Analytics Team Lead

Location: Overwolf's lair (IL)

Experience Level: Management

Description

We’re on the hunt for a data-driven leader to scale our analytics impact and guide a high-performing team toward sharper insights and smarter decisions.

As our Analytics Guild Master, you’ll balance hands-on analytical depth with people leadership – mentoring analysts, refining best practices, and turning complex business questions into clear, actionable insights. Working closely with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Data Engineering, you’ll ensure data doesn’t just inform decisions – it drives them.

So if you thrive on turning raw data into strategic advantage, love developing talented analysts, and believe great insights deserve great storytelling – this quest has your name on it.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead analytical initiatives across business intelligence, performance metrics, financial analysis, user behavior research, experimentation analysis, and operational reporting.
• Write complex SQL queries in Snowflake to conduct deep analyses and validate team outputs.
• Build and maintain high-quality dashboards and visualizations using Tableau and Redash.
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Marketing, and leadership to define and answer critical business questions.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of analysts while reviewing their work and providing constructive coaching.
• Lead hiring efforts and foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture.
• Serve as the bridge between business and technical teams by defining data requirements, documenting business logic, and helping prioritize the data engineering roadmap.
• Establish and uphold standards for SQL practices, dashboard design, and data documentation.
• Ensure analytics initiatives align with broader company objectives and strategic priorities.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in business analytics or similar roles.
• 2-3 years of people management experience leading analytical teams.
• Strong ability to balance hands-on analytical execution with team leadership.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate business objectives into measurable frameworks.
• Advanced SQL proficiency, including complex queries, joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization in Snowflake.
• Expert-level experience building dashboards and data visualizations in Tableau.
• Experience working with SQL-based reporting tools such as Metabase, Apache Superset, or Redash.
• Strong understanding of business statistics, A/B testing, and experimentation analysis.

Bonus Points

• Experience with ETL and ELT processes and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Experience administering Tableau Server, including user management, permissions, and performance optimization.
• Background in predictive analytics methodologies.
• Hands-on experience developing data pipelines in low-code platforms such as Rivery.
• Passion for gaming.
• Ability to query, clarify, and quantify before that second cup of coffee kicks in.