Director, Business Analytics

August 27

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Underdog Fantasy

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Gaming • Sports • B2C

Underdog Fantasy is a company specializing in fantasy sports and sports betting. Despite the technical issue mentioned in the text, it provides a platform where users can engage in fantasy sports contests, draft teams, and potentially win prizes based on the performance of real-world athletes. The company's focus is on providing a fun and competitive experience for sports fans who want to test their skills and luck in fantasy leagues and sports-related betting.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of analysts supporting Finance, Operations, and Risk & Trading. • Partner with business leaders to translate needs into an actionable analytics roadmap and align delivery with decision calendars. • Define and enforce golden metrics and establish a single source of truth through dbt models, semantic layers, and BI tools. • Create durable intake, triage, and delivery workflows balancing quick-turn needs with strategic work. • Deliver self-serve dashboards, curated datasets, and prototype AI-powered self-serve capabilities to reduce ad-hoc requests. • Provide timely analyses influencing financial planning, operational efficiency, and trading risk management; drive measurable improvements and retire legacy reports.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in analytics or related fields, with 4+ years managing teams; proven ability to grow, attract, and mentor talent. • Skilled at influencing stakeholders, balancing competing priorities, and aligning analytics with business outcomes. • Track record of establishing effective processes, roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks that scale. • Experienced in defining, operationalizing, and enforcing company-wide metrics via modern data tools (dbt, semantic layers, BI). • Strong SQL required; experience with dbt and modern BI tools (Looker, Sigma, Tableau). • Excited about enabling self-serve analytics through AI and next-generation tools. • Preferable: experience in high-growth consumer tech, fintech, or gaming; background in corporate finance, accounting, or risk management; exposure to fraud detection, payments, regulatory compliance, or customer support.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • A $500 home office allowance • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents