Promotions Analytics Lead - Hybrid Boston, Friday Remote

Wayfair; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair is seeking an Analytics Manager to lead the Promotions analytics team in Boston. The role focuses on shaping the analytics roadmap, partnering with senior leaders, and delivering scalable data solutions that inform promotional decisions.

You will mentor analysts, collaborate with Data Engineering, BI, Product, and other teams, and communicate insights to senior stakeholders. This hybrid role combines on-site and remote work to balance collaboration with focused analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in analytics, statistics, economics, mathematics, business, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, data science, or a related quantitative role.
• Experience leading analytics work through a team, including coaching or managing analysts, setting priorities, and developing others’ capabilities.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets in a cloud data warehouse; Google BigQuery or a comparable platform is a plus.
• Experience developing or guiding data visualizations, reporting, and data solutions using tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Demonstrated ability to influence business decisions through clear written and verbal communication, including presentations to senior leaders.
• Experience partnering with engineering or other technical teams to scope, build, validate, and maintain data solutions.
• Strong business acumen, quantitative judgment, and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to make sound recommendations amid ambiguity and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics roadmap for Promotions, aligning team priorities, measures of success, and delivery plans to business goals and promotional priorities.
• Partner with Promotions leaders and senior business decision makers to frame ambiguous questions, evaluate options, quantify impact and tradeoffs, and recommend actions.
• Lead analysis of promotional programs and campaigns, using performance data and experimentation to identify what is working, diagnose drivers, and shape future assortment, offers, merchandising, and marketing decisions.
• Communicate clear, concise, actionable findings to senior leadership and partners across merchandising, marketing, operations, and other teams, adapting the narrative to different levels of technical expertise.
• Lead, coach, and develop analysts by setting priorities, delegating meaningful ownership, providing feedback, and building the team’s ability to deliver high-quality work independently.
• Partner end to end with Data Engineering, BI, Product, and other technical teams: translate business needs into data requirements, metric definitions, data contracts, and acceptance criteria, then help drive build, validation, and adoption.
• Build, prototype, or guide scalable data solutions, including datasets, dashboards, reporting, and automated workflows that reduce manual effort and support timely business decisions.
• Apply technical judgment and, as needed, hand‑on analysis to validate data and logic, investigate data‑quality issues, and ensure solutions are accurate, reliable, and fit for their intended use.
• Develop self‑serve tools, documentation, and processes that help business partners use data effectively and reduce recurring ad hoc work.

Skills

Leadership

SQL

Data storytelling

Big data handling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in analytics, statistics, economics, mathematics, business, or related quantitative field

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

BigQuery

Job description

Wayfair is seeking an Analytics Manager to lead the Promotions analytics team in Boston. The role focuses on shaping the analytics roadmap, partnering with senior leaders, and delivering scalable data solutions that inform promotional decisions.

You will mentor analysts, collaborate with Data Engineering, BI, Product, and other teams, and communicate insights to senior stakeholders. This hybrid role combines on-site and remote work to balance collaboration with focused analysis.