlik, PowerBI, Plotly Dash.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and related statistical/modeling libraries).
• Innovative thinking with the ability to challenge entrenched assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and quickly adapt in fast‑changing environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decisions.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to build compelling executive‑ready materials and clearly communicate complex analytical insights to diverse audiences.

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.