Product Analytics Team Lead

Outbrain is seeking a highly motivated, impact driven, self-reliant Product Analytics Team Lead to join our BI group.
In this role, you’ll lead a group of analysts (domain experts) that work closely with our Product Management team to drive impact driven product development that serves thousands of publishers around the world.
If you're excited to work in a cutting-edge big data environment, eager to drive our data-driven culture, and push actionable insights to meet business needs, we’d love to meet you!

As with any Outbrain employee, we're looking for someone who is resourceful, bright, proactive, works well independently and as part of a team, and who will be passionate about what she or he does. For this position, we are looking for a person with exceptional analytical skills, and a true leader with experience of developing strong teams.
We provide a casual, fast-paced culture that is built on top performance. Candidates should be energetic self-starters who can grasp the always changing complexity of the business and technology.

Responsibilities:

• Help drive data and impact driven product development by working closely with the PM & the business teams as a focal point for all product analytics matters in the organization
• Lead a small team of product analysts that supports the supply side product organization.
• Create, support and maintain data models, reports, and dashboards to monitor products performance and evaluate the impact of new features and initiatives
• Get your hands dirty working with big data sets to provide useful actionable insights related to products – for both product and business users

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Statistics / Information Systems or a related technical field a must
• At least 5 years of proven hands-on experience in an analytic product role
• At least one year of proven experience in leading an analytics team
• Excellent SQL skills with experience of analysing and visualizing large data set a must, experience using: Vertica/Hadoop Hive a plus
• Experienced in leveraging data and analytics in a business environment influencing decision making
• Experienced with BI and data visualization tools a must, Tableau a plus
• Fast and independent learner
• Manage multiple tasks at a time in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and collaboration skills - both written and verbal (Hebrew and English)
• Experience in the digital space a must, and in Ad-tech a plus