Senior Manager, Customer Intelligence
About the role
Roku is seeking a Senior Manager, Customer Intelligence to lead a high-impact technical team and serve as a strategic intelligence partner to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. This role is business-forward and goes beyond traditional analytics leadership — it sits at the intersection of technical depth and strategic activation.
Responsibilities
Defining and leading the Customer Intelligence measurement agenda, including customer segmentation frameworks, causal impact analyses, retention analytics, and activation reporting
Scoping ambiguous business questions, translating them into analytical problems, and owning the output end-to-end
Setting and upholding a high standard for analytical storytelling, ensuring all deliverables — presentations, briefings, scorecards — are decision-ready for senior and executive audiences
Leading and developing a small team of analytical talent that partners with dedicated engineering and data science support and collaborates with Roku's broader core analytics organization
Producing methodologies and building reusable datasets, segmentation schemas, and analytical frameworks — including SQL/Python-based workflows and Airflow pipelines — that the broader analytics organization can leverage
Facilitating analytical conversations that connect data to business decisions across product, marketing, finance, and strategy
Actively using AI tools such as LLM-based assistants to accelerate team output across analysis, narrative generation, and workflow automation
Serving as an active, collaborative partner to the broader analytics organization, aligning on shared methodology and ensuring your team's work extends organizational capability
Requirements
8–12 years of experience in analytically-grounded roles, with at least 3 years leading teams or functions, ideally within consumer technology, streaming, subscription, or a data-intensive business
A strong technical foundation with experience in analytical and data science environments, including proficiency in SQL and working knowledge of Python
Demonstrated experience driving business impact through insights — influencing decisions, shaping strategy, and changing outcomes at a senior level
Exceptional ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, structured narratives for executive and cross-functional audiences
Familiarity with Airflow, GitLab, or similar pipeline infrastructure, with comfort digging into technical work independently
Direct experience with or strong intuition for causal inference methods such as difference-in-differences, propensity matching, and synthetic controls
Experience with Tableau, Looker, or similar visualization tools, with a high bar for what dashboards and scorecards should communicate
A genuine, practiced orientation toward AI tools as force multipliers — with demonstrated use in day-to-day work
A track record of growing and developing analytical talent with a strong sense of responsibility toward team development
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Statistics, Business, Computer Science, or a related field
Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Experience with AI and machine learning tools
Benefits
Health insurance
Equity awards
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Parental leave
Wellness benefits
Paid time off