Senior Analytics Strategy Lead - AI & Business Decisions

Socket.dev; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics, a leading analytics consulting firm, seeks a business-first consultant who translates complex business needs into AI-enabled solutions. The role engages with executives to transform data into strategic decisions, leveraging GenAI, AI agents and analytics to rapidly prototype and implement outcomes.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in analytics or strategy consulting, strong communication, and comfort partnering with senior leaders, especially in Retail/CPG contexts.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business analytics, strategy/management consulting, commercial analytics, operations, supply chain, finance, marketing/customer analytics, product management or a similar decision-oriented business environment.
• Strong business curiosity and problem-solving ability.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Prior experience working in Retail/CPG Industry strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical orientation and comfort working hands-on with data.
• Ability to move from business question → hypothesis → analysis → insight → decision/action.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively rather than simply accepting requirements.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and solving loosely defined problems.
• Strong written, verbal and executive communication skills.
• Working familiarity with analytical tools such as Excel, SQL, BI/visualization tools and/or Python.
• Strong interest and hands-on aptitude with GenAI, AI agents and emerging productivity/development tools.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly without needing to be a deep software engineer.
• Ability to bring together business, analytics, technology and specialist teams to deliver solutions rapidly.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business and the decision: Engage business stakeholders to understand objectives, economics, processes, constraints and the decisions they are trying to make—not simply document stated requirements.
• Challenge and structure problems: Ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and convert ambiguous business issues into clear hypotheses, analyses and decision frameworks.
• Use data to develop insights: Explore and interpret data, conduct rapid analyses, identify patterns and translate findings into business implications and recommendations.
• Rapidly prototype solutions: Use GenAI, Agentic AI, analytics and low-code/no-code tools to rapidly explore ideas, analyze information and develop working prototypes.
• Orchestrate expertise: Recognize when deeper expertise is required and effectively leverage data scientists, engineers, domain experts, product teams and AI agents rather than attempting to build everything independently.
• Drive from insight to action: Communicate findings in simple business language, recommend actions and work with stakeholders to translate recommendations into measurable business outcomes.
• Continuously learn: Rapidly experiment with emerging AI and technology capabilities and identify where they can materially improve business decision-making.

Job description

Tiger Analytics, a leading analytics consulting firm, seeks a business-first consultant who translates complex business needs into AI-enabled solutions. The role engages with executives to transform data into strategic decisions, leveraging GenAI, AI agents and analytics to rapidly prototype and implement outcomes.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in analytics or strategy consulting, strong communication, and comfort partnering with senior leaders, especially in Retail/CPG contexts.