Product Analyst

The role

The Product Analyst will help the product team make better decisions. You will improve understanding of the product, user base, and growth trajectory while partnering with PMs and engineers.

What you will do

• Take ownership of continuously improving understanding of the product, user base, growth trajectory, and state of play.
• Proactively partner with PMs and company leadership to inform strategy.
• Help the team define useful metrics and set clear goals.
• Share regular insightful updates with your team and across the company.
• Proactively partner with engineers to invest in clean and thorough logging, ETL, and improving the ergonomics of our data.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as analyst or in a similar technical role.
• Solid understanding of product growth concepts and frameworks (e.g. retention curves, cohort analysis, growth accounting).
• Advanced SQL knowledge, and familiarity with BI tools (Snowflake and Periscope).
• Strong data visualization and written/verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to design legible dashboards and clearly convey the salient insights for any analysis.
• Solid understanding of A/B test and experimentation concepts (proper test design, power calculation, post-hoc analysis, novelty effects, etc.).
• Strong product sense and intuition.
• Deep understanding of Substack’s product, user base, and market position is a must.
• Ability to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to be done with limited resources and support.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Trust & Safety and/or Sales and Partnerships data

Benefits

• market competitive salary
• equity for all full time roles
• exceptional benefits

About the company

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting, and most creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. Substack’s model, based on direct subscriptions, has fueled an explosion of independent publishing.