Lead Data Analyst

What We Do Matters
At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We're united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

About The Role And Our Team
The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to drive analytics for the Marketplace Zone. As a senior member of our Data Science & Analytics organization, you'll provide strategic analytical leadership, guiding both tactical insights and long-term data strategy to maximize marketplace performance. You'll operate with broad autonomy to define metrics, design scalable reporting, and lead analytical investigations that drive clarity, alignment, and measurable business impact across cross-functional teams focused on the marketplace.

As the primary analytics partner for the Marketplace Zone, you'll ensure decision-makers have access to trustworthy data, robust KPIs, and actionable insights. You'll partner closely with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and fellow analysts to deliver data-driven recommendations that inform product strategy and marketplace growth initiatives.

Responsibilities
Business Performance Investigation

• Lead deep-dive analyses into performance trends, identifying root causes and key opportunities.
• Serve as the go-to resource for urgent, high-priority business questions that require data-backed answers.
• Deliver recommendations and findings in concise, executive-friendly formats.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Serve as a key analytics partner to teams across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Translate business questions into structured analyses, and help teams interpret results with appropriate context and caveats.
• Contribute to shared metrics and reporting resources that promote transparency and alignment across teams.

Metrics Definition & Governance

• Develop, document, and maintain clear, consistent metric definitions within a centralized semantic layer (i.e. Cube).
• Partner with business and data stakeholders to align on KPI logic and ensure consistent usage across reports and dashboards.
• Contribute to processes that ensure metrics are version-controlled, certified, and discoverable.

Reporting & Dashboarding

• Build and maintain high-quality dashboards and reports that support product teams and product leadership.
• Ensure reporting outputs reflect the most current and accurate data definitions.

Operational Analytics Excellence

• Help establish and champion best practices for metric design, dashboard development, and data quality validation.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to ensure analytics models and data pipelines meet stakeholder needs.
• Stay up to date with changes in source systems and contribute to QA/testing efforts to ensure data accuracy.

Successful Lead Data Analyst Candidates Have

• Exceptional analytical thinking, problem-solving, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to operate with minimal direction while managing multiple priorities.
• Strong track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with or within a Product team, including partnering closely with product managers, familiarity working with behavioral event data (e.g. Segment), and defining product usage metrics.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake).
• Proficiency with BI tools (e.g., Preset, Metabase, Mixpanel).
• Experience with metrics layer tools (e.g., dbt, Cube) in a governed reporting environment.
• 5-7 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, or a related data role.

Work Model
This role is -eligible and based near one of our office hubs. Starting September 15, 2025, you'll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.

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At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life's most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.

What We Love About You

• Commit to our customers: You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.
• Raise the bar: You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.
• Be all in: You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.
• Celebrate impact: You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way. You love to win, together.

What You Love About Us
We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter, both in and out of the office.. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

is our approach to hybrid work.
It's designed to support how we work best: combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is -eligible or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.

• For -eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
• For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.

To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.

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