Sr. Director, Data & Analytics

Salary Competitive

At Yousician, our job is to reimagine music education, so everyone can play. We’ve built an amazing team of creative, passionate, and independent people, all working together to help millions of musicians learn, play, reach their goals, and have fun. If this sounds like the right mission for you, you’re in the right place!


WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY

This is the opportunity to be the hands-on leader for our growing data team at Yousician. You will develop the vision for how Yousician will strategically use data as the company scales. As a consumer application company with 16 million users, we process massive amounts of data. We have the biggest and most exhaustive data set on music learning available today. You, along with the rest of the data science team, will have the unique opportunity to analyze this data and formulate insights to improve our music learning platform. Working with stakeholders from our engineering, product, growth, and services teams, you will have a large impact and exposure across Yousician.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own analytics, insights and A/B testing across the organization.
  • Lead, inspire and grow a high-performing team of data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers.
  • Work with leadership and cross-functional teams to identify meaningful KPIs and build reporting to keep the company up to date on progress; partner on ad hoc reports as needed.
  • Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to develop impactful and actionable product, marketing/growth, user and business insights.
  • Lead analytical deep-dives to identify problems, opportunities, and actions.
  • Define a technical stack that will ensure maximum productivity for the entirety of our data function.
  • Drive the necessary tools, processes, and training to democratize data for cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Benchmark and standardize the way we run experiments.
  • Collaborate with product and marketing/growth teams to build predictive models that turn our data into a competitive advantage.


WHO YOU ARE

  • Demonstrated success in analytics/data science with experience leading analytics/data science teams.
  • Strong quantitative background obtained through a degree in a related field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics)
  • Successful track record of building and developing a high-performing teams.
  • Deep understanding of A/B testing and experimentation; experience with designing, analyzing A/B tests, and driving a test-driven culture across product, marketing/growth and operational teams.
  • Expert level knowledge of SQL combined with an understanding of big data and real-time processing systems and tools (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Kafka, Storm etc.).
  • Expertise in BI tools such as Tableau, Redash, Looker.
  • Exposure to scripting languages and statistical packages (e.g. Python and R).
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to multitask, work under pressure, meet deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced environment.


WHAT WE OFFER

  • You'll have a meaningful and profound impact on the lives of millions of musicians and future musicians all around the world.
  • You'll get a competitive compensation package - salary, stock options, crazy perks - and work in an awesome new office in the heart of Helsinki.
  • We have lots of perks and quirks: daily push-up sessions, bonus for sport activities, jam sessions (with more instruments than you can shake a drumstick at!), board game tournaments and sauna evenings, and our famous Greece, Thailand, Tenerife and Bali work-retreats.


Apply to this position from here:  https://boards.greenhouse.io/yousician/jobs/4286149002

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Equity package
Equity package

Want to be a partner? Look no further.

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Working at
Yousician (FI)

Making musicality as common as literacy. Yousician is the largest and fastest growing music education company in the world. Yousician is a revolutionary music platform for anyone to learn, play, create and teach music. Millions of people around the world use Yousician to advance their music skills and play the music they love.  At Yousician, you’ll help shape the future of music education and profoundly impact the lives of millions of people. We are a profitable, fast-growing company, and we are just getting started. As a Yousician team member, you’ll work on the cutting edge of technology, business and education with great career opportunities ahead. You’ll work alongside some of the best people in your field in small, efficient and empowered teams. We create an environment and support people in their professional growth. We work hard and jam hard!

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