Team Lead Product Analytics (Full Remote)

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is the 3rd largest social discovery company in the world, uniting 60+ brands with 500 million users. We solve the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection by transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. Our portfolio includes online communication platforms focusing on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming - Dating.com, DateMyAge, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, Kiseki, and others.

SDG invests in IT startups around the world. Our investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Clubhouse, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia.edu, and many others.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1200 professionals and digital nomads works all over the world.

Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

In August 2024, we achieved Great Place to Work US Certification! This achievement reflects our core belief that a truly exceptional workplace is built on trust, pride, and camaraderienot just great perks.

We are looking for a Product Analytics Team Lead to join one of our most well-established product - Cupid Media.

Your main tasks will be:

• Core Analytics & Product Impact (Hands-on, playing coach)

- Act as a playing coach: personally contribute to product and marketing analytics while leading the team

- Identify root causes of changes in product, marketing, and business KPIs

- Drive deep user behavior analysis, funnel analysis, and cohort analysis to support product decisions

- Lead design, evaluation, and interpretation of experiments (A/B testing, CUPED/CUPAC, proxy metrics)

- Assess and quantify the expected and actual business impact of product and marketing initiatives

- Partner closely with Product, Marketing, and Growth teams to support product strategy and roadmap decisions

• Team Leadership & People Management

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product analysts (2 analysts + functional DE support)

- Set clear goals, expectations, and development plans for team members

- Ensure high quality of analytical outputs, insights, and recommendations

- Conduct regular 1-1s, performance reviews, and competency development

- Foster a strong data-driven culture and analytical mindset across the product organization

• Analytics Systems, Infrastructure & Architecture Ownership

- Own and prioritize the analytics and data infrastructure backlog together with Data Engineering

- Translate business and product needs into analytical and data platform requirements

- Act as analytics owner for the core data platform and migration initiatives

- Ensure data quality, metric consistency, and scalability of analytics solutions

- Define and maintain standards for metrics, dashboards, experimentation, and analytical processes

• Marketing Analytics & Growth Analytics Ownership

- Build and scale a systematic marketing analytics framework (LTV, CAC, attribution, funnels)

- Ensure reliability and consistency of marketing signals used for decision-making

- Partner with Marketing and Growth teams to improve performance measurement and optimization

- Develop fast feedback loops and proxy metrics to accelerate learning and decision-making

• Stakeholder Management & Communication

- Serve as the main analytics partner for Product, Marketing, and key business stakeholders

- Proactively communicate insights, risks, and opportunities to leadership

-Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations

- Balance short-term business needs with long-term analytics strategy and platform development

We expect from you:

• Systems thinking: able to think both top-down and bottom-up, see the product, analytics, and data platform as a single system
• Product thinking: can think about the product through user behavior and metrics, understands what users actually do behind the numbers and how metrics reflect product value
• Critical thinking: questions data, assumptions, and conclusions; validates insights through cross-checks and alternative hypotheses
• Effective communication:
• Uses data-driven storytelling and references to support arguments
• Explains complex analytical concepts in clear and simple language
• Provides structured conclusions with clear recommendations and impact assessment
• Effectively collaborates with stakeholders and confidently presents and defends analytical results
• Ownership and independence: roactively identifies problems and growth opportunities without waiting for task
• English proficiency: Upper-intermediate (B2) or higher level of English (this is an English speaking team)
• Knowledge of Russian will be considered as advantage
• Ability to work 9:00 - 18:00 (between GMT+4-GMT+10 timezone)

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• 50% payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

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