Senior Product Analyst

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">At AoPS, data plays a critical role in how we design, build, and improve our products. We serve tens of thousands of students worldwide through digital platforms that support discovery, enrollment, learning, and ongoing engagement. These products generate rich behavioral and operational data, but that data only creates value when it drives better decisions.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">We are hiring a Senior Product Analyst to serve as a core strategic partner to the Product team. This is an individual contributor role for someone with deep expertise in product metrics, user behavior analysis, and experimentation. The role exists to sharpen our understanding of how users interact with our products, surface actionable insights, and ensure every product decision is grounded in evidence. The Senior Product Analyst is, above all, an advocate for our users. They use data to understand how students and families actually experience our products.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to define success, evaluate product changes, and help AoPS build experiences that deliver real value to students and families.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>The Senior Product Analyst will:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Act as the primary analytics partner for the AoPS Product teams, supporting product strategy, roadmap decisions, and feature evaluation</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proactively identify opportunities, risks, and trends in product data, surfacing insights without waiting for explicit requests</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Define, own, and evolve product metrics (including north-star metrics, leading indicators, and guardrail metrics), ensuring alignment and consistent interpretation across teams</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Translate product goals into clear measurement plans: testable hypotheses, success metrics, and tracking requirements</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests and other experiments (e.g., feature rollouts, holdout tests) to rigorously measure the impact of product changes and guide iteration</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Conduct deep-dive analyses of user behavior, funnels, retention, and engagement to uncover the "why" behind key product trends</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build and maintain dashboards and self-service reporting that empower product managers and stakeholders to answer their own questions</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner with engineering to ensure reliable, well-instrumented event tracking across products</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Use SQL to extract, transform, and analyze large datasets from our data warehouse</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Communicate findings clearly, influencing product prioritization and direction through data-backed recommendations, reports, and presentations</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Establish and promote best practices for product analytics, experimentation, and metric integrity across the organization</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>The ideal candidate has:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">5+ years of experience in product analytics, growth analytics, or a related quantitative role, with demonstrated impact on product decisions</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Advanced SQL skills and experience querying large datasets from cloud data warehouses. We use Redshift</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with Python (e.g., pandas, scipy, statsmodels) for data analysis and statistical work</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Deep familiarity with product analytics platforms and event-based data models. We use Mixpanel</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proven ability to design, run, and interpret A/B tests, including a solid understanding of statistical significance, power analysis, and common experimentation pitfalls</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience defining and owning product metrics and building organizational alignment around them</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong ability to analyze user behavior (funnels, retention, segmentation, cohort analysis) and translate findings into clear product recommendations</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency building dashboards and self-service reporting tools. We use Lightdash</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proven ability to operate as a strategic thought partner to the product and leadership teams, building trust and influence across engineering, design, and business stakeholders</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical audiences</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Comfort owning work end-to-end, from raw data through executive-level recommendations</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Bonus points for:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Familiarity with analytics data modeling and transformations. We use dbt</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with quasi-experimental methods (difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity) for causal inference when experiments aren't feasible</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience contributing to event tracking schemas and instrumentation plans</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Background in edtech, consumer software, or subscription products</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Why Join AoPS:</strong> This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this position is 150k-180k. Here are some things you can look forward to:</p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Impact:</strong> As the Senior Product Analyst, you will be the driving force behind data-informed product decisions at AoPS, helping shape experiences that serve tens of thousands of students and families and directly advancing AoPS's mission to discover, inspire, and train the next generation of great problem solvers</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Flexibility:</strong> Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Benefits:</strong> Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Future Planning:</strong> 401(k) with company match</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Quality of Life:</strong> PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Ease of Transition:</strong> Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Background Check:</strong> Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Work Authorization:</strong> Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>About AoPS:</strong> Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.</p>