Lead Data Analyst

Our romantic relationship with our partner is one of the most important parts of our lives, but building and maintaining a happy relationship over time can be challenging. We want to make that easier.

Our core belief at Paired is that love is something we practice, each and every day, and we believe there’s an opportunity to help couples do this via a fun, effective, and affordable app.

We launched our app in October 2020 and have won several awards since then, including being named one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020 and Apple App of the Day in January 2023. Our app is now used by more than 250,000 people a day and we’re the #1 player in the relationship management category.

We’re looking for a talented Lead Data Analyst to dive into our data sets, find insights, and make recommendations that drive value for our couples and business.

As our first data hire you’ll be working with different teams across Paired to perform analysis on everything from marketing efficacy to product usage. You’ll also be building some of the foundations of our data warehouse and data models that will be used for years to come. Lastly, within your first 6-12 months you’ll start hiring and managing our data team.

This is a unique opportunity to work with one of the best data sets on relationships in the world and will report to our VP of Operations.

Data Strategy and Leadership

• Define and communicate Paired’s data strategy
• Partner with stakeholders to identify important questions, prioritise the data roadmap, and cultivate a data-informed culture
• Help define OKRs and track progress against them
• Build Paired’s data team over time; defining, hiring and managing new roles

Marketing and Product Analytics

• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor performance
• Perform analysis of marketing channels, product features and experiments to provide insights on performance
• Create and own custom models e.g. attribution model

Data Management

• Ensure data accuracy and integrity by implementing data validation processes and monitoring data pipelines
• Ensure data from various channels and campaigns are up-to-date, reliable, and consistent
• Manage events definitions and self-service data tools

Requirements

• Significant experience with hands-on data analysis and experience with hiring and managing people
• Experience with marketing analysis such as campaign measurement, ROI, and attribution
• Experience with product analysis such as retention, conversion funnels, and user behaviour
• Experience executing A/B and multivariate testing
• Comfortable with analytics engineering, including setting up and managing CDPs, data warehouses and data pipelines
• Expertise using SQL to extract, clean, and transform data
• Experience working with R, Python, or other statistical software
• Expertise with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker
• Collaborative mindset, working closely with both business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to condense complex concepts and analysis into clear and concise takeaways
• Willing to roll up your sleeves and perform tasks independently to build a solid foundation before transitioning to a more managerial role
• Experience in the mobile app industry is a significant plus
• A valid UK or European work permit or passport (no sponsorship requirements)

Benefits

• Yearly salary between £75-85K (role is available in other European markets, the salary will be slightly adjusted to the cost of living in your country)
• Significant stock options
• Fully remote work setup from any European country within ±1 hour of London time
• 3x company offsites every year (e.g. in Malaga, Florence, Lisbon...)
• Subsidised co-working space
• Work with a modern data stack: Snowflake, DBT, Fivetran and Looker
• 25 days annual leave (+public holidays)
• Yearly learning budget of £1,000 / €1,150
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Opportunity to help millions of people with their relationship

1. Application Review - We’ll review your application as soon as possible to assess your qualifications, experience, and motivation
2. Initial Call - Tom Priestley (VP of Operations), who would be your line manager, will reach out to have a conversation with you about your background and the role
3. Task - We’ll send you a data task to complete at home to assess your practical skills
4. Team Interviews - The final step involves interviews with different team members you would be working with on a day-to-day basis

• Our core value is championing relationships. Our app was built to serve all couples regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity
• We strive to create an inclusive environment where unique perspectives are encouraged, as we firmly believe that diversity enhances our company, culture and product
• We regularly review our hiring processes, materials and pipeline to ensure they are accessible and free of bias, offering equal opportunity to underrepresented groups. We are also always learning. We maintain open minds and welcome feedback on how we can improve, no matter where it comes from

Excited by our business but not sure if you meet the job criteria? Not to worry! If you feel you have that special something and could contribute to our mission, get in touch anyway. We are always looking to add great people and we know that you are more than your CV.

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