Director of Analytics

About the role

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we're a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We're investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. Who we're looking for We're looking for a Director of Product Analytics to directly influence how Rover makes decisions about our product experience, marketplace health, and company strategy. This person will lead our Product Analytics team and serve as a senior partner to Product and company leaders, bringing clear thinking and strong judgment to some of Rover's most important questions. We need a leader who can set direction, manage managers, influence senior stakeholders, and still enjoy diving deep when the work calls for it. The right person will raise the bar for how the team frames problems, evaluates evidence, and turns analysis into decisions. You will bring strong product instincts, practical marketplace judgment, and the credibility to influence company decisions beyond the product roadmap. You will help turn customer behavior, marketplace dynamics, and product performance into clear choices for the business, then build the team, rituals, and standards that make that happen consistently. This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Barcelona Office in the Poblenou neighborhood two days per week (Mondays and Thursdays). For this reason, candidates must be based in Barcelona or willing to relocate. Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We're driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a closely related field, with significant time supporting product, growth, marketplace, or consumer technology teams
• 5+ years of experience leading analytics teams, including experience managing managers and developing senior individual contributors
• Strong product and business judgment; you can move from customer behavior to company-level implications without losing the details
• Expert-level SQL and fluency with a modern analytics stack, including data warehouses, BI tools, product analytics platforms, and experimentation tools
• Comfort writing analysis code in Python, R, or a similar language when the work calls for it
• Deep understanding of experimentation, metric design, causal reasoning, and the common ways analyses can mislead decision-makers
• Experience improving data foundations, including event instrumentation, metric definitions, data quality, and analytics workflows
• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and changing business or product direction through clear analysis and strong communication
• Experience hiring, coaching, and raising technical standards for analysts and analytics managers
• Marketplace, e-commerce, subscription, or other scaled consumer product experience is strongly preferred
• An advanced degree in a quantitative field is helpful, but not required

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