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Principal Business Intelligence Analyst

137k – 215kWaltham, MAOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Own ZoomInfo's PLG measurement framework, defining KPIs and leading analytics that shape product investments and growth strategy. Requires 8+ years in product/growth analytics with advanced SQL and Python.

About the role

Product Growth Measurement & Operating System

  • Define and own the measurement framework for ZoomInfo’s PLG motion, including acquisition, activation, engagement, monetization, retention, and expansion.
  • Establish the company’s source of truth for PLG performance, including KPI definitions, scorecards, executive reporting, and performance benchmarks.
  • Define leading indicators that predict customer activation, product adoption, conversion, retention, and expansion outcomes.
  • Ensure measurement consistency across products, teams, and business units, enabling a unified view of customer growth and product performance.
  • Develop scalable frameworks that connect customer behavior to business outcomes and investment decisions.

Customer Journey Analytics & Growth Diagnostics

  • Own analytical understanding of the end-to-end customer journey, from acquisition and onboarding through monetization and long-term retention.
  • Identify behavioral patterns, friction points, and conversion barriers that impact activation, adoption, retention, and expansion.
  • Develop customer segmentation frameworks that reveal differences in growth outcomes across personas, customer segments, and product experiences.
  • Lead investigations into significant changes in PLG performance, diagnosing root causes and quantifying business impact.
  • Identify the behaviors and product experiences most strongly associated with successful customer outcomes and long-term value creation.

Product Strategy & Growth Insights

  • Influence product investment and roadmap decisions by quantifying opportunity size, identifying high-leverage growth opportunities, and evaluating tradeoffs across competing initiatives.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to Product, Growth, and GTM leadership on customer behavior trends, adoption patterns, and monetization opportunities.
  • Build analytical frameworks that help teams prioritize investments across onboarding, activation, engagement, monetization, retention, and expansion.
  • Define measurement strategies for major product initiatives and ensure business impact is accurately assessed.
  • Guide experimentation efforts across the PLG funnel, helping teams prioritize, evaluate, and scale growth opportunities.
  • Deliver executive-level insights that inform product strategy, growth planning, and resource allocation.

AI-Native Analytics & Operational Excellence

  • Redesign analytics workflows around AI-first operating principles rather than traditional manual processes.
  • Build automated systems that continuously monitor product performance, surface anomalies, and identify growth opportunities at scale.
  • Develop AI-assisted investigation workflows that accelerate root-cause analysis and reduce time-to-insight.
  • Establish scalable reporting and monitoring infrastructure that minimizes manual effort while maintaining analytical rigor.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging AI capabilities and incorporate them into the analytics operating model.
  • Improve self-service analytics capabilities while maintaining governance, consistency, and trust in data.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Act as a trusted strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership.
  • Align teams around a shared understanding of PLG performance, customer behavior, and growth priorities.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives from opportunity identification through execution, measurement, and business impact assessment.
  • Elevate analytical standards and foster a culture of data-informed decision making across the organization.

What You Bring

  • 8+ years of experience in Product Analytics, Growth Analytics, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Customer Analytics, Strategy, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently lead large-scale analytical initiatives with measurable business impact.
  • Advanced SQL, Python skills and strong analytical foundations.
  • Experience conducting deep-dive analyses into customer behavior, product performance, and business outcomes.
  • Strong statistical and experimentation knowledge.
  • Experience translating complex data into actionable business recommendations.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions through data.
  • Strong project management and prioritization skills.
  • Experience building scalable reporting, monitoring, and operational processes.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting Product-Led Growth or self-service SaaS organizations.
  • Experience with SaaS business models and customer lifecycle analytics.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to improve analytical workflows and operational efficiency.
Skills
SQLPythonProduct AnalyticsGrowth AnalyticsData ScienceBusiness IntelligenceCustomer AnalyticsStatistical AnalysisExperimentationPLG Measurement
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