What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Product Analyst, Core Platforms position at Match Group?
The Match Group Core Product team is seeking a Lead Product Analyst to help identify and unlock product, operational, and business opportunities at platform scale across Match Group. Reporting to the Director of Product, this person will serve as a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, Data Science, BI, Operations, and brand stakeholders.
This role is ideal for someone who can move fluidly between hands-on analysis, product strategy, experimentation, and data foundation work. You will help define how we measure platform value, uncover portfolio-wide opportunities, and turn complex customer, brand, and operational signals into actionable insights that improve outcomes across Match Group’s consumer dating ecosystem.
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Define and evolve KPIs for Core Product, including platform health, adoption, quality, and business impact across brands.
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Partner with Product Managers to frame problems, size opportunities, define success metrics, and inform roadmap priorities.
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Lead experiment design, feature measurement, cohort analysis, and post-launch evaluation.
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Analyze large, complex datasets to uncover product insights, risks, and growth opportunities across brands and systems.
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Partner with Engineering, Data Engineering, and BI to improve instrumentation, metric definitions, data models, and self-service analytics.
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Build dashboards and analytical frameworks that help teams monitor performance and make faster decisions.
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Translate ambiguous questions into clear analysis, practical recommendations, and compelling narratives.
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Serve as a lead individual contributor, raising the bar for analytical rigor, measurement, and storytelling.
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Mentor others and help strengthen analytics standards and capabilities across Core and partner teams.
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7 years of experience using quantitative analysis to drive product and business decisions in digital product environments.
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4 years of experience directly supporting Product Managers or embedded within a product organization.
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Experience owning product metrics and evaluating feature performance through experimentation, funnel analysis, retention analysis, and segmentation.
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Strong technical analytics skills across large datasets, from event-level data to executive reporting.
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Strong understanding of product analytics in multi-sided or B2B2C ecosystems.
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Experience improving instrumentation, event schemas, and data models to increase data quality and speed to insight.
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Strong grounding in statistics and experimentation methods.
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Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python or R.
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Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Databricks, Looker, or similar.
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Strong communication skills and the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Experience mentoring others and raising the analytical quality bar across a team.
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Familiarity with user growth, trust and safety, and operational tooling analytics preferred.
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Why Match Group?
Our mission is simple – to help people find love and happiness! We love our employees too and understand the importance of all life's milestones. Here are some of the benefits we are proud to offer:
• Generous vacation, flex days, professional development days
• RRSP matching, and employee stock purchase plan
• Professional development budget and unlimited access to Udemy from day one
• Match Group mentorship program
• Parental leave top up and fertility preservation benefits
• Extended health & dental benefits from day one
• Corporate ClassPass membership and other wellness benefits
• And many more on our careers page
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Period.
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Salary : $116,000 - $133,000