Hiring: Lead Data Analyst, Strategy & Growth Company: Blackbird Labs Location: New York, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:44:20 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : A/B Testing, Amplitude, Python, SQL, dbt About the job Experience: •8+ years in analytics, data science, growth analytics, or a quantitative strategy role, ideally at a high-growth marketplace, fintech, payments, or consumer tech company. Required Skills: •Own Blackbird’s growth measurement framework. Define the success metrics, guardrails, and targets for each major growth initiative, then measure performance, validate assumptions, and flag the gaps. •Build and maintain the analytical layer behind the Cockpit, market scorecards, and growth ROI reporting that leadership and the Board rely on. •Turn open-ended strategic questions about where to grow next and which investments are paying off into clear, defensible analysis and recommendations. •Build the models that drive both sides of the marketplace: restaurant composite scoring, market and neighborhood targeting, customer and behavioral segmentation, and Fly Load and lifecycle value models. •Identify which restaurants and customers create the most long-term value and which behaviors strengthen the marketplace flywheel across TPV, MPU, DPU, retention, and Fly Load growth. •Stand up the experimentation framework that lets Growth learn quickly, with a high bar for statistical rigor and causal measurement. •Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Restaurants to instrument initiatives, define the data we need, and read out results. •Build lightweight tooling and automation with Product and Engineering to speed up analysis and cut manual reporting. Qualifications: •Expert SQL and a strong analytical toolkit in Python or R for modeling, segmentation, and experimentation, including the ability to write and optimize complex queries over large datasets. •A track record of turning messy data into decisions that moved a core business metric, with the judgment to know which metric matters. •Deep experience with experimentation and A/B testing, plus causal measurement methods such as incrementality and holdouts. •Fluency in marketplace, growth, and unit-economics concepts such as TPV, retention, LTV, ROI, and cohort analysis. •Clear communication with senior audiences, with the ability to take an analysis from the numbers to a recommendation leadership can act on. •Comfort working with autonomy and ambiguity on a founding team. •Background in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a strong growth or analytics team. •Depending on your work location and experience the target annual salary for this position is: $165,000 - $180,000 USD. This does not include the variable or equity components of the overall compensation package. Disclosure in accordance with New York City’s Pay Transparency Law. Compensation: •$165,000 - $180,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!