Senior Data Manager (Growth Product Insights)

• Join the data leadership team at The Athletic, the premier sports media division of The New York Times, and take ownership of a data pod. This is a critical data role that sits at the intersection of sports, digital subscriptions, and data strategy. This person will play a crucial role in advancing our analytics team to the next phase of development to help implement a best in class analytics practice
• We are seeking a Senior Manager, Analytics to lead and scale our Growth Product Insights practice. Following our recent migration to a modern data warehouse, you will act as a pivotal player-coach—bringing deep analytical rigor, defining key performance indicators, and guiding a growing team of data analysts. You will lead by example, building analytical models yourself while developing the talent around you to turn complex subscriber and product data into high-leverage business decisions
• Lead as a Player-Coach: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Data Analysts. Model analytical rigor, evaluate statistical approaches, and actively contribute to hands-on execution on ambiguous, high-stakes projects
• Drive Proactive Insights: Shift the team’s mindset from reactive “service analytics” and dashboard maintenance to proactive strategic inquiry. Focus on answering the “why” behind performance metrics and translating data into concrete business recommendations
• Act as a Strategic Data Partner: Embed with Product, Design, and Growth leaders as a thought partner to influence roadmap strategy, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and establish clear learning objectives before work begins
• Advance Experimentation & Measurement: Oversee product experimentation (A/B testing), causal inference, and behavioral/cohort modeling across digital destinations and app ecosystems, ensuring guardrails and success metrics are rigorously defined
• Build Trust in Data: Partner with upstream data and engineering teams to understand data pipelines, navigate complexity, and establish standardized, trusted metric definitions across the organization
• Leverage Modern Tools & AI: Integrate cutting-edge data tools and modern generative AI capabilities into daily workflows to streamline routine tasks, accelerate analysis, and increase overall team capacity
• Embrace Our Mission: Demonstrate strong commitment to our values, journalistic independence, and the broader mission of The New York Times Company

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401 (k)
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Free Subscription
• Competitive Health Care
• HSA & FSA
• Commuter Benefits

• 1–3+ years of experience formally managing, leading, or mentoring data scientists or analysts, with a track record of elevating analytical judgment in others
• Familiarity with version control workflows (Git, Github, code reviews)highly preferred
• 7+ years of progressive experience in data analytics, product analytics, or applied quantitative roles delivering reporting, analysis, and strategic insight
• Experience with modern BI / Data Visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Mode
• Strong background in experimentation (A/B testing), causal inference, and cohort/retention modeling within a digital subscription or media environment
• Proficiency in Python or R for statistical modeling, data manipulation, and deeper quantitative analysis
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a quantitative field (Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Applied Math, or related field) highly preferred
• Experience navigating upstream data complexity and working with high-volume, real-time event data highly preferred
• Expertise in SQL and experience working with large-scale relational databases / modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Passion for sports media and digital publishing highly preferred
• Experience in digital media or subscription-based business model highly preferred