Data Analytics Lead – Start-up Payments Company

📍 Location: New York (Hybrid)

🕒 Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

💰 Salary: Competitive, with Equity Options

The Company

We’re working with a fast-growing, venture-backed payments start-up that’s redefining how small businesses send, receive, and manage money across borders. With a mission to make payments faster, fairer, and radically simpler, they’re already processing millions in transactions monthly — and they’re just getting started.

Based in New York with a global outlook, this company is on a rocketship trajectory and is looking for the kind of people who thrive in high-growth, high-impact environments.

The Role

As Data Analytics Lead, you’ll be the company’s go-to for turning raw data into actionable insights. You’ll work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Executive teams to uncover trends, guide decisions, and define metrics that really move the needle.

This is a greenfield opportunity — you’ll shape the data culture from the ground up and set the standard for how data is used across the business.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build and own the analytics function end-to-end: from tracking strategy to dashboards to deep dives.
• Partner with leadership to define KPIs and translate business questions into data-driven answers.
• Design scalable data models and reporting systems that grow with the business.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure clean, trustworthy data pipelines.
• Enable teams with self-serve analytics while diving deep on high-impact problems yourself.
• Tell compelling stories with data that inspire action across the org.
• Champion a data-first mindset across the business.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in a data analytics or data science role, ideally with early-stage start-up experience.
• Expertise in SQL and experience with modern BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Metabase, etc.).
• Strong business acumen and the ability to work across departments and influence non-technical stakeholders.
• A passion for metrics and a sixth sense for when something doesn’t add up.
• Experience in the payments, fintech, or SaaS space is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and excited by the idea of building things from scratch.