Director, Product Analytics

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Cengage is on a mission to make every student a confident learner, and we are looking for a Lead Digital Product Analytics to help achieve that goal.

We are seeking an experienced Lead/Director Product Analytics to be responsible for the evolution of our product intelligence and experimentation capability across Cengage’s digital portfolio. Reporting to the leader of the Product Analytics team, this individual will build and scale a modern analytics function that influences product strategy, improves learner outcomes, and fuels the next wave of digital innovation across the enterprise.

You will lead a high-performing team of product analytics scientists, partner closely with Product, Technology, Marketing, Business partners and serve as a leader with vision on digital learning intelligence and student engagement measurement. This role blends strategic vision, analytical difficulty, and hands‑on leadership to elevate Cengage’s digital product decisions and culture of experimentation.

In this role you will help Cengage set up our product analytics practice. Work with product and technology teams to understand customer needs. Use Amplitude and other analytics tools to tag the full digital experience. Gather appropriate data and build metrics and insights. You will work closely with product owners to identify what parts of the digital customer experience need to be changed, set up A/B tests to identify customer response to product changes and measure the business value and customer satisfaction delivered by the digital product.

The ideal candidate is an expert analytical and process improvement professional, with experience in data‑driven decision making and Digital clickstream data, product analytics concepts with ideally some exposure to digital marketing and data science. You will lead a team of analysts and data scientists, collaborating with various partners in global businesses on important analytics and product tasks.

Are you motivated by working to refine analytical capability in established businesses, while bringing standard methodologies and analytical horsepower to more up‑and‑coming ones? Reporting to the Head of Product Analytics, you will help bring this strategic process thinking and continual improvement to Cengage’s global businesses.

• Develop and implement the enterprise product analytics strategy aligned to Cengage’s learning and product vision
• Lead and mentor a team of analysts and data scientists, embedding best‑in‑class practices in experimentation, measurement, and insight generation
• Drive end‑to‑end instrumentation strategy, partnering with tech teams to ensure scalable, accurate, and consistent tracking across platforms and experiences
• Champion a customer‑focused product culture, turning data into actionable stories and strategic recommendations
• Partner with product and design leadership to shape product roadmaps advised by learning science, behavioral signal analysis, and student outcome metrics
• Lead the design and governance of A/B testing and experimentation frameworks to evaluate features, optimize experience flow, and validate product hypotheses
• Operationalize product health dashboards, KPI…