Data Analytics Team Lead
Posted 16 Sep 2026
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
No salary listed for this role.
Who Connecteam is:
Connecteam is the leading platform for managing deskless teams, trusted by over 80,000 businesses worldwide.
We built Connecteam for real operators - the people running shifts, jobs, and teams across stores and sites. The kind of work that doesn’t happen behind a desk, and doesn’t have time for messy spreadsheets, scattered group chats, or tools that don’t talk to each other.
Connecteam brings daily operations and team communication into one intuitive app - from hiring and scheduling to training, tasks, and day-to-day coordination. It gives teams the clarity and control to run the day, shift after shift, job after job.
Backed by $220M+ from Insight Partners, Stripes, and Tiger Global, Connecteam is rapidly expanding worldwide - empowering frontline teams to work smarter, stay connected, and operate with greater efficiency.
About the role
Connecteam is looking for an AI-native Data Analytics Team Lead to lead our analytics team and shape how data is used to drive business decisions across the company.
This is a hands-on leadership role combining people management, strong business understanding, and technical leadership. You will lead and develop a team of analysts, set technical and analytical standards, own the team’s priorities, and partner with stakeholders and senior leadership on high-impact initiatives.
You and your team will work primarily with dbt, BigQuery, Looker, and GitHub, while using AI-enabled tools such as Cursor, MCP integrations, n8n, and OpenClaw to automate workflows and scale how the team works.
Success in this role requires strong leadership, technical depth, business understanding, and the ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of Data Analysts, including setting goals, providing feedback, and supporting their professional growth.
- Own the team’s priorities and analytical roadmap, ensuring the team focuses on the highest-impact business needs.
- Define and drive technical and analytical standards across data modeling, SQL, dbt, testing, code reviews, and BI.
- Partner with stakeholders and senior leadership to understand business needs, define KPIs, and translate data into actionable recommendations.
- Lead high-impact analyses and guide the development of reliable, scalable data models and Looker dashboards.
- Ensure data quality and lead investigations into anomalies, tracking issues, and inconsistent metrics.
- Drive AI-native ways of working by turning repeatable analyses and processes into reusable, automated workflows.
- Stay hands-on with data, code, and analysis when tackling complex or high-impact problems.
Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in business, growth, or data analytics within a fast-paced SaaS or web company, including 2+ years of direct people management experience leading a team of Data Analysts.
- Strong business understanding and the ability to translate business needs into clear analytical priorities and actionable insights.
- Strong technical leadership and experience establishing analytics and engineering best practices.
- Advanced SQL and production experience with dbt, including data modeling, testing, lineage, and CI.
- Experience with Git-based development and code review workflows.
- Experience building decision-oriented dashboards in Looker or a comparable BI platform.
- Practical experience using AI agents in analytical or engineering workflows.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
- A proactive, hands-on approach and the ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-moving environment.
Nice to have
- Experience designing and implementing a governed semantic layer.
- Python.
- Experience with statistics, experimentation, or A/B testing.
- Experience with B2B, multi-tenant SaaS businesses.
- Experience building agent skills, n8n workflows, Cursor projects, or internal data agents.
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Joining Connecteam Is The Smart Move:
- We build our people up. Every team member is treated as a long-term investment and we recognize the value in always nurturing and training them so they can go above and beyond in their skills and job duties.
- We make an impact on our customer’s business. We are on a mission to provide managers of all business types and sizes with the tools they need to communicate, operate, engage, and run their deskless workforce. Our product offers them an effective and affordable solution to run their business.
- We get the job done. Connecteam employees are passionate in executing their job duties so they can drive the company forward and provide real value to our customers.
- We have fun! From weekly happy hours to holiday parties, we always enjoy each other’s company (and good food, of course). Connecteam is like one big, happy family!
- Everyone is welcome. Connecteam is committed to building an encouraging, caring, and supportive environment. We share a responsibility to support our team and enrich their lives.