
Senior Manager, Business Analytics
NerdWallet
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $169,000 - $318,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PythonSQLTableau
About the role
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of business analysts to deliver high-quality, actionable insights.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to identify key business questions and translate them into analytical strategies.
- Define and interpret core KPIs that measure success across customer acquisition, retention, engagement, and financial performance.
- Build and scale dashboards, reporting tools, and frameworks that help teams make faster, smarter decisions.
- Analyze marketing and business performance across channels (paid, organic, email, affiliates, etc.) to optimize ROI and inform resource allocation.
- Leverage data to understand the product and business ecosystem, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and shape product development.
- You will help develop a strategy and support leadership in prioritizing what to build and setting goals for execution.
- You will guide product teams using data and insights. You will focus on developing hypotheses and employ a varied toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them
- Not just present data, not tell data-driven stories. Present insights and recommendations to convince and influence senior leadership with clarity and confidence.
- Partner with Data Engineering to leverage infrastructure and data pipelines for scalable, repeatable analysis.
- Stay current with evolving analytics tools, methodologies, and best practices to continually raise the bar for the team and function.
Requirements
- 7 or more years in analytics, business intelligence, or a related data-driven role.
- Proven experience leading analytics initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes.
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one data visualization tool such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
- Experience using R, Python, or similar tools for statistical analysis and modeling.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present to executives and non-technical audiences.
- Deep understanding of fintech, consumer finance, or related industries.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
Benefits
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend
- Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy
- Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction
- Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match
- 401K with company match
- Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
- Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLdata visualizationLookerTableauPower BIRPythonstatistical analysismodelingKPI definition
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementorganizational skillsanalytical thinkinginfluencingstrategic thinkingpresentation skillscollaboration