Director of Data & Insights

Puck is seeking a Director of Data & Insights to lead our data function and bring clarity, efficiency, and intelligence to everything Puck does as a digital publisher. This role is ideal for someone who can design and manage a modern data stack, develop meaningful insights, and deliver concise, actionable storytelling for growth.

You’ll be responsible for building robust data systems and tools that support decision-making across editorial, subscription growth, and commercial revenue. This is a technical leadership role with high visibility—and a direct impact on the future of Puck.

This role is a hybrid role located in our downtown Manhattan headquarters, with the expectation that the incumbent is onsite a minimum of 3 days per week. Remote candidates will not be considered. 

 

Primary Responsibilities: 
 

• Design and manage Puck’s data architecture, including ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouse, and reporting layers.
• Consolidate and normalize data from platforms like Stripe, Customer I/O, Google Analytics, and WordPress.
• Manage scalable infrastructure to support audience analytics, subscription funnel analysis, and lifecycle tracking.
• Maintain high data quality, governance, and documentation standards.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across marketing, editorial, business operations, product & engineer, and commercial to define data needs and deliver actionable dashboards and reports
• Lead technical and reporting support for experimentation efforts, including A/B testing infrastructure.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership by providing regular non-technical insight into user behavior, conversion, and retention.
• Help establish and grow a data-first culture throughout the organization.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of Data Engineers/Analysts. 
  
   

To best perform in this job, you will demonstrate:
 

• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical teams.
• Familiarity with APIs, event tracking systems, and customer data platforms.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills; comfortable working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, high-growth company.
  
   

Qualifications:
 

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or similar roles, preferably in a subscription or digital media environment.
• Expert in building modern data stacks with tools like dbt, Fivetran, BigQuery.
• Strong SQL and Python skills; able to own production-grade pipelines end-to-end.
• Experience with Looker and a deep understanding of conversion funnels.
  
   

Salary, Perks & Benefits:
 

• The salary range for this role is $220,000 – $230,000, but the final offer amount is dependent on incumbent’s relevant experience, skill-level, and location 
• Company equity
• Flexible PTO, in addition to company holidays 
• Health, dental, and vision insurance 
• 401K with company match
• Endless development opportunities at a fast-growing startup
   

About Puck:

At Puck, we believe that journalists are society’s original influencers. Yet the digital media economy of the last decade created an insurmountable rift between journalists and their followings. Puck exists to change that; we want to return power back to journalists by creating a media platform owned and operated by the journalists themselves. Puck is a news brand dedicated to the inside story, hyper-focused on the four power corners of American culture: Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Washington, and Hollywood. We are focused on the “last mile” of news - what the insiders are really saying. 

Puck was founded by media industry veterans and a handful of entrepreneurial journalists. We launched in September 2021 and have been featured in The New York Times, Axios, Bloomberg, and other leading publications. We most recently raised a Series B with TPG Growth, Standard Investments, and J Rothschild Capital Management. We are headquartered in Manhattan with a nationally distributed workforce.