Director of Analytics

About Blackthorn Labs

Blackthorn Labs is a 14-person software shop in Dubai. The founders still answer support tickets. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Job summary

We are adding a Director of Analytics to our Business Intelligence team. Analyst role with a mix of recurring reporting and project work. Most of your day will be in SQL, Excel and Power BI or Tableau.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse trends, cohorts and funnel drop-off and summarise findings in plain language
• Track sales, inventory or service levels against targets and flag misses early
• Field ad hoc requests through a ticket queue and prioritise them with your manager
• Write SQL queries against the data warehouse to pull and join data for analysis
• Create forecasts and simple models in Excel or Google Sheets
• Investigate data quality issues and work with data engineering to fix them at the source
• Automate recurring Excel reports with Power Query, Python or scheduled SQL
• Build and maintain dashboards in Tableau, Power BI or Looker

Requirements

• Able to juggle several requests and say when a deadline isn't realistic
• Strong SQL (joins, CTEs, aggregations, window functions)
• Bachelor's degree in statistics, economics, business, math or a related field
• Advanced Excel: pivot tables, XLOOKUP, Power Query
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Google Analytics 4 or Adobe Analytics
• Python (pandas) or R for analysis
• Tableau Desktop Specialist or Microsoft PL-300 certification

Perks and benefits

Rate: AED 34,000 - AED 38,000 monthly

• Medical insurance
• 30 days annual leave
• Annual bonus
• Tax-free salary
• End of service gratuity
• Annual flight ticket
• Visa provided

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Blackthorn Labs.