Principal of Strategic Insights & Analytics, ButcherBox
$160-200k
Office located in Greater Boston, MA
Meat delivery subscription
Be an early applicant
Meat delivery subscription
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
Office located in Greater Boston, MA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make high-quality meat more accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, strategy, consulting, finance, or a related field, with demonstrated progression into senior‑level responsibility
- Proven ability to operate as both a strategic individual contributor and people leader
- Strong technical skills across analytics and data tooling (Preferred: familiarity with Databricks SQL, Power BI, or similar cloud-native analytics environments)
- Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into clear, executive ready insights
- Experience working with senior leaders and influencing decisions in ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated comfort thinking in systems and navigating tradeoffs across competing priorities
What the job involves
- As Principal, Strategic Insights and Analytics, you will serve as a senior individual contributor and people leader responsible for shaping how the business understands performance, anticipates what’s next, and makes better strategic decisions
- This is a player–coach role, with direct ownership of proactive, forward‑looking insights and the Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE), while managing a team of analysts
- You will partner closely with senior leaders across the entire organization to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights
- This role requires a strong strategic lens, deep technical fluency, exceptional written communication, systems thinking, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- The ideal candidate thrives in a role that blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution - someone who is energized by both producing sharp insights independently and elevating the work of a team
- Strategic Insights & Proactive Analytics (Primary Ownership):
- Own the development of forward‑looking, proactive insights that identify emerging risks, opportunities, and inflection points across the business
- Lead work that answers questions such as “Where are clouds forming on the horizon?” and “What should we be thinking about that no one is talking about yet?” by synthesizing trends across performance, customer behavior, competitive dynamics, and external macro signals
- Develop and monitor leading indicators and early‑warning metrics; ensure insights are actionable, clearly communicated, and tied to business decisions
- Frame ambiguous business questions, design analytical approaches, and guide work from hypothesis through executive‑ready recommendations
- Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leadership, influencing strategy through evidence‑based narratives rather than static reporting
- People Leadership & Team Management:
- Manage and develop a team of analysts responsible for:
- Historical performance analysis and lagging metrics
- Deep‑dive analysis into underserved or embedded business areas
- Targeted support for cross‑functional initiatives
- Act as a hands on coach, setting analytical direction, reviewing work, and modeling high standards for clarity, rigor, and storytelling
- Prioritize team workload to focus on the highest impact problems, aligned with company goals
- Provide clear feedback, mentorship, and growth opportunities for team members
- Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management:
- Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the organization
- Translate complex analyses into concise narratives – speak the business’s language
- Coordinate closely with other analytics teams and the data team to ensure alignment on definitions, metrics, and insights
- Represent analytics in strategic discussions, ensuring data meaningfully informs decisions
- Systems Thinking & External Perspective:
- Apply systems thinking to understand how decisions and changes cascade across the business
- Incorporate external context—competitive landscape, industry trends, and macroeconomic factors—into strategic analysis
- Identify structural gaps in data, measurement, or decision making processes and propose durable solutions
- WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:
- Leadership consistently relies on proactive insights to guide decisions
- The analytics team delivers work that is clearer, more strategic, and more impactful
- Complex, ambiguous problems are routinely translated into actionable recommendations
- Analytics is viewed as a strategic partner, not a reporting function
Our take
Dollar sales of meat are on the rise, with a growing consumer preference in the US for sustainably sourced, fairly bought meat. Subscription box purchases across DTC businesses are proving a runaway success, too. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that ButcherBox, a subscription meat company combining all these upwards trends, has been having a strong few years.
Given that ButcherBox hit upon a smart market niche, it is no surprise that competing startups are entering the space - and existing butchers are expanding to take a piece too. FarmFoods, for example, is a highly recommended rival, and Omaha Steaks saw substantial spikes in interest recently. That said, ButcherBox has continued to conduct a savvy marketing campaign that sees it win out on name recognition, and has allowed the company to bootstrap itself to over $600M in revenue and launch in Target.
Recently, the company expanded into the pet food market, capitalizing on its large base of pet-owning customers, a move that holds significant potential as a promising new venture. Additionally, the company made its first acquisition in Truffle Shuffle, a virtual cook-along platform. This acquisition is aimed at boosting consumer confidence across the US, particularly within the ButcherBox community. The company is going from success to success and it will be an exciting one to watch in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health: Our health benefits include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, an employer-funded HSA, and short & long-term disability benefits.
- Financial: We offer an annual bonus based on company performance, as well as a generous 401(k) match.
- Paid Time Off: Our unlimited PTO encourages you to take the time you need for the work-life balance that is right for you. We also offer 100% paid parental leave. We believe our best work is done when we have time to recharge.
- Wellness: We offer wellness benefits to both encourage and empower each employee to take the necessary time and action to care for themselves first. This includes fitness reimbursement, mental health counseling sessions, and a variety of other avenues of support for an employee’s whole self.
- Free Meat: When you join ButcherBox you become a member in more ways than one. Each employee gets a free monthly shipment of our custom box. That means you pick the cuts you want, the type of meat you want, and it’s 100% on us. And if you’re not a meat eater, you can ship your box to friends or family, and switch it up as often as you wish.
- Remote-Friendly, Flexible Working: ButcherBox is a flexible workplace. We we have a headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts, and we have some fully-remote team-members working from home all across the country. We ask that team-members local to the Boston area to come in at least once a week in an effort to build community and collaboration.
Company HQ
Watertown, MA
Leadership
Mike Salguero
(Founder & CEO)Mike previously co-founded CustomMade.com where he served as the CEO for 7 years.
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