State Affairs is the nation’s leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. We combine nonpartisan coverage of Statehouses across the country alongside state government data and AI-native tools into a singular platform.
We inform and empower decision makers, policy professionals and citizens through our award-winning journalism and data – delivering profound insights to help our customers decode and act on state politics and policy. We’re building a category-defining business that will reshape America as we strengthen visibility into what’s happening and why at the state level.
We are hiring a Director, Platform Analytics, to join our team.
As the Director, Platform Analytics, you will:
- Own and scale the analytics data model, including transformation layers and dimensional modeling
- Build, maintain, and monitor reliable production analytics workflows and pipelines
- Partner with Engineering to ensure data quality, resolve source issues, and manage upstream changes
- Define, standardize, and document core business metrics and maintain a centralized metrics catalog
- Design and own dashboards and reporting for operational, strategic, and executive use cases
- Enable self-serve analytics and reduce reliance on manual spreadsheet reporting
- Support cross-functional analytics needs across Growth, Product, Finance, Editorial, and Executive teams
- Improve analytics efficiency, tooling, documentation, and platform capabilities as maturity grows
Essential Qualifications for this position include:
- Professional work experience as a data analyst
- Proven experience designing and maintaining scalable analytics data models, including staging, intermediate, and mart layers (e.g., dimensional models, fact tables).
- Ability to partner effectively with Engineering, Product, Growth, Finance, and other business teams to translate business questions into trusted analytics, metrics, and reporting solutions.
- Experience defining standardized metrics, maintaining documentation and metrics catalogs, monitoring data quality, and reducing manual reporting through automated, trusted analytics.
Preferred Qualifications for this position include:
- Prior professional work experience in a start-up organization
This is a remote work opportunity that is based in the United States. The salary range for this role as it is posted is $130,000 - $150,000 per year. State Affairs offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to employees.
The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. Benefits listed in this posting may vary depending on the nature of your employment with State Affairs.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.
State Affairs is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. State Affairs does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
State Affairs is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as they go through our job application and interview process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
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