[Remote] Senior Director, Analytics and Data Science, Core Product & Growth

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Life360 is hiring a Senior Director to lead MAU Analytics and Data Science. The role oversees decision science and data science across acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention, building measurement and operating standards while developing the team and informing product growth strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the decision scientists and data scientists on the team, and set the quality bar for both disciplines
• Own the MAU driver model and the forecast
• Own the exploratory work that drives the strategy to grow MAU
• Establish how an analysis gets scoped, run, reviewed, and written up, so its quality does not depend on who picked up the request
• Partner with your Revenue counterpart and Data Engineering leadership to define common metrics, align on experimentation standards, and introduce unified operating practices across teams
• Build the operating model that gets the team into the roadmap conversation early, with a view on what to build and what to test
• Use agents and automated analysis daily, and expect the same of the team
• Shape how the team works AI-native: what gets delegated to agents, what gets automated, and what stays human judgment

Skills

• 10+ years in analytics, data science, or decision science, including 5+ years in people management in a senior leadership role
• Deep expertise in inferential and causal analytics
• Able to lead ML practitioners
• Expert knowledge of engagement, retention, churn, and cohort metrics
• Experience forecasting a company-level metric and being held to it
• SQL, plus Python or R
• Experience with Databricks, third party experimentation tools (e.g. Statsig), Tableau or similar BI tools, and AI native BI tools (e.g. Hex, AI/BI)
• Hands-on with coding agents (Claude Code or equivalent) in your own analytical work
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• You have moved an analytics team from reactive to embedded
• You coach and develop people, and you have grown analysts into leaders
• On your teams, analysis starts from a hypothesis rather than a data request
• You have built the standards a team works from, and got people to use them
• You are curious about why people behave the way they do, not just what they did
• You decide what the team does not work on, and you can defend it
• Familiarity with experiment design to identify and control for network effects
• Master's degree or PhD with an emphasis in social science, psychology or other behavioral science
• Experience leading a team that reports to you but sits embedded with product and engineering teams
• Experience in a B2C subscription business

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees).
• Life and disability as well as supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US.
• RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
• Paid parental leave.
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being.
• Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.
• Remote-first work environment; positions can be performed remotely within the US and Canada.

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