Product Analytics Lead

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office and will require you to be in office Tuesdays and Thursdays.

As a Product Analytics Lead at Grindr, you will be working closely with product managers, product designers, and engineers to devise insightful metrics, design experiments, apply your statistical expertise to guide key decisions, and build visualizations. You will have the opportunity to work on models that are deployed to production and improve quality of life for our millions of users. You will also be an informal ambassador for the Data Science team to the rest of the organization, educating a diverse group on the many unintuitive aspects of data science.

You will be a member of the data organization at Grindr, which integrates data scientists, analysts, and engineers into a single cohesive and collaborative team. This is a rare opportunity to learn, teach, and have an outsized impact alongside some of the top minds in the field.

What’s the job?

• Extract actionable insights from broad, open-ended questions
• Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes
• Analyze data from across the product to uncover the root causes of metric movements
• Communicate results to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions
• Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, improving productivity across the company
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members + identify and recommend best practices
• Devise ML solutions to improve recommendations, detect spam, and better serve our users
• Apply an engineering mindset: minimize complexity while maximizing utility & maintainability

What we’ll love about you

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of industry data science experience
• Experience effectively communicating & collaborating with non-technical stakeholders
• A deep understanding of the “why” behind your work, not just the how
• Strong Python skills in data analysis using pandas and Jupyter Notebook
• Experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries on large data sets
• A strong background in inferential statistics, especially in an experimentation setting (hypothesis testing, power analysis, experimental design)
• Experience in big data technologies like Spark

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

What you'll love about us

• Mission and Impact: Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
• Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
• Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
• Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
• Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.

About Grindr

With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.

Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.

Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.

Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer

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