Director, Internal Analysis

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build

By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next Learn more at mixpanel.com .

About the Team

Internal Analysis is the data team at Mixpanel — the team that turns data from every corner of the business into the decisions that shape our product and our growth. They own the full path: from raw data in source systems, through a governed warehouse, to the models, metrics, and insights leaders across the company act on.

Its two complementary disciplines under one roof Our Analytics Engineers own the data end to end — ingesting from source systems, modeling through a medallion architecture on BigQuery, and producing the trusted tables and reporting artifacts the rest of the company runs on

Our Data Scientists build on that foundation, partnering with Product to refine the user experience and with GTM to sharpen how we grow — inspecting signals, running experiments, and surfacing the insights that change what we do next.

About the Role

Youll lead this team — and help shape Mixpanels data culture Were looking for someone who can influence the organization to become more metrics-driven: establishing clear KPIs, helping teams define success upfront, and ensuring analytics and data science are engaged as strategic partners from the start of an initiative, not brought in at the end to validate decisions already made

As we grow the data organizations remit across the company, this role has the scope to establish practices that dont yet exist, KPI ownership, cross-functional operating rhythms, a shared standard for what data-driven means here, and where AI belongs in both how the team works and what the platform delivers

It takes building real trust with cross-functional leaders to make any of it stick.

This role reports directly into the executive team, reflecting the strategic priority were placing on data as a company.

The role blends technical leadership, people development, and business judgment. Youll own the technical bar for how we ingest, model, govern, and instrument our data, coach senior ICs through ambiguous questions, and make sure the teams work lands — that the signals we surface actually change what the company does.

Were posting this role open to either Senior Manager or Director level, with final leveling based on the candidates experience and scope.

• Strong Senior Managers ready for a step-up are encouraged to apply alongside seasoned Director-level candidates.

Responsibilities

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