Lead Analyst, Strategy & Growth

Responsibilities

• Own Blackbird’s growth measurement framework. Define the success metrics, guardrails, and targets for each major growth initiative, then measure performance, validate assumptions, and flag the gaps.
• Build and maintain the analytical layer behind the Cockpit, market scorecards, and growth ROI reporting that leadership and the Board rely on.
• Turn open-ended strategic questions about where to grow next and which investments are paying off into clear, defensible analysis and recommendations.
• Build the models that drive both sides of the marketplace: restaurant composite scoring, market and neighborhood targeting, customer and behavioral segmentation, and Fly Load and lifecycle value models.
• Identify which restaurants and customers create the most long-term value and which behaviors strengthen the marketplace flywheel across TPV, MPU, DPU, retention, and Fly Load growth.
• Stand up the experimentation framework that lets Growth learn quickly, with a high bar for statistical rigor and causal measurement.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Restaurants to instrument initiatives, define the data we need, and read out results.
• Build lightweight tooling and automation with Product and Engineering to speed up analysis and cut manual reporting.

Requirements

• 8+ years in analytics, data science, growth analytics, or a quantitative strategy role, ideally at a high-growth marketplace, fintech, payments, or consumer tech company.
• Expert SQL and a strong analytical toolkit in Python or R for modeling, segmentation, and experimentation, including the ability to write and optimize complex queries over large datasets.
• A track record of turning messy data into decisions that moved a core business metric, with the judgment to know which metric matters.
• Deep experience with experimentation and A/B testing, plus causal measurement methods such as incrementality and holdouts.
• Fluency in marketplace, growth, and unit-economics concepts such as TPV, retention, LTV, ROI, and cohort analysis.
• Experience with BI tools such as Amplitude, Looker, Mode, or Metabase.
• Clear communication with senior audiences, with the ability to take an analysis from the numbers to a recommendation leadership can act on.
• Comfort working with autonomy and ambiguity on a founding team.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building or owning a metrics layer or BI environment such as Metabase, Looker, or dbt.
• Background in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a strong growth or analytics team.
• Experience with incentive design, pricing, or paid-acquisition measurement.
• Experience in the restaurant or hospitality industry, or familiarity with crypto and token-based loyalty economics.

Compensation & Benefits

Target annual salary: $165,000 - $180,000 USD (does not include variable or equity). Full time offers may also include stock options, benefits (medical, dental, vision, flexible time off, 401(k)), and additional perks.