# Director of Analytics

**Company:** [Rover](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rover)
**Location:** Barcelona, Spain
**Role:** Data Analytics
**Salary:** €97k – €124k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, R, Data Warehouses, BI Tools, Product Analytics, Experimentation, Causal Reasoning, Metric Design, Event Instrumentation, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Analytics Workflows, Statistical Analysis, Marketplace Analytics
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Leads Rover’s Product Analytics organization, shaping product and marketplace decisions through experimentation, metrics, and rigorous analysis. Requires 10+ years in analytics or data science, 5+ years leading teams, expert SQL, and strong stakeholder influence.

## Job Description

## 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.

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