Product Data Analytics Manager

CarGurus • Boston, MA

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
What you’ll do
Lead product and engineering teams for CarGurus’ online retail experience. Duties include: identify solutions in complex data sets to transform insights into strategic opportunities for CarGurus; partner with leadership teams across engineering, product, data engineering, data science, and marketing teams to support and implement high-quality, data driven decisions; utilize SQL and Python expertise, conduct exploratory empirical analyses that bridge disparate data sources to quantify product performance, user behavior, and/or market trends; design and build technical processes to solve business issues; manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining, and engineering, modeling, visualization, and communication deliverables; oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics; craft the metrics that define business success, condensing abstract or loosely-defined concepts down to concrete calculations; audit and improve existing metrics to better inform the business’ needs; advocate data-driven product innovations that align high-level company strategy; collaborate with the product/engineering teams; participate in brainstorming and planning discussions support CarGurus goals; provide technical guidance on and ideas for improving A/B testing-related tools, algorithms, and automated processes; build intuitive dashboards and other visual monitoring tools to guide daily decision-making by senior stakeholders and the company at large; communicate and present complex quantitative findings in easily digestible terms to company leadership, homing in on key takeaways; train and mentor analyst-level employees; develop onboarding plans and training materials; and provide guidance in best practices and encourage innovative data solutions. Multiple positions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Finance, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Requires two (2) years of experience in each of the following: DBT, Google Suite, or Microsoft Suite; SQL; Statistical programming, including R, Stata, SAS or Python; core statistical concepts, including regression, significance testing, omitted variable bias, and independence/dependence; Looker, Snowflake, Salesforce, or Jira; and Data analytics, including data modeling and analysis of user behavior.

Responsibilities

• Lead product and engineering teams for CarGurus’ online retail experience.
• Identify solutions in complex data sets to transform insights into strategic opportunities for CarGurus
• Partner with leadership teams across engineering, product, data engineering, data science, and marketing teams to support and implement high-quality, data driven decisions
• Utilize SQL and Python expertise, conduct exploratory empirical analyses that bridge disparate data sources to quantify product performance, user behavior, and/or market trends
• Design and build technical processes to solve business issues
• Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining, and engineering, modeling, visualization, and communication deliverables
• Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics
• Craft the metrics that define business success, condensing abstract or loosely-defined concepts down to concrete calculations
• Audit and improve existing metrics to better inform the business’ needs
• Advocate data-driven product innovations that align high-level company strategy
• Collaborate with the product/engineering teams
• Participate in brainstorming and planning discussions support CarGurus goals
• Provide technical guidance on and ideas for improving A/B testing-related tools, algorithms, and automated processes
• Build intuitive dashboards and other visual monitoring tools to guide daily decision-making by senior stakeholders and the company at large
• Communicate and present complex quantitative findings in easily digestible terms to company leadership, homing in on key takeaways
• Train and mentor analyst-level employees
• Develop onboarding plans and training materials
• Provide guidance in best practices and encourage innovative data solutions

Benefits

• We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us.
• Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways.
• A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being.
• Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager