Commercial Analytics Director

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group (“FanDuel") is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.

FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.

Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE ROSTER

At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

The Commercial Analytics Director will work closely with other Commercial Directors & the Commercial Vice President to drive the sportsbook commercial strategy, and act as liaison with stakeholders to ensure that it gets properly implemented across the organization. Concurrently, they will be responsible for driving key sportsbook initiatives and periodically reporting on outcomes to the leadership team. This role will be dedicated to optimizing our value proposition via a test & learn approach, partnering with several business functions, most notably, Risk & Trading, Marketing, and Product teams.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Responsible for leading complex cross-functional projects to deliver on company strategy.
• Define hypotheses and design, execute, and analyze experiments to inform optimization of our sportsbook product for growth and long-term profitability.
• Collaborate to define a medium-term experimentation roadmap focused on iterative learning to better understand our value proposition and inform our price and promotion strategy.
• Grow our fact base as it relates to customer behavior, transactional data, market trends and customer research to better understand current state and inform future decisions.
• Support iterative improvement of existing processes, procedures, and methodologies to ensure scientific rigor.
• Support ideation and prioritization of novel sportsbook product capabilities.
• Assess new opportunities and provide recommendations to senior stakeholders to drive the business to a higher level of profitability.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing with global counterparts & invest in continuous learning to ensure we’re embedding best practices.
• Use subject matter expertise to drive actionable insights to drive revenue cross-functionally.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure customer centricity is at the core of what we do

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical, technical or commercial field preferred with 3+ years of management experience
• Bachelor's Degree in a highly numerate major (Math, Stats, Econ, etc.) or relevant experience in data and/or business analysis
• Proficiency in SQL and Excel required
• Ability to use languages for analysis, Python, R, Spark preferred
• Demonstrated experience using data visualization software to convey insights in an easy to digest format. Preferred experience working with Tableau for data visualization.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills - demonstrable track record of influencing up, down and across org