👋 Hi, I’m Kevin . I manage the Data team and our analytics products at Ashby. I’m hiring our first Data Analytics Manager at an important point in Ashby’s growth, and I hope you have the patience to read a job posting that may be a little unconventional.
You will manage Ashby’s three Data Analysts: two core analysts and one analyst focused on Revenue Operations. Our Data Engineer will initially continue to report directly to me, so this role is deliberately more focused on the analytical side of the team while remaining a close partner in the broader data ecosystem.
The primary result of your successful management will be a team of analysts with excellent judgment, strong technical methods, clear communication, and a deep sense of ownership. I am looking for someone who can help that team do better work, choose better work, and grow into the next stage of Ashby alongside the company.
Rather than begin with a long list of tools or years of experience, I want to share four questions that sit at the center of this role. If you apply, your answer should be “yes” to each. Should we get a chance to talk, what I will really want to understand is the nuance: your unique how, why, and what behind your answers.
These questions add up to a simple reality: Ashby is growing quickly, and the surrounding data needs are becoming more complex. We are becoming a multi-product, global company with more business systems and larger team dynamics. This is a great opportunity at a great company, but it will be hard and consequential work. I am looking for a manager who is excited to help shape the Data function and build an excellent team for its current and future members.
To understand the role, it helps to understand how our team works today.
Data Analysts at Ashby are full-stack members of the Data team. We do not have a traditional split where Analytics Engineers build models and Data Analysts perform analysis only on prepared datasets. Our analysts work across raw and modeled data, contribute to dbt models and metric definitions, conduct deep analysis, build dashboards and other internal data products, and collaborate directly with partners throughout the company.
As a rough sketch, the team receives work through a standardized request process. Anyone can make a request; we triage it, assess the actual need, and decide whether it can be addressed quickly or should become a more deliberate project with a kickoff and plan. We do not currently organize ourselves around universal SLAs, sprints, or points. Instead, we aim to be good partners: communicate clearly, assess capacity honestly, prioritize thoughtfully, and make deliberate choices about what not to do. You will have a lot of leverage in aiding this process well.
Ashby’s Operating Principles place principled thinking ahead of reflexively leaning on prior experience or convention. In practice, that means work at Ashby does not always start with “let’s get all the data and metrics.” Data is one useful tool for resolving uncertainty; it is not automatically the first or only tool. That said, as the company matures and more teams optimize their work, demand for data will likely continue to grow. You will help us meet that demand with good judgment.
At Ashby’s current size, this is a player-coach role. You should expect to get hands-on with analytical work as you learn the business and the team, and to remain close enough to the work to guide its quality well.
You could be a strong fit if you:
Naturally, this role is important and represents a combination of different skills. You may not meet every dimension perfectly, and that’s OK. If the dot product of your skill vector with this requirements vector is close to 1, please consider applying, but please note it does not have to be 1.0.
At Ashby, we draw a clear distinction between when to look to data for "the answer" and when to use data to aid principled thinking for decision making. In general, a primary consideration is whether or not data is needed to help clarify points of uncertainty. When data is considered necessary, a secondary consideration is to what depth data will be required. Data questions lend themselves to ongoing "what about..." or "what if..." explorations, which can be important in some situations but are not always necessary.
With these dynamics in mind, we do not foster an environment where every decision we make should be backed by data, but we do foster an environment where teammates ask whether or not data will fit the task at hand well. This, in turn, allows us to operate a lean team focused on projects where data provides true leverage to our overall business and product goals.
As a related but distinct point, Ashby’s data culture, as far as transparency and access goes, is very open. We share company-wide access to our financial standings, progress, goals, and generally make any data and reporting results broadly available. Outside of constraints related to whether a teammate has access to a particular tool, there are close to no constraints on access the state of the company as told by data or reporting. In general, we would like to continue and extend open access to data throughout the company (with your help!), but with consideration and not as a substitute for principled thinking :)
Our interview process is thorough, but we aim to be respectful of the total candidate time invested. We aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for Ashby and will provide ample information for you to determine if Ashby is the right fit for you. The expected process for this role is as follows:
Note: please do not reach out to the broader Ashby team requesting more information or time to connect. We will diligently review all applications in detail after the public posting period is over.
Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We’re being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up. I hope that excites you enough to apply.
If you've made it this far and are excited about Ashby, please apply and follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date!
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