Director Data Analytics Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 million members. They are seeking a hands-on Director of Data Analytics to lead and scale their functional analytics organization, ensuring that data-driven insights are integral to strategic decisions.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the analytics function across the organization, ensuring consistency in methodologies, toolsets, and quality standards across all embedded teams.
• Work closely with Department Leads to align analytics roadmaps with broader business goals and P&L objectives.
• Establish and monitor the adoption of standardized processes for experimentation, data modeling, and reporting. Ensure every team follows Current’s best practices for data trust and integrity.
• Act as an expert to structure and guide deep dive exploratory, root-cause analyses and business cases.
• Be ready to get hands-on with data to solve the company's most complex or ambiguous problems.
• Actively participate in formal reviews for RFCs, experimental designs, and learning briefs. Provide critical oversight on success metrics and the interpretation of complex test results.
• Manage the performance, career tracks, and professional growth of Analytics Managers and Leads. Serve as a mentor to elevate the technical and storytelling bar of the entire org.
• Actively manage and oversee team bandwidth and prioritize high-impact initiatives.
• Step in to lead work streams directly if a Lead is unavailable or if a project requires senior-level intervention.
• Develop and expand the analytics organization to support and keep pace with business growth.
• Drive the adoption of a data-driven culture by delivering powerful insights and narratives to executive leadership that influence the company’s trajectory.
• Collaborate closely with peers across the engineering, analytics engineering, and data science organizations to advance initiatives related to data modeling, experimentation, and analytics.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of experience in data analytics, including 5+ years in the D2C domain, ideally within high-growth, customer-centric industries.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing managers and overseeing cross-functional or embedded analytics structures.
• Demonstrated expert proficiency in SQL and Python, including the ability to independently conduct sophisticated analyses and optimize code for performance enhancements.
• Expertise in the design, interpretation, and monitoring of randomized controlled trials (A/B/n testing), encompassing significance testing and statistical inference.
• Skilled in developing and interpreting complex, advanced experimental frameworks.
• You have a proven track record of using data to change minds and drive strategy. You can tailor your communication to be equally effective with an individual contributor or a C-suite executive.
• You are to translate complex data into compelling, structured narratives and actionable insights with ease.
• Experienced in designing and implementing dashboards that provide structured and actionable information.
• Experience with dimensional modeling, utilizing Kimball methodologies optimized for a modern data ecosystem.
• You can find the needle in the haystack, using root-cause analysis to turn ambiguous data into clear business opportunities.
• Built and maintained scalable analytics infrastructure, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Finance teams to define success metrics and validate hypotheses.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred:
• Direct experience in the D2C Fintech domain is preferred.
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams.
• Managed and led teams distributed across various time zones.
• Expertise in data transformation and modeling.
Company:
Current is a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.