Director, Data Analytics

The position is open to candidates with the right to work in the US or the UK.

Team Overview

The Data Strategy & Management organization is the central engine driving YouGov into a fully data-driven enterprise. Its mission is to collect, create, connect, and monetize data assets that power YouGov’s products, enhance customer value, and strengthen competitive advantage. We ensure that YouGov’s “living data” platform continues to evolve into an integrated, intelligent infrastructure — one that not only captures the voice of people around the world, but also seamlessly delivers that intelligence into the workflows of our clients.

Our Teams Are Organized Into Four Main Functions:

• Data Strategy & Innovation: Identify market opportunities and emerging data trends; decide which data to collect to drive industry value, product adoption, and customer retention.
• Data Integration: Work closely with our product and engineering teams to design and implement the modern data platform, ensuring interoperability and quality both within YouGov and amongst our customers.
• Data Governance: Determine and implement data standards, policies and procedures, working cross-functionally with our panel and engineering teams.
• Data Analytics: Ensure deep internal and external understanding of YouGov’s customer-facing data assets.

Together, these functions create a continuous feedback loop — aligning internal data capability with market opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

The Director of Data Analytics will lead the development and execution of YouGov’s global analytics strategy, ensuring that customer-facing data is not only collected and connected, but deeply understood and activated across the organization. This role is central to transforming YouGov’s “living data” into actionable intelligence that drives product innovation, business growth, and client success. Working at the intersection of data, insight, and strategy, the Director will lead a multidisciplinary analytics team, collaborate with customer success, product, research, and engineering partners, and advance the organization’s analytical capabilities to turn data into clear, evidence-based stories about people, behaviors, and trends.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the global analytics strategy aligned with YouGov’s data-driven vision.
• Develop standardized analytics frameworks, metrics, and methodologies for consistent insight generation.
• Support client-facing teams with analytics that showcase the value of YouGov’s data and help ensure customers understand the “why” behind our insights.
• Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Advance analytical capabilities through predictive modeling, automation, and data visualization.
• Lead and mentor a global analytics team; foster a culture of rigor, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Define and track KPIs for analytics performance, adoption, and business impact.
• Communicate insights and outcomes to senior leadership, promoting analytics as a strategic advantage.

What You Need To Know (technical & Behavioral Skills/Competencies):

• Expert-level SQL and data modelling skills, with the ability to personally review, optimize, and guide complex analytical queries.
• Hands-on experience designing and scaling modern analytics architectures (data warehouse, lake house, semantic layers).
• Proven ability to lead analytics implementations on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), balancing performance, cost, and reliability.
• Deep practical knowledge of BI and visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker), including dashboard design and metric governance.
• Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis, automation, and advanced analytical workflows.
• Strong command of ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics engineering best practices (e.g., dbt, Airflow, cloud-native tools).
• Solid grounding in statistics, experimentation, and analytical methods to support product and business decision-making.
• Experience partnering closely with data engineering and data science to operationalize analytics and ML-enabled insights.
• Ability to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for executives and cross-functional leaders.

What You’ll Bring:

• A strategic yet hands-on mindset, comfortable defining long-term vision and engaging deeply in data structure and collection details.
• A passion for connecting disparate data sources to tell coherent, insightful stories about people and behavior.
• The ability to make clear, evidence-based decisions about which data to collect and how to structure it for long-term value.
• A strong commitment to accuracy, transparency, and ethical data use, core to YouGov’s reputation for trusted insight.

For roles based in California, New York, Colorado or Washington State, the base salary hiring range for this position is $165K to $200K. Compensation offered will be determined by multiple factors including location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation and additional benefits. All US based full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Paid vacation, holidays and sick days.
• Flexible working arrangement available.
• Group medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities. Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov:

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do. We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

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