Manager of Analytics & Strategy
$130k - $160k USD
About Us:
Read AI is building the storage of intelligence to drive the future of AI. Helping individuals and teams stay on track across meetings, email, messages, and every major productivity tool. We handle the mundane tasks like notes, scheduling, prioritization, and information sharing so people can focus on what matters.
Backed by $81M from Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital, we’re growing fast and looking for builders who want to shape the future of AI-powered work.
The Role:
We are seeking a Manager of Analytics and Strategy to own trusted product reporting, metric governance, and the semantic layer that powers business decision-making. This role is highly hands-on at the start, leading as an individual contributor who interprets product and customer data to surface clear insights, diagnose performance shifts, and recommend actions that drive adoption, retention, and revenue. Over time, this leader will build and develop a product analytics function, establishing the operating cadence, standards, and capabilities needed to scale consistent measurement, data integrity, and decision support across the company.
Responsibilities:
Product Reporting and Insights
Partner with Product and cross-functional leaders to define core product metrics/KPIs and measurement strategy (activation, engagement, retention, conversion, expansion).
Own recurring product performance reporting for weekly and monthly business reviews, translating results into clear narratives and decisions.
Build and maintain dashboards that surface trends, anomalies, and leading indicators; ensure metric definitions and instrumentation remain accurate and consistent.
Investigate performance changes, identify root causes, and communicate implications, tradeoffs, and actionable recommendations to inform product strategy and roadmap.
Data Integrity and Metric Governance
Own metric definitions and governance to ensure consistency across teams and reporting.
Implement data quality checks and monitoring for key datasets and KPIs.
Document metric logic, business rules, and data lineage for core reporting models.
Identify data gaps and instrumentation needs and drive resolution with cross-functional partners.
Semantic Layer Ownership and Engineering Partnership
Own the semantic layer that joins data, applies business logic, and produces curated datasets and metrics for analysis and dashboards.
Build and maintain analytics-ready data models that enable scalable insights and self-serve reporting (with the support of other Sr. Data Analyst)
Align with Engineering on data contracts, table availability, freshness expectations, and quality standards.
Partner with Engineering on a clear data ownership model, where Engineering is responsible for the pipelines and infrastructure that move raw data into the data lake and warehouse
Cross-Functional Decision Support
Partner with product, marketing, lifecycle, sales, and leadership to translate insights into actions and priorities.
Support segmentation, measurement plans, and experiment evaluation.
Surface churn risk and expansion signals using usage patterns and lightweight scoring approaches.
Deliver executive-ready readouts that connect product performance to decisions, tradeoffs, and next steps.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, or a related analytics and insights role.
Proven experience owning product performance reporting and translating trends into business actions.
Strong background working with product usage data tied to retention and revenue outcomes.
Proficiency in SQL and Excel; experience using Databricks and BI tools.
Demonstrated ownership of data quality, metric governance, and trusted reporting layers.
Strong communicator able to synthesize complex data into clear narratives and recommendations.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience owning a semantic layer or analytics modeling layer (for example dbt, LookML, or metric layers).
Experience with experimentation measurement, cohort analysis, or lifecycle analytics.
Familiarity with lightweight scoring approaches for churn risk and expansion readiness.
Why Read AI?
Innovative: We bring AI to the masses with proactive technology that acts as the ultimate AI assistant. Built on our proprietary, patented technology, Read AI takes notes, surfaces information, facilitates collaboration, and learns you, making individuals and teams more effective. We launched Operator to capture and analyze conversations wherever they happen: On the go, spontaneously, in your office hallway, and at a coffee shop.
We’ve also introduced our new desktop apps for Windows and macOS and our Android app, joining Read AI for iPhone and web.
Massive Impact: AI's greatest impact will be on the ability to allow people to do more, taking away mundane tasks, and guiding them to the next best action.
Growth Opportunities: Read AI is the fastest growing AI-copilot and meeting notetaker in history, and is one of the leading AI companies in the world, adding more than 1MM new customers every month. The company raised Series A and B in 2024, also was recognized as a Top Startup in Seattle by LinkedIn (2025), also notably a Top Company To Watch in 2025 by Inc Magazine, and is one of the Top AI Companies in Demand by Startups, according to a16z.
Leadership: Learn more about CEO and Co-Founder David Shim in this Fortune Good Life profile and listen to him share his vision for AI Agents, Digital Twins and the Future of Work. CTO and Co-Founder Rob Williams was recently anointed as one of the most disruptive leaders in AI. For more on our technology, Co-Founder and VP Data Science Elliott Waldron goes behind-the-scenes on our patents and models in this tech brief.
Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a diverse and talented team.
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $130,000 - $160,000 plus equity and benefits. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer low deductible health plans, as well as flexible time away and family leave programs.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.