Vice President of Analytics, Insights & Research, Insider Inc.

• Experience and a deep understanding of the media industry and its current landscape
• Excellent analytical and data skills
• Outstanding communication skills. An ability to communicate complex topics concisely but without over-simplifying
• This person is a leader in the newly established strategy and operations team, and a central point of reference and excellence for analysts across the organization
• This person is a world-class communicator who is comfortable explaining research, data and insights to Insider’s executive team through memos, decks, and off-the-cuff in high-level meetings

• Business Insider is hiring a VP Analytics, Insights & Research to work closely with our SVP Strategy & Operations on pivotal processes, decisions and strategies that will drive the company’s growth
• The Strategy & Operations team’s mission is to create and help operationalize actionable and data informed initiatives across the organization based on BI’s vision and strategy
• Its goals are to establish and improve aligned and clear strategies, actionable and sound analytics, and operational excellence across the entire organization
• The Strategy & Operations team is made up of the Analytics, Insights & Research team and a Project Management Office
• Within BI’s Strategy & Operations team, the VP Analytics will lead and build the analytics, insights and research function and team
• The VP will work with the Project Management team and other business leaders to set goals and inform decision making based on data and competitive intelligence
• The analytics, insights and research team directly oversees the editorial analytics and insights teams and has a dotted line to analytics teams in other business functions
• Set the benchmark for data integrity, actionable insights and reports, and testing
• The VP, Analytics reports directly into the SVP, Strategy & Operations and sits on the Strategy & Operations team
• Be responsible for aligning goals and KPIs to overall and departmental strategy and objective
• Establish dotted lines to other analytics operators in the organization to create a hub and spoke model for analytics
• Own engagement goal-setting for the editorial team, helping to create ambitious but achievable engagement goals across the newsroom at all levels based on opportunity and business need
• Consistently evaluate workflow and communication channels to identify areas where we can improve tooling and logistics for greater efficiency
• Develop dashboards to optimize both tactical and strategic decision making
• Work with product & technology team and operational units to consistently improve data integrity, access and utility
• Analyze demographics and psychographics of our audience in depth informing strategies for both the newsroom and business units
• Build centralized traffic competence center to predict traffic patterns and triage issues based on velocity and different sources of traffic
• Create process of competitive benchmarking and rigor across newsroom, business and product

• Work from home opportunities
• Unlimited vacation
• Generous family leave policy
• 401k with match

Total funding: $55.6m

Insider - that entered the market at roughly the same time as fellow digital news and media names Buzzfeed, Vice, and HuffPost - has steadily and solidly built itself into one of the most familiar digital platforms for business, current affairs, finance and tech news.