Staff Data Analyst, Product

About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, Chick-fil-A, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.

Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

About the Role:

As a Staff Data Analyst at Vercel, you will play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable insights that drive key business decisions and product strategies. You'll collaborate across teams, working closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to translate complex data into meaningful narratives and self-service tools that improve operational efficiency and drive growth.

In this role, you will define and establish critical business metrics, automate reporting systems, and build scalable visualizations that enable stakeholders to track performance and discover new opportunities. Your work will influence the company’s strategic direction by uncovering deep insights from Vercel’s proprietary data and modeling new datasets to optimize our products' growth and reduce costs.

Working within a data-driven organization, you will prototype new analytical solutions, continuously improve workflows, and identify opportunities for innovation. Whether you’re developing key metrics, improving data access through analytical technologies, or identifying new analytical partnerships, you will ensure that Vercel’s teams have the data they need, when they need it, to succeed.

What You Will Do:

• Shape Strategic Insights: You will transform data into actionable insights that influence Vercel’s product and business strategies by establishing key metrics, building dynamic visualizations, and automating reporting workflows.
• Drive Operational Efficiency: You will develop metrics, self-service tools, and in-depth analyses that improve operational processes and enable data-driven decisions, continuously refining how we track performance across the organization.
• Identify and Address Opportunities: You will proactively uncover areas for improvement, such as streamlining reporting automation, conducting deep-dive analyses to address critical business questions, and establishing new analytical partnerships to unlock further growth.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: You will engage with product, business, and leadership teams to understand their goals, translating their needs into data-driven solutions that provide clarity and drive decision-making.
• Build Product Analytics Models: You will design and implement new analytics datasets using proprietary Vercel data to optimize growth strategies, reduce costs, and increase the impact of our product development efforts.
• Prototype and Innovate: You will rapidly prototype and iterate on dashboards and data tools to support workflow optimization across the product organization, discovering and promoting best practices for data usage and efficiency.
• Support Data Accessibility: You will develop and maintain the analytical technologies that empower all teams at Vercel to have timely, structured, and flexible access to the data they need, driving agility across the organization.
• Influence the Data Roadmap: You will shape the analytics roadmap by working closely with both the Data Analytics department and internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment between analytics efforts and broader company goals.

About You:

• You have 6+ years of experience in a Data Analyst, Product Analyst, Operations Analyst, Business Analyst, or a similar role
• You’re a SQL pro – and have tech industry experience analyzing nuanced datasets and writing your own complex queries
• You have professional familiarity with applied statistics and scripting languages like Python or R
• You have deep experience with ELT data modeling, especially with dbt; and building analytical narratives using modern BI tools like Hashboard, Looker, and Omni
• You have very strong executive communication skills and empathy to understand and discover business pain points and build solutions
• You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $164,000-$246,000. This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

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