Data Analyst, Merchandising
Fullscript
PythonSQL
Director of Strategy and Analytics
Tava Health
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Alabama, Arizona, California
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Lead
Tech Stack
PythonSQLTableau
About the role
- If you could spend your time doing something truly meaningful, chances are you’d choose work that could change people's lives for the better. At Tava Health, that's exactly what we do every day. Tava Health is a Series B startup, focused on scaling access to behavioral healthcare. We make meaningful connections between providers and clients accessible and easy by partnering with organizations to bring high-quality mental health care to their employees, members, and communities. We’re looking for a Director of Strategy & Analytics to drive and elevate how our company uses data to drive decisions. This is a unique opportunity to be the senior-most data leader in a growing, venture-backed startup — owning the vision, setting priorities, and ensuring data are both accurate and actionable. You’ll lead a small but high-impact data team — setting strategy and managing execution — while also directly delivering on analyses and insights yourself. You’ll work closely with the executive team and regularly provide input that shapes company strategy and informs board-level discussions. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable structuring a business case in a strategy session as they are structuring a SQL query to validate it. You thrive in ambiguity, bring clarity to complex problems, and design solutions that scale. Set the Data Agenda: Partner with leadership to identify and prioritize the most impactful analytics initiatives; Proactively surface new opportunities to use data to improve business performance; Prioritize incoming data requests; Define and communicate a clear roadmap for the data team. Deliver Insights that Influence Strategy: Translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations; Guide the team in uncovering deeper drivers and the “so what” behind results; Directly produce high-quality analyses and dashboards when needed. Lead and Build the Data Function: Manage, mentor, and develop our Senior Data Analyst; Collaborate with data engineering; Establish analytical best practices; Create processes, tools, and governance to scale. Implement Data Governance and Best Practices: Establish a single source of truth for key metrics; Develop and maintain a company-wide data dictionary; Implement processes to proactively identify and address schema or data source changes; Oversee processes for auditing and deprecating outdated reports. Act as a Cross-Functional Partner: Operate with the mindset of a product manager for data; Translate business problems into data questions; Communicate trade-offs, timelines, and limitations effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Background in strategy, analytics, or data leadership, with experience in management consulting (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or a similarly rigorous analytical environment preferred. Proven ability to influence strategy through data — getting to the “so what” and driving changes that generate measurable business impact. Skilled at leading and mentoring analysts while producing high-quality analyses yourself; strong SQL skills required, with Python, R, or similar as a plus. Experience managing BI/analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Metabase); familiarity with dbt is a plus. Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and storytelling skills — able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences. Highly organized, process-driven, and comfortable building structure in an ambiguous, resource-limited environment; startup experience is valued.
