Commercial Senior Director, Performance & Insights, Prediction Markets

FanDuel • New York, NY

32d • $186,000 - $233,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

THE POSITION
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The Senior Director, Performance and Analytics – FanDuel Predicts is responsible for building and leading the analytics function that underpins decision-making, performance management, and execution across Commercial, Product, and Marketing for FanDuel Predicts. This leader will establish a single source of truth for Predicts, define the metrics that matter, and ensure insights translate into action across the business.
Reporting to the VP, Commercial & Strategy, the Senior Director will own Predicts’ performance management system — including KPI frameworks, forecasting support, dashboards, and leadership reporting. This role blends deep analytical rigor with strong business judgment, ensuring Predicts operates with clarity, accountability, and speed as it scales.
This person will partner closely with Product, Marketing, Partnerships & Commercial Ops, Finance, and central FanDuel Analytics to ensure Predicts’ strategy, execution, and customer experience are informed by high-quality data and insight.
In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading an analytics, insights, or strategy function or equivalent experience from a top-tier management consulting firm, with demonstrated ownership of complex, data-driven business problems and senior executive decision-making.
• Proven track record of using analytics to drive business performance and product decisions, not just reporting.
• Experience defining KPI frameworks, dashboards, and performance cadences for senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of customer behavior, funnels, retention, and monetization in consumer or marketplace products.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including forecasting, cohort analysis, experimentation, and performance modeling.
• Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Operations, and Finance.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and help teams make confident decisions with imperfect data.
• Experience building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing analytics teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting insights to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the “why” of FanDuel Predicts, being the single source of truth across the business. Defining not only what success looks like but how, when and why we measure it. This role is a leadership based role and not a reporting or BI-only role.
• Build and lead the Predicts Analytics function, covering commercial performance, product usage and experience, and marketing effectiveness.
• Define and own Predicts’ KPI framework, ensuring consistent metric definitions, targets, and ownership across Commercial, Product, Marketing, and Operations.
• Build and develop a high-performing analytics team, setting a culture of rigor, curiosity, and strong business partnership.
• Own Predicts’ performance narrative for senior leadership, shaping how results, risks, and trade-offs are presented to the SVP, FanDuel ELT, Flutter Ventures, and the Board
• Lead the development of dashboards and reporting that provide timely visibility into revenue, customer engagement, acquisition efficiency, retention, and product performance.
• Partner with Commercial Strategy to support forecasting, scenario modeling, and investment planning.
• Partner with Product teams to measure feature impact, identify friction points, and evaluate improvements to customer experience and repeat usage.
• Partner with Marketing teams on customer segmentation, lifecycle analysis, campaign performance, and attribution.
• Translate data into action, ensuring insights drive decisions, priorities, and follow-through across Predicts leadership.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance, working with central FanDuel Analytics to align tooling, definitions, and infrastructure.

Benefits

• We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards.
• Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
• medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits.
• This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
• FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed