Lead Analyst, Strategy & Growth

About the role

The Lead Analyst is the analytical core of Blackbird's Strategy & Growth team. They own Blackbird’s growth measurement framework, defining success metrics, guardrails, and targets for each major growth initiative. They measure performance, validate assumptions, and identify gaps. They build and maintain the analytical layer behind the Cockpit, market scorecards, and growth ROI reporting, ensuring leadership and the Board rely on accurate and defensible insights. They turn strategic questions into clear, actionable analysis and recommendations, focusing on marketplace models, customer behavior, and long-term value creation. They partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Restaurants to instrument initiatives, define necessary data, and interpret results. They build lightweight tooling and automation with Product and Engineering to speed up analysis and reduce manual reporting.

Requirements

• 8+ years in analytics, data science, growth analytics, or a quantitative strategy role, ideally at a high-growth marketplace, fintech, payments, or consumer tech company.
• Expert SQL and a strong analytical toolkit in Python or R for modeling, segmentation, and experimentation, including the ability to write and optimize complex queries over large datasets.
• A track record of turning messy data into decisions that moved a core business metric, with the judgment to know which metric matters.
• Deep experience with experimentation and A/B testing, plus causal measurement methods such as incrementality and holdouts.
• Fluency in marketplace, growth, and unit-economics concepts such as TPV, retention, LTV, ROI, and cohort analysis.
• Experience with BI tools such as Amplitude, Looker, Mode, or Metabase.
• Clear communication with senior audiences, with the ability to take an analysis from the numbers to a recommendation leadership can act on.
• Comfort working with autonomy and ambiguity on a founding team.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building or owning a metrics layer or BI environment such as Metabase, Looker, or dbt.
• Background in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a strong growth or analytics team.
• Experience with incentive design, pricing, or paid-acquisition measurement.
• Experience in the restaurant or hospitality industry, or familiarity with crypto and token-based loyalty economics.