Tava Health is seeking a Director of Strategy and Analytics to elevate how our mission-driven company uses data. As the senior-most data leader, you will own the vision, set priorities, and ensure our data is accurate and actionable. You will lead a small team while directly delivering key analyses and insights, working closely with the executive team to shape company strategy.
What You'll Do
- Partner with leadership to identify and prioritize the most impactful analytics initiatives.
- Proactively surface new opportunities to use data to improve business performance, spotting trends, risks, and insights.
- Prioritize incoming data requests based on strategic fit and challenge assumptions.
- Define and communicate a clear roadmap for the data team, aligned with company goals.
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations tailored to different audiences.
- Guide the team in uncovering deeper drivers and the 'so what' behind results.
- Directly produce high-quality analyses and dashboards to meet critical priorities.
- Manage, mentor, and develop our Senior Data Analyst and grow the team as it expands.
- Collaborate with data engineering to design and maintain scalable, reliable data infrastructure.
- Establish clear analytical best practices, sense-check outputs for accuracy, and resolve data integrity issues.
- Create the processes, tools, and governance to scale the analytics function.
- Establish a single source of truth for key metrics by organizing and maintaining our reporting tools.
- Develop and maintain a company-wide data dictionary and consistent metric definitions.
- Implement processes to proactively identify and address schema or data source changes.
- Establish processes for regularly auditing and deprecating outdated reports and dashboards.
- Operate with the mindset of a product manager for data — scoping requests and managing trade-offs.
- Translate business problems into data questions, delivering insights that drive measurable outcomes.
- Communicate trade-offs, timelines, and limitations effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- Background in strategy, analytics, or data leadership.
- Proven ability to influence strategy through data, driving changes that generate measurable business impact.
- Skilled at leading and mentoring analysts while producing high-quality analyses yourself.
- Strong SQL skills required.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and storytelling skills.
- Highly organized, process-driven, and comfortable building structure in an ambiguous environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience in management consulting or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.
- Python, R, or similar as a plus.
- Experience managing BI/analytics tools like Tableau or Metabase.
- Familiarity with dbt.
- Startup experience.
Technical Stack
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Tableau
- Metabase
- dbt
Team & Environment
You will lead a small but high-impact data team, managing and mentoring a Senior Data Analyst, and report directly to the executive team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Fully-covered medical and dental premiums for you and your family.
- Free, generous Tava mental health benefit.
- Monthly HSA contributions for qualifying enrolled employees.
- Generous PTO and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Weekly company-paid lunch via DoorDash and a personal DashPass subscription.
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a high-growth, mission-driven company.
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates located in: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Utah.
Tava Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law.
