Tovala-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Chicago, IL
101-250 employees

At Tovala, we eat data for breakfast… along with our delicious biscuits. Our team is a small group of analysts and engineers who are passionate about helping teams across the Tovala organization make data-driven decisions. We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to lead Retention Analytics, focusing on understanding, forecasting, and improving how customers engage with Tovala over time. The ideal candidate combines analytical rigor with a deep curiosity about customer behavior, always asking why customers act the way they do and how we can better serve them. This person will be a key partner for our Lifecycle Marketing (LCM), Demand Planning, Finance, and Product teams, helping them answer critical questions such as: What drives customer retention? How can we design initiatives to improve it? How much future demand will our customers generate? This role will build and sustain a retention analytics ecosystem: generating and validating hypotheses, modeling potential outcomes, measuring performance against expectations, and using insights to generate new hypotheses. They will own core analytics products such as retention models, churn predictions, and demand forecasts – ensuring these tools are actionable, trusted, and accessible for business stakeholders.

  • Lead Tovala’s retention analytics ecosystem in partnership with Marketing and Product teams: frame hypotheses, validate through A/B testing and analysis, model scenarios to predict impact, and measure outcomes to feed learnings back into the ecosystem.
  • Own retention models and demand forecasts by building churn/retention models that predict customer behavior and translating insights to inform operational decisions and financial forecasts.
  • Design and steward analytics products as product owner for retention-related tools, ensuring usability, adoption, and scalability in partnership with data engineering.
  • Deliver insights that drive decisions by exploring the data warehouse with SQL, uncovering cohort and behavioral trends, and communicating results through compelling data stories and decision frameworks.
  • Contribute as a leader on the analytics team by driving projects from ideation to implementation and promoting sustainable, high-quality data practices.
  • 5+ years of experience in data analytics, ideally focused on retention, lifecycle marketing, or customer behavior.
  • Highly proficient in SQL and comfortable navigating large-scale data warehouses (Snowflake experience a plus).
  • Hands-on experience with A/B testing, experiment design, and campaign measurement.
  • Comfortable applying modeling and simulation techniques to evaluate strategic alternatives.
  • Proven experience working directly with marketing, product, or operations teams, translating business needs into analyses, forecasts, and decision frameworks.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to balance quick-turn analyses and scalable analytics product development.
  • Familiarity with BI tools (Sigma, Looker, Tableau, etc.).
  • Experience with Python or R.
  • Knowledge of version control (e.g. Git).
  • Familiarity with demand forecasting methods or decision analysis frameworks.
  • Flexible paid time off (with a minimum of 15 days off you HAVE to take).
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
  • 401k with match.
  • Free Tovala Smart Oven and discounted Tovala meals.
  • Paid holidays and winter holiday office shutdown.
  • Recognition programs, continued learning stipend, casual dress code, in-office coffee, snacks and drinks, and Tovala swag.
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