Vice President of Data and Analytics, Life360
Location sharing app for families
Job no longer available
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of deep expertise in data science, experimentation, and growth analytics for a mobile, subscription, or consumer tech company
- 5+ years in a senior leadership role overseeing analytics and data science functions, including managing managers, preferably in the mobile consumer tech space
- Extensive experience leading experimentation at scale and helping both analytics teams, and the business and product teams they support, improve experimentation practices
- Deep experience in statistical analysis, data mining, machine learning, and predictive modeling, with large data sets and distributed computing in a cloud based environment
- Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to translate data insights into actionable business recommendations and strategic initiatives, using visualization and storytelling to enroll others to follow through on these recommendations
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams, and influencing and collaborating with cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, marketing, and finance
- Demonstrated experience translating strategic business and product questions into a successful data and analytics roadmap
- Willingness and ability to roll up your sleeves get hands on when needed
- Strong command of analytics and visualization tools, such as Tableau and Amplitude
- Experience with big data platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) and cloud-based analytics solutions (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform) is highly desirable
- BS/MS in Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Physics, or related field preferred
What the job involves
- You will grow and develop analytics talent and tooling across domains, including product analytics, marketing analytics, and core business metrics, while increasing our acumen in experimentation and scaling our data science capabilities
- Your team will go beyond reporting on the data–they are uniquely qualified and empowered to make sense of billions of data points about how families move and interact to identify new ways to promote connection between family members, improve safety (on the road and off), and to find compelling ways to help the world understand the value of location sharing and the services we provide
- You will partner with product, marketing, engineering, and finance leadership to build a data strategy and use that data and the insights we derive from it to help inform our product, marketing, and overall business strategy
- Leadership: Nurture our growing analytics function, helping the team deepen their understanding of and impact on the business, and fostering a culture of empowerment, accountability, innovation, and excellence
- Data Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy, in partnership with engineering, and aligned with business objectives, ensuring the effective capture, storage, analysis, and utilization of data assets
- Insights and Storytelling: Utilize the latest analytics techniques to extract actionable insights from large and complex datasets, coupled with automation and self-service capabilities, to drive informed decision-making across all levels of the organization. Develop ways of communicating the meaning behind the data so that employees, investors, and the general public can leverage these insights
- Product and Marketing Experimentation: Collaborate closely with product and marketing teams to improve our experimentation methodology and velocity; identify opportunities for optimization and enhancement based on data-driven insights into user behavior, preferences, and trends
- Performance Measurement: Help to identify, measure, and automate reporting for key performance indicators (KPIs) and establish robust frameworks for measuring and monitoring the performance of products, features, and initiatives
- Forecasting and Modeling: Improve predictive models and forecasting methodologies to anticipate trends, user behavior patterns, and business performance, enabling proactive decision-making
Our take
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.1)
Trustpilot (2.5)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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