Senior Director, Analytics and Data Science, Core Product & Growth
Life360Remote, USA; Remote, Canada · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$247,000 – $366,000
Listed on Life360’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a 60+ person analytics and data science organization focused on understanding user acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention at a consumer platform serving over 100 million monthly active users. This role suits experienced analytics or data science leaders who have built measurement frameworks from scratch, embedded their teams into product strategy, and want to shape how an organization adopts AI-native practices.
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years in analytics, data science, or decision science
- 5+ years in senior people management
- Deep expertise in inferential and causal analytics
- Expert knowledge of engagement, retention, churn, and cohort metrics
- Experience forecasting a company-level metric and being held accountable
- SQL and Python or R
- Experience with Databricks, third-party experimentation tools, and BI tools
- Hands-on use of coding agents like Claude Code in your own analytical work
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Track record moving an analytics team from reactive to embedded
- Experience coaching analysts into leadership roles
- Analysis driven by hypothesis rather than data requests
- Built and enforced analytical standards across a team
- Curiosity about behavioral drivers, not just past actions
- Ability to decide what the team does not work on
Nice to have
- Familiarity with experiment design to account for network effects
- Master's degree or PhD in social science, psychology, or behavioral science
- Experience leading a team embedded with product and engineering
- Experience in a B2C subscription business