Director, Data Analytics
About The Position
The Director of Data Analytics will lead the development and execution of YouGov’s global analytics strategy, ensuring that customer-facing data is not only collected and connected, but deeply understood and activated across the organization. This role is central to transforming YouGov’s “living data” into actionable intelligence that drives product innovation, business growth, and client success. Working at the intersection of data, insight, and strategy, the Director will will lead a multidisciplinary analytics team, collaborate with customer success, product, research, and engineering partners, and advance the organization’s analytical capabilities to turn data into clear, evidence-based stories about people, behaviors, and trends.
Requirements
- Expert-level SQL and data modelling skills, with the ability to personally review, optimize, and guide complex analytical queries
- Hands-on experience designing and scaling modern analytics architectures (data warehouse, lake house, semantic layers)
- Proven ability to lead analytics implementations on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), balancing performance, cost, and reliability
- Deep practical knowledge of BI and visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker), including dashboard design and metric governance
- Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis, automation, and advanced analytical workflows
- Strong command of ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics engineering best practices (e.g., dbt, Airflow, cloud-native tools)
- Solid grounding in statistics, experimentation, and analytical methods to support product and business decision-making
- Experience partnering closely with data engineering and data science to operationalize analytics and ML-enabled insights
- Ability to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for executives and cross-functional leaders
- A strategic yet hands-on mindset, comfortable defining long-term vision and engaging deeply in data structure and collection details.
- A passion for connecting disparate data sources to tell coherent, insightful stories about people and behavior.
- The ability to make clear, evidence-based decisions about which data to collect and how to structure it for long-term value.
- A strong commitment to accuracy, transparency, and ethical data use, core to YouGov’s reputation for trusted insight.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global analytics strategy aligned with YouGov’s data-driven vision.
- Develop standardized analytics frameworks, metrics, and methodologies for consistent insight generation.
- Support client-facing teams with analytics that showcase the value of YouGov’s data and help ensure customers understand the “why” behind our insights.
- Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for internal and external stakeholders.
- Advance analytical capabilities through predictive modeling, automation, and data visualization.
- Lead and mentor a global analytics team; foster a culture of rigor, curiosity, and collaboration.
- Define and track KPIs for analytics performance, adoption, and business impact.
- Communicate insights and outcomes to senior leadership, promoting analytics as a strategic advantage.
Benefits
- Paid vacation, holidays and sick days
- Flexible working arrangement available
- Group medical, dental and vision insurance
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) with company match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
