About Stitch Fix

Stitch Fix is the world’s leading online personal styling service, combining data science and human judgment to deliver apparel, shoes, and accessories personalized to its clients’ unique tastes, lifestyles, and budgets. We delight customers with a personalized experience that helps them build a wardrobe that fits their style so they look and feel their best. Over the last 10 years, Stitch Fix has delighted customers with convenient styling services by integrating the power of data science together with human stylists. The company is expanding its experience beyond the personal styling experience delivered via fixes by adding new offerings including a direct shopping experience in a personalized feed. This new shopping feed represents the beginning of a new chapter for the company,  and delivers a superior shopping experience by presenting shoppers with items that fit them and their style. We envision a future in which we continue to disrupt traditional models by leveraging our stylists and our data science capabilities to delight customers in new ways with enhancements such as Live Styling Services. 

About the role

The Director of Product Analytics and Data Science is an integral part of the future success of our business. Our clients want clothes that will help them look and feel their best -- without the burden of sifting through thousands of items that don’t. You will build and lead a team of Data Scientists to provide the data and insights that will inform our product decisions. You will lead your team to proactively uncover insights that influence the product roadmap and improve the user experience, define and monitor the metrics that best measure the customer experience and are most impactful to the business, design experiments to test hypotheses and make launch decisions. The role reports into the Chief Product Officer.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years in a product data science or Analyst role, with several years managing a team of product-focused data scientists 
• 5+ years of experience with SQL 
• An unrelenting focus on scale via mechanisms and best practices including structuring analyses, dashboard design and data visualizations to communicate meaningful metrics within the business. 
• Demonstrated ability to influence product roadmaps and business decisions with data. 
• Exceptional communication skills that allow you to effectively distill highly complex data analyses for non-technical business leaders. 
• Strong business intuition and conceptual thinking, and the ability to prioritize and focus on the questions that matter most to the business
• Proven expertise in experimental design (including but not limited to A/B testing), principles of causal inference, and statistical techniques (e.g., model-based evaluations of user behavior)
• Reputation as a collaborative team member who can work cross-functionally, especially with product and technical leaders.
• Willingness to ask the tough questions and surface the unwelcome or controversial insights, and be unbiased in where the data leads.
• Possesses translational capabilities between data analytics and business questions; skilled in finding the right metrics to understand the business and instill adoption.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Experience with transforming and analyzing data across databases
• Masters degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, computer science)

Why you’ll love working at Stitch Fix:

• We are a group of people who are bright, kind and motivated by challenge. You can be your authentic self here, and are empowered to encourage others to do the same! 
• We are a successful, fast-growing company at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining retail for the next generation
• We are a technologically and data-driven business
• We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of “Transforming the way people find what they love”
• We love solving problems, thinking creatively and trying new things
• We believe in autonomy & taking initiative
• We are challenged, developed and have meaningful impact
• We take what we do seriously. We don’t take ourselves seriously
• We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas
• We offer transparent, equitable, and competitive compensation based on your level to help eliminate bias in salaries, as well as equity and comprehensive health benefits.
• You will be proud to say that you work for Stitch Fix and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day