Director, Internal Analysis

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29000 companies including Workday Pinterest LG and Rakuten Viber Mixpanels AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption improve retention and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics session replay experimentation feature flags and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit to learn more.

About the Team

Internal Analysis is the data team at Mixpanel the team that turns data from every corner of the business into the decisions that shape our product and our growth. They own the full path: from raw data in source systems through a governed warehouse to the models metrics and insights leaders across the company act on.

Its two complementary disciplines under one roof. Our Analytics Engineers own the data end to end ingesting from source systems modeling through a medallion architecture on BigQuery and producing the trusted tables and reporting artifacts the rest of the company runs on. Our Data Scientists build on that foundation partnering with Product to refine the user experience and with GTM to sharpen how we grow inspecting signals running experiments and surfacing the insights that change what we do next.

About the Role

Youll lead this team and help shape Mixpanels data culture. Were looking for someone who can influence the organization to become more metrics-driven: establishing clear KPIs helping teams define success upfront and ensuring analytics and data science are engaged as strategic partners from the start of an initiative not brought in at the end to validate decisions already made. As we grow the data organizations remit across the company this role has the scope to establish practices that dont yet exist KPI ownership cross-functional operating rhythms a shared standard for what data-driven means here and where AI belongs in both how the team works and what the platform delivers. It takes building real trust with cross-functional leaders to make any of it stick.

This role reports directly into the executive team reflecting the strategic priority were placing on data as a company.

The role blends technical leadership people development and business judgment. Youll own the technical bar for how we ingest model govern and instrument our data coach senior ICs through ambiguous questions and make sure the teams work lands that the signals we surface actually change what the company does.

Were posting this role open to either Senior Manager or Director level with final leveling based on the candidates experience and scope. Strong Senior Managers ready for a step-up are encouraged to apply alongside seasoned Director-level candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead & Develop: Build coach and grow a high-performing team of Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists. Invest in their development hold a high bar for craft and create an environment where strong technical people do their best work.
• Shape Our Data Culture: Influence the organization to become more metrics-driven establishing clear KPIs helping teams define success upfront and building the operating rhythms that make analytics a strategic partner from the start rather than an afterthought.
• Own the Data End to End: Guide the team across the full data lifecycle ingestion modeling through our medallion architecture on BigQuery and production of the trusted tables and reporting artifacts that serve as the companys single source of truth. Youll also help the team apply AI where it strengthens our own product such as anomaly detection forecasting or AI-assisted insight generation ensuring were building the capabilities wed expect any modern data function to have.
• Partner & Drive Insight: Serve as the senior data partner to leaders across Product Engineering Marketing Sales CS and Finance surfacing the questions that matter translating them into analytical approaches and turning findings into clear recommendations. Hold the team to a standard of insight not just analysis.
• Raise the Technical Bar: Continue elevating standards for pipeline reliability SQL dbt practices data modeling experimentation and statistical rigor.
• Communicate & Manage Change: Translate company strategy into clear priorities and guide your team through evolving business needs with clarity.
• Innovate & Eat Our Own Dog Food: We use Mixpanel to understand Mixpanel. Find new ways to combine our warehouse product analytics and experimentation tools to set the example of what data-driven looks like. With a lean team youll look for ways AI can extend our capacity from AI-assisted coding and pipeline development to accelerating analysis so the teams time goes to judgment and insight not repetitive work.

Were Looking For Someone Who

• Has progressive experience in data and analytics in a B2B SaaS environment including 3 years of people management ideally across both Analytics Engineering and Data Science. More senior candidates whove led a centralized data function are also encouraged to apply.
• Is highly effective at driving organizational change building trust with cross-functional leaders influencing how teams set and measure goals and embedding data into how decisions get made.
• Brings strong technical fluency across the full data stack: ingestion and pipeline orchestration SQL dbt data warehouse design (BigQuery Snowflake or similar) Python statistical modeling experimentation and forecasting and experience with AI.
• Fluency with applying AI in both directions: using AI tools to increase team leverage and velocity and evaluating where AI-driven capabilities (forecasting anomaly detection automated insight surfacing) belong in the product itself.
• Understands the Data Science craft well enough to coach it experimentation design causal inference and the judgment to know when a sophisticated method is warranted versus when a clear chart will do.
• Has partnered closely with Product and GTM leaders with a track record of analytical work that materially changed how a company operates.
• Demonstrates a player-coach mentality comfortable in a pipeline issue model review or SQL deep-dive but able to step back and lead through others.
• Communicates complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike including senior leaders.
• Is a natural mentor and developer of talent with a history of building inclusive high-achieving teams.
• Has direct experience with the modern data stack (BigQuery dbt Fivetran Hex).

Bonus Points

• Experience with Mixpanel or other product analytics tools (Amplitude Heap Pendo).
• Familiarity with experimentation platforms and the operational side of running a healthy A/B testing program.
• Background in PLG and/or hybrid go-to-market motions.
• Openness to or active desire for being a public-facing voice for the craft: speaking writing and shaping best practices for analytics and product analytics across the wider SaaS community.

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical Vision and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K) Wellness Benefit Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers needs ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel

Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling reliability design and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means youll be helping the worlds most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel we are focused on things that really matterour people our customers our partnersout of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women people with disabilities veterans underrepresented minorities and LGBTQ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.