Director, Platform Analytics
About The Position
State Affairs is the nation’s leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. We combine nonpartisan coverage of Statehouses across the country alongside state government data and AI-native tools into a singular platform. We inform and empower decision makers, policy professionals and citizens through our award-winning journalism and data – delivering profound insights to help our customers decode and act on state politics and policy. We’re building a category-defining business that will reshape America as we strengthen visibility into what’s happening and why at the state level. We are hiring a Director, Platform Analytics, to join our team. As the Director, Platform Analytics, you will:
Requirements
- Professional work experience as a data analyst
- Proven experience designing and maintaining scalable analytics data models, including staging, intermediate, and mart layers (e.g., dimensional models, fact tables).
- Ability to partner effectively with Engineering, Product, Growth, Finance, and other business teams to translate business questions into trusted analytics, metrics, and reporting solutions.
- Experience defining standardized metrics, maintaining documentation and metrics catalogs, monitoring data quality, and reducing manual reporting through automated, trusted analytics.
Nice To Haves
- Prior professional work experience in a start-up organization
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the analytics data model, including transformation layers and dimensional modeling
- Build, maintain, and monitor reliable production analytics workflows and pipelines
- Partner with Engineering to ensure data quality, resolve source issues, and manage upstream changes
- Define, standardize, and document core business metrics and maintain a centralized metrics catalog
- Design and own dashboards and reporting for operational, strategic, and executive use cases
- Enable self-serve analytics and reduce reliance on manual spreadsheet reporting
- Support cross-functional analytics needs across Growth, Product, Finance, Editorial, and Executive teams
- Improve analytics efficiency, tooling, documentation, and platform capabilities as maturity grows
Benefits
- State Affairs offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
