About the Role
We are looking for a Product Analytics Lead to be our first dedicated data partner, turning signals from PostHog and internal systems into actionable insights that drive product and growth decisions. From tracking the impact of new features to identifying hidden user patterns, your work will directly shape how we build and scale Shortcut and future products.
This is an extremely analytical and detail-oriented role and would be best for someone who is incessant with data and fluent in data storytelling.
What you'll do
Own daily analysis of user activity, funnels, and retention across Shortcut and new product surfaces
Design and maintain dashboards in PostHog to monitor growth, engagement, and conversion
Partner with product, growth, and engineering to define and instrument key metrics and event tracking
Run cohort analyses, AB test evaluations, and behavioral segmentation to uncover insights
Identify and communicate opportunities to improve onboarding, activation, and retention
Translate complex data into clear stories that guide decisions across the company
Build lightweight tools, reports, or scripts that automate recurring analysis
Help define our data stack and best practices for product analytics across the org
Qualifications
Minimum 2 years of experience in product analytics, data science, or growth analysis for a tech consumer product - we invite more senior candidates to apply as well
Experience analyzing user interaction data with Posthog, Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, or similar tools
Experience with user funnel analysis, retention metrics, and experimentation
Strong data manipulation skills; familiarity with Python or similar is a plus
Comfortable building and maintaining self-serve dashboards for product and leadership teams
Excellent communication skills — able to translate findings into clear recommendations
Curiosity-driven mindset; you find patterns in data and turn them into hypotheses
What makes us interesting
Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies
True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months
Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution
What we do
Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and
Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and
Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms
The Details
Full-time, onsite role in Menlo Park
Startup hours apply
Generous salary, with additional benefits to be discussed during the hiring process
Top Skills
What We Do
Fundamental Research Labs is building digital humans—machines with the capacity to learn, care, and grow alongside us.
We're an applied research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent agents. Our small team includes computational neuroscientists, AI researchers, engineers, and builders from MIT EECS, Stanford NLP Group, Google X, Citadel, and beyond.
Our research prototypes began with multi-agent experiments in games like Minecraft and Roblox, where over a million people have interacted with our agents. Today, we're bringing those agents out of the sandbox and into the real world—starting with your computer.
