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About the Role
The Guardian is seeking a Lead Product Data Analyst to drive insights, guide decisions, and foster a test-and-learn culture within the product & engineering department. This role is crucial for enhancing how the department understands user behavior through rigorous testing and measurement, translating data into actionable recommendations for decision-making at scale.
Responsibilities
- Maintain hands-on expertise in SQL and Python (or R) to build and query robust data models, specifically working with large datasets to support product development.
- Utilize BI tools like Tableau or Looker to monitor performance and apply statistical methods, including A/B testing and experimentation.
- Translate complex findings into well-structured narratives that make clear recommendations and aid decision-making at all levels within P&E.
- Deliver insights impactfully by tailoring messages for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and coach others to do the same.
- Efficiently balance a pipeline of work, keeping key stakeholders updated on progress, blockers, and key outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with UX research and other insights functions to build a culture of data-driven decision-making in P&E.
- Inform a year-long learning agenda, designing tests to support this, and advocate for building tracking into the product experience to align with broader organizational goals.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a data analyst, ideally gained in a product environment.
- Experience translating data into insights that support business decisions, applying statistics to strategic problems.
- Experience in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets, Python (or R) in a data context.
- Experience with Tableau, or another data visualization tool.
- Experience working with web analytics in a media or news organization is preferred but not required.
- Can demonstrate experience communicating insights clearly and engagingly; strong presentation skills.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Tableau
- Looker
- Data Visualization
- Statistical Methods
- A/B Testing
- Experimentation
- Web Analytics
Location
- Kings Cross
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Lead
Salary/Compensations
- £60,000 per annum
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave
- Generous pension scheme (5% employee contribution, 8-12% employer contribution)
- 2 volunteering days annually
- Option of payroll giving
- Season ticket loans
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Eye tests
- Optional dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support
- Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- The Guardian is a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
- The team consists of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
- The company is committed to making a difference and represents a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- The Guardian offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth, and fostering an inclusive culture.
- Became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people.
- We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future.
- We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
- All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
- Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.