Director, Business Analytics

We’re Underdog.

The fastest-growing sports gaming company, ever. We’re here to make sports more fun. We pair intuitive user experiences with innovative game designs to build the best experience for sports fans in America.

Since 2020, we’ve launched four of today’s most widely played fantasy games, and built the Underdog Sportsbook entirely in-house with our own tech. We move fast, act with urgency, and create experiences you won’t find anywhere else.

With a $1.2 billion valuation and backing from investors like BlackRock, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, Adam Schefter, and more, we’re just getting started.

At Underdog, we play and win as a team. We take chances and are unafraid to attack hard problems. We face challenges with ambition and optimism. We play for the love of the game.

We’re Underdog. And winning as an Underdog is just more fun.

Join us.

We’re looking for a Director of Business Analytics (Finance & Ops) to lead a high-performing team of analysts that partners across Finance, Operations, and Risk & Trading to deliver insights that drive decision-making and business impact.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on analytics leader who thrives on building teams, partnering with business leaders, and delivering both quick wins and scalable systems. You’ll be responsible for strengthening our analytics foundations by establishing a single source of truth for critical financial and operational metrics, and by building the processes and self-serve tools that enable leaders across the business to make faster, more confident decisions.

About the role

Lead & Develop the Team

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of analysts supporting Finance, Ops, and Risk & Trading.
• Create clear roles, accountability structures, and career paths that elevate analysts into true thought partners.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high standards for analytical quality.

Partner with Business Functions

• Build strong relationships with leaders across business functions; understand their decision cycles and translate business needs into an actionable analytics roadmap.
• Establish steering cadences and a decision calendar that align analytics delivery with key business milestones.
• Influence stakeholders with clear, actionable insights that drive decisions.

Build Scalable Analytics Foundations

• Define and enforce golden metrics with unambiguous definitions, ensuring consistency across functions.
• Operationalize metrics through dbt data models, semantic layers, and BI tools, so reporting and ad-hoc analysis always pull from the same source of truth.
• Establish durable intake, triage, and delivery workflows to balance quick-turn needs with strategic work.

Enable Self-Serve & Next-Gen Analytics

• Deliver self-serve dashboards and curated datasets that empower stakeholders to answer their own questions quickly.
• Prototype and launch AI-powered self-serve capabilities (e.g., Slack chatbot or BI integration) that enable natural-language queries against the semantic layer.
• Continuously reduce reliance on ad-hoc requests by making trusted data and insights accessible at scale.

Deliver Impactful Insights

• Provide timely analyses and reporting that influence financial planning, operational efficiency, and trading risk management.
• Drive measurable improvements in areas such as forecast accuracy, payment approval rates, customer support efficiency, and exposure/risk monitoring.
• Retire legacy reports and streamline reporting processes, freeing the team to focus on high-leverage analytics.

Who you are

• Experienced Leader: 10+ years in analytics or related fields, with 4+ years managing teams; proven ability to grow, attract, and mentor talent.
• Strategic Partner: Skilled at influencing stakeholders, balancing competing priorities, and aligning analytics with business outcomes.
• Operational Builder: Track record of establishing effective processes, roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks that scale.
• Metric Governor: Experienced in defining, operationalizing, and enforcing company-wide metrics via modern data tools (dbt, semantic layers, BI).
• Technical: Strong SQL required; experience with dbt and modern BI tools (Looker, Sigma, Tableau).
• Future-Oriented: Excited about enabling self-serve analytics through AI and other next-generation tools.

Even better if you have

• Experience in high-growth consumer tech, fintech, or gaming industries.
• Background in corporate finance, accounting, or risk management.
• Exposure to operational domains such as fraud detection, payments, regulatory compliance, or customer support.
• History of scaling analytics organizations in fast-paced environments.

 

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $210,000 and $230,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.