Sr. Director, Analytics, Yahoo Home & News

What You'll Lead

• A transformation in how we operate
• Own the strategic direction for how Yahoo Home & News uses data, establishing a clear point of view and roadmap that raises the ceiling on what analytics can do for the business.
• Build the models, frameworks, and habits that allow the business to move with both speed and conviction.
• Expand our data science and product analytics capabilities.
• Partner with Engineering to strengthen data infrastructure and ensure the team has the foundation to move fast and with confidence.
• A deeper partnership with the business
• Represent the analytics function as a thought partner to leaders across Product, Editorial, Engineering, Revenue, and Business Development.
• Identify where AI can fundamentally change how the analytics team plans, creates, and delivers work, and build toward it.
• Embed AI into how the team operates: automating routine reporting, using AI-assisted trend surfacing, and exploring natural language querying tools.
• A culture of insight and craft
• Raise the bar on how insights are packaged and delivered.
• Coach the team on data storytelling, visualization, and stakeholder management so that great analysis doesn't get lost in translation.
• A foundation of trust
• Establish the QA processes and infrastructure improvements that make "I trust this number" the default assumption across the organization.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years in analytics, data science, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role
• Product analytics background: you've worked on personalization, cohort analysis, retention modeling, and experimentation at a consumer tech or streaming company
• Operated at scale and know how to move a large, complex organization. Built something from the ground up, and can point to what specifically changed because of it
• Technical credibility across BI and data science; the ability to lead across all Analytics disciplines with authority
• Deep curiosity and a bias toward proactive insight generation: you pull threads, you notice what doesn't add up, and you follow it
• SQL fluency; familiarity with Python, R, or ML workflows is a meaningful advantage
• The communication range to move fluidly between a junior analyst, a cross-functional working group, and an executive audience
• Strong convictions, paired with genuine openness
• Experience in consumer tech, or a complex, multi-sided business is a must; as is an operator's mindset

Success Criteria

• By the end of year one, the analytics team is no longer defined by the questions it answers, but by the opportunities it uncovers.
• Stakeholders seek out analysts as thought partners.
• Data science is embedded in product decisions.
• Dashboards are trusted, self-service, and freeing analysts to do the work that actually moves the business.
• The team has a culture of learning, craft, and shared ownership over outcomes.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Adhere to Yahoo policies.
• Exercise sound judgment.
• Work effectively, safely and inclusively with others.
• Exhibit trustworthiness and meet expectations.
• Safeguard business operations and brand integrity.

Compensation

• The compensation for this position ranges from $159,140.00 - $346,075.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.
• The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

Application Information

• If you currently work for Yahoo, please apply on our internal career site.