Director of Analytics

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Rover's Product Analytics team, including analysts and analytics managers, with a focus on judgment, technical depth, and business impact.
• Set the analytics agenda for the product organization and connect it to company priorities, marketplace health, customer experience, and long-term growth.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and executive leaders to identify high-value questions, frame tradeoffs, and shape roadmap and operating decisions.
• Establish metric frameworks for product and marketplace performance, including definitions, instrumentation expectations, reporting standards, and regular leadership readouts.
• Raise the bar for experimentation by guiding test design, statistical rigor, interpretation, and follow-through.
• Review analyses, write or read SQL as needed, pressure-test assumptions, and coach the team on analytic methods.
• Work with Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure to improve data quality, modeling, tooling, and self-service access.
• Build stronger analytics narratives, decision forums, and education for non-analytics partners.
• Hire, coach, and grow analysts and analytics managers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a closely related field, with significant experience supporting product, growth, marketplace, or consumer technology teams.
• 5+ years of experience leading analytics teams, including managing managers and developing senior individual contributors.
• Strong product and business judgment.
• Expert-level SQL and fluency with modern analytics stacks, including data warehouses, BI tools, product analytics platforms, and experimentation tools.
• Experience writing analysis code in Python, R, or a similar language.
• Deep understanding of experimentation, metric design, causal reasoning, and common analytical pitfalls.
• Experience improving event instrumentation, metric definitions, data quality, and analytics workflows.
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders and changing business or product direction through clear analysis and communication.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and raising technical standards for analysts and analytics managers.

Nice to have

• Marketplace, e-commerce, subscription, or scaled consumer product experience.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field.

Compensation and benefits

• First-year salary range in the greater Barcelona area: €96,623–€123,677, with a 15% bonus.
• Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout.
• Pension plan.
• Private medical insurance.
• 25 days PTO.
• Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan for transport and nursery.
• Gym membership.
• €450 adoption-related pet allowance.
• Annual €150 wellness reimbursement.
• Flexible work hours.
• Snacks, fresh fruit, team activities, events, and game nights.
• Dog-friendly office.