Data Analytics Manager at Ashby · LumiJobs

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👋 Hi, I’m Kevin. I manage the Data team and our analytics products at Ashby. I’m hiring our first Data Analytics Manager at an important point in Ashby’s growth, and I hope you have the patience to read a job posting that may be a little unconventional.
The primary result of your successful management will be a team of analysts with excellent judgment, strong technical methods, clear communication, and a deep sense of ownership. I am looking for someone who can help that team do better work, choose better work, and grow into the next stage of Ashby alongside the company.
Rather than begin with a long list of tools or years of experience, I want to share four questions that sit at the center of this role. If you apply, your answer should be “yes” to each. Should we get a chance to talk, what I will really want to understand is the nuance: your unique how, why, and what behind your answers.
Can you identify and hire talented people?
We will continue to grow the analyst team, and you will play a meaningful role in finding and assessing future teammates. Great analysts combine technical judgment, curiosity, communication, business context, and a willingness to own work end to end. Can you recognize that combination in others?
Can you develop and amplify the data practices that let a small team do excellent work?
Ashby’s Data team is lean, and our practices will need to evolve as the company becomes more complex. I see this role as an opportunity to improve the ways we prioritize work, review it, share knowledge, maintain quality, and collaborate.
Can you lead the team through the transition from broad shared context to meaningful specialization?
Today, each analyst can know a great deal about the company and data stack. That will become more challenging as Ashby grows across products, regions, systems, and business functions. We will need to develop stronger domain context and clearer ways of working without turning the team into a set of narrow, disconnected specialists.
Can you help the Data team navigate the rapidly evolving implications of AI?
AI will affect how our analysts work, how the company self-serves analytical questions, and how other teams use internal business data. Much of that work depends on trusted, well-modeled, appropriately accessible warehouse-derived data. You will help the Data team explore and evaluate the relevant tools, workflows, and partnerships—bringing ambition, practicality, and a high bar for accuracy.
These questions add up to a simple reality: Ashby is growing quickly, and the surrounding data needs are becoming more complex. We are becoming a multi-product, global company with more business systems and larger team dynamics. This is a great opportunity at a great company, but it will be hard and consequential work. I am looking for a manager who is excited to help shape the Data function and build an excellent team for its current and future members.

Qualification

You would rather use a metricNaturallyData Culture at AshbyAt AshbyWith these dynamics in mindAs a related but distinct pointInterview ProcessOur interview process is thoroughHiring Manager Screen (30 mins)

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Spreadsheet-only analytical work is your preferred mode. Fluency with SQL in a modern data warehouse is essential.
You would rather use a metric, dashboard, experiment, or process by default than first ask what degree of evidence is actually needed to make a good decision.
You are looking for consumer-scale data infrastructure projects. We have a large and interesting dataset (see our Talent Trends reports!), but we are a B2B SaaS company. Relative to many B2C services, we are small but mighty.
You are seeking an in-person work experience. Ashby is remote, although there are employee hotspots around the world and we meet in person at various events throughout the year.
Naturally, this role is important and represents a combination of different skills. You may not meet every dimension perfectly, and that’s OK. If the dot product of your skill vector with this requirements vector is close to 1, please consider applying, but please note it does not have to be 1.0.
Data Culture at Ashby
At Ashby, we draw a clear distinction between when to look to data for "the answer" and when to use data to aid principled thinking for decision making. In general, a primary consideration is whether or not data is needed to help clarify points of uncertainty. When data is considered necessary, a secondary consideration is to what depth data will be required. Data questions lend themselves to ongoing "what about..." or "what if..." explorations, which can be important in some situations but are not always necessary.
With these dynamics in mind, we do not foster an environment where every decision we make should be backed by data, but we do foster an environment where teammates ask whether or not data will fit the task at hand well. This, in turn, allows us to operate a lean team focused on projects where data provides true leverage to our overall business and product goals.
As a related but distinct point, Ashby’s data culture, as far as transparency and access goes, is very open. We share company-wide access to our financial standings, progress, goals, and generally make any data and reporting results broadly available. Outside of constraints related to whether a teammate has access to a particular tool, there are close to no constraints on access the state of the company as told by data or reporting. In general, we would like to continue and extend open access to data throughout the company (with your help!), but with consideration and not as a substitute for principled thinking :)
Interview Process
Our interview process is thorough, but we aim to be respectful of the total candidate time invested. We aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for Ashby and will provide ample information for you to determine if Ashby is the right fit for you. The expected process for this role is as follows:
Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins)

Data Analytics Manager

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