Manager of Data Analytics, Plex
$100-170k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Movie & TV streaming platform
Posted today
Movie & TV streaming platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
$100-170k
+ Stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a global community for streaming content that people can depend on to easily discover, experience, and share all of the entertainment that matters to them.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7–10 years of experience in Analytics and Data Science, including experience leading or mentoring analysts — and you still love doing the work yourself
- You have expert-level SQL skills and experience pulling insights from large, complex datasets — preferably using Google BigQuery
- You're proficient with modern BI and visualization tools (Looker preferred, or Tableau/Power BI or similar)
- You have working knowledge of Python or R for statistical analysis, and a solid grounding in experimentation methodology and statistics
- You have readily embraced the latest AI tools (LLMs, AI coding assistants, agentic workflows) as a core part of how you work, and you're curious about how they keep changing the craft
- You're technically competent and deeply curious — no detail is too small, no dataset too messy, and no question goes unexamined
- You have experience partnering with data engineering teams on data modeling, pipelines, and data quality, and you know how to be a great customer of a data platform
- You have excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, and are comfortable presenting insights and recommendations to executives
- You're highly organized with strong prioritization skills, able to juggle multiple — and at times conflicting — priorities and stakeholder needs
- You're opinionated about the metrics that matter for a consumer streaming and subscription business — experience in streaming, entertainment, or consumer subscription products is a plus
- You are kind, humble, helpful and enjoy getting stuff done
- You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe
- You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall
- You are hungry to have an impact, continuously working to improve our product, process and push the team to be its best
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on analytics leader to join our Product team as Manager, Data Analytics. Reporting to the VP of Product Management, this person will lead our Data Analytics function — setting the direction and strategy for the team while personally driving the majority of our most important analysis work
- This is a true player-coach role: we expect roughly 80% of your time to be spent on hands-on analytical work, with the remaining 20% on team management, strategic alignment, and presenting to senior leadership. You'll partner closely with our Data Engineering team, who own and maintain our data pipeline, and with Product, Growth, and Marketing stakeholders across the company. We are a remote-first company and foster an environment based on kindness, humility, transparency, and helpfulness
- Personally deliver data-driven insights, recommendations, and deep-dive analyses that shape product, growth, and business decisions — from framing the question through presenting the answer
- Design and analyze experiments and A/B tests, bringing statistical rigor to how we evaluate product and growth initiatives
- Develop, maintain, and improve the dashboards and reports the company relies on to measure and manage KPIs — including acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization metrics
- Own the definitions and governance of our core business metrics, ensuring a trusted, single source of truth across the company
- Set the overall direction, strategy, and roadmap for the Data Analytics team, ruthlessly prioritizing requests from Product, Growth, Marketing, and Engineering
- Manage, mentor, and develop the data analysts on the team, raising the bar on analytical quality and craft
- Partner closely with Data Engineering on data models, pipeline improvements, instrumentation, and data quality — advocating for the datasets and tooling the analytics team needs
- Embrace and champion AI tools throughout the analytics workflow — using them daily to accelerate query development, analysis, and reporting, and helping the team and company adopt them effectively
- Enable self-serve analytics so stakeholders can answer routine questions themselves, freeing the team for higher-leverage work
- Communicate findings clearly and persuasively to senior leadership and executives, and support our company-wide OKR process with sound measurement
Our take
Plex is a streaming media platform aiming to simplify how users access entertainment. As well as offering its own deep library of movies, series, and live TV channels, it has expanded its product by turning into a single interface for paid subscription services. So, if a user subscribes to Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video, for example, they can search and access content from all these services in one place on Plex.
Given the competition in the subscription streaming services market, as well as the common user pain points such as time waste while searching, this so-called “Discover” feature is seeing the company’s popularity soar. The fact that Plex is the first streaming company to do this serves as quite an advantage, but it may not be long until others follow suit.
Plex has been profitable since 2014, five years after the company’s launch, and has invested more recent funding into mass scaling. The rollout hasn’t been without its UX complaints, but if the company can smooth out these issues as it scales, it could enjoy a period of even more significant growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Feb 2022
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $86m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote & Global
- Flexible PTO & Fridays!
- Fun Travel to Amazing Places
- Charitable Giving/Matching
- Up to 16 weeks maternity leave/birthing parent leave plus 4 weeks part-time hours at full pay in a step-in program afterwards which allows returning members to ease back into their job
- Up to 6 weeks parental leave (non-birthing parents) which includes surrogacy and adoption
- 4 weeks of leave for the loss of a loved one
- Hardware Stipend up to $4000
- $125 each month toward a range of activities encouraging both physical and mental health
- Employees can receive a complimentary Calm app subscription
- Stock Options
- Competitive Health Benefits & Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Leadership
Scott Olechowski
(Co-Founder & CPO)Prior to co-founding Plex in 2009, Scott was a Manager of Business Development at Cisco for 13 years and a VP of Business Development at PostX for 6 years.
Keith Valory
(CEO, President & Board Member)Prior to joining Plex in 2013, Keith was the COO at Bracket Computing. Before that, they spent 5 years at Cisco working in Product Management and Strategy & Business Development.
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