Who we are: 

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop Rover's Product Analytics team, including analysts and analytics managers, with a focus on judgment, technical depth, and business impact

• Set the analytics agenda for the product organization and connect it to company priorities, marketplace health, customer experience, and long-term growth

• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and executive leaders to identify the highest-value questions, frame tradeoffs, and shape roadmap and operating decisions

• Establish clear metric frameworks for product and marketplace performance, including definitions, instrumentation expectations, reporting standards, and regular readouts for leaders

• Raise the bar for experimentation at Rover: guide test design, statistical rigor, interpretation, and follow-through so experiments inform real decisions

• Stay close to the technical work by reviewing analyses, writing or reading SQL as needed, pressure-testing assumptions, and coaching the team on better analytic methods

• Work with Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure to improve data quality, modeling, tooling, and self-service access for product and business teams

• Build the habits that help analytics drive change across the company, from stronger narratives and decision forums to better education for non-analytics partners

• Hire, coach, and grow a team that can balance deep analysis with pragmatic business judgment

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a closely related field, with significant time supporting product, growth, marketplace, or consumer technology teams

• 5+ years of experience leading analytics teams, including experience managing managers and developing senior individual contributors

• Strong product and business judgment; you can move from customer behavior to company-level implications without losing the details

• Expert-level SQL and fluency with a modern analytics stack, including data warehouses, BI tools, product analytics platforms, and experimentation tools

• Comfort writing analysis code in Python, R, or a similar language when the work calls for it

• Deep understanding of experimentation, metric design, causal reasoning, and the common ways analyses can mislead decision-makers

• Experience improving data foundations, including event instrumentation, metric definitions, data quality, and analytics workflows

• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and changing business or product direction through clear analysis and strong communication

• Experience hiring, coaching, and raising technical standards for analysts and analytics managers

• Marketplace, e-commerce, subscription, or other scaled consumer product experience is strongly preferred

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field is helpful, but not required

Benefits of Working at Rover:

• Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout

• Pension plan

• Private medical insurance

• 25 days PTO

• Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)

• Gym membership

• €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet

• Annual €150 wellness reimbursement

• Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time

• Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going

• Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more

• Dog-friendly office

Compensation:

In the greater Barcelona area the first-year salary range is €96,623 - €123,677 with a 15% bonus. Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.
The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.