gumtree Careers Near Me – Product Analytics Lead

About the job

You are only a few clicks away from helping millions of buyers and sellers make ‘Good Finds Happen’ on one of the UK’s most visited and loved websites, Gumtree.com. 🌳

With nearly a million new ads on the site each week and a whopping 14 million unique visitors every month, Gumtree prides itself on being the go-to place for everything from smartphones to cars and jobs to flats.

As a company we are on a mission to make buying and selling second hand safer, simpler and more enjoyable for everyone, because we believe everything can find a new purpose (and that’s good for you and good for the planet). 🌎

Overview

We are looking for a Lead Product Analyst to join our team at Gumtree. The Lead Product Analyst will work with the product teams responsible for improving the Gumtree product offering and user experience. This role is critical in driving data-led decision-making and product development through experimentation, identifying opportunities and influencing the product strategy. You will have a strong analytical background and customer-oriented approach, thrive on solving highly analytical problems and turn data into actionable insights. You will serve as an influential thought leader for product leadership and be an ambassador for the product analytics community.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to improve the product offering and user experience through proactive insights, influencing the product roadmap and testing plan.

• Develop hypotheses, set up experiments and analyse results to generate insights and provide recommendations.

• Provide thought leadership on product strategy and influence business direction.

• Work with product managers to determine success metrics, monitor product health and progress towards OKRs, demonstrating business impact of the product team.

• Collaborate with UX researchers to synthesise qualitative and quantitative insights.

• Identify opportunities for and drive ongoing improvement to our analytics experimentation processes and tooling to ensure these follow best practices and meet business needs.

• Foster data-driven culture across product and wider business through actively democratising insights and building stakeholder networks.

• Support the Product Analytics community through coaching, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Work with analysts and product leadership to improve our capabilities, whether through tooling, ways of working or upskilling.

Key stakeholders

Product Managers, UX Designers, UX Researchers, Product Analysts, Head of Product

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree

Preferred skills and experience

• Strong background in quantitative thinking, data analysis and statistics is essential.

• Proven track record of creating actionable insight and recommendations which have driven business impact.

• Web/app analytics experience in a product development environment.

• Proficient knowledge of SQL (we use Spark but any dialect will do) and Excel are essential. Proficiency in Python and/or R is a distinct advantage.

• Experience working with web analytics platforms (e.g. Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, etc).

• Experience with A/B test design and analysis (in any domain) is essential.

• Self-motivated and results driven, with an ability to challenge the status quo and a ‘can-do’ attitude.

• Curious and passionate about learning and building great products to help us and our partners grow.

• Strong stakeholder management skills to influence across multiple teams.

• You have an open and honest communication style.

• You speak fluent English and possess excellent interpersonal communication skills.

• You have a sense of fun and a positive demeanour to enthuse and engage people.

• You are comfortable in agile, cross-functional teams and are familiar with JIRA/Confluence or similar tools.

Perks: 🚀

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, we offer a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs.

That’s why we’re pleased to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package. This includes:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service. 🏖️

• Company bonus scheme. 💷

• Private health insurance. 🏥

• Private dental insurance. 🦷

• Income protection policy. 💰

• Conference & education budget. 🏫

• Remote / Hybrid / Office based working available* 💻

Diversity & Inclusion at Gumtree

Here at Gumtree.com we are on a mission to create a culture where all our teams are inspired to share their passion, talents and ideas with equal opportunities for growth and career development throughout both of our brands.

We know that a diverse and inclusive team drives creativity and makes both our brands stronger. That’s why we’re committed to discovering new talent and employing people who reflect the nature of the society around us, so that when you join Gumtree.com, you can be you!