The ideal candidate is a player-coach – able to think critically and solve problems while also being able to serve as a thought leader within the broader Support organization to drive our business forward.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented Data Analysts
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• Provide continuous feedback, address performance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Business Operations and other cross-functional stakeholders to achieve business goals
• Develop frameworks and scalable processes to drive decision-making and prioritization
• Define the metrics used to measure the success of strategic initiatives and health of our support platform; build dashboards to track metrics over time
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver data-driven insights and actionable recommendations for continuously improving the customer support experience
• Monitor and diagnose KPI performance and present findings to senior leadership

Experience

• Degree in a quantitative field like statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering. Advanced degrees are preferred
• 2+ years of leading a team of analysts or data scientists
• 6+ years of hands-on technical experience in a data science role or equivalent analytical role in a high growth startup
• Ability to translate unstructured business problems into clearly defined requirements with minimal oversight
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to transition between detailed data and high-level business problems
• Exceptional communication (listening, written, and oral) skills with the ability to present findings & recommendations targeted to the audience in question
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and trust across functions and work collaboratively
• Proficiency in SQL and Python with ability to independently break down large datasets and synthesize inputs from multiple sources
• MBA a plus

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink – Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program