Senior Director of Analytics

​Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®  

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com. 

The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and curious Senior Director of Analytics to standup and lead a small but high-performing Analytics team that blends data, advanced analytics, and a deep sense of curiosity to uncover insights to previously unanswered questions that drive strategic decision-making and commercial performance. Central to this role is the ability to work in a highly matrixed organization to build analytical frameworks to best understand leaders, companies and the unique combinations that drive success in an ever-changing world. You will play a critical role in shaping our data-driven culture, designing experiments, and ensuring that analytics are at the heart of our decision-making processes.

Heidrick Labs is a pioneering research and innovation division dedicated to transforming organizational leadership through cutting-edge insights and advanced analytics. Our multidisciplinary team combines expertise in data science, psychology, and business strategy to develop forward-thinking solutions that help companies navigate complex workplace challenges. This role requires a hands-on leader who is comfortable working across the analytics lifecycle—from data acquisition to insight generation and stakeholder communication. Your ability to tell compelling stories with data and influence decisions will be essential to success in this role. Through the Lab, Heidrick advances leadership diagnosis, delivers decision-driving insights into global workforce trends, leverages AI-powered talent strategy development and deliver organizational transformation consulting. We don't just study the future of work—we help organizations create it.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of analysts, ensuring they operate effectively and efficiently in delivering high-impact insights.
• Work closely with business leaders to identify and narrow a list of key questions and challenges that analytics can help solve, driving meaningful commercial outcomes.
• Partner with the Heads of Data Architecture & Data Science to build and optimize data pipelines and analytical frameworks to enable efficient data exploration and hypothesis testing where insights add to a growing understanding of key entities
• Design and execute rigorous analytics & experimentation strategies (A/B testing, causal inference, etc.) to evaluate business decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Leverage SQL, Python/R, and other analytical tools to extract, analyze, and visualize data effectively.
• Translate complex data findings into clear, actionable insights through compelling storytelling and visualization techniques.
• Act as a strategic partner to stakeholders, providing thought leadership on the application of analytics in decision-making.
• Champion a culture of curiosity, innovation, and analytical excellence within the team and across the organization.
• Work cross-functionally with business line leaders, product, marketing, operations, and engineering teams to align analytics with business goals and drive measurable impact.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of progressive experience in analytics or data science with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Master’s degree in statistics, analytics, data science, or similar field, or equivalent practical work expe