Analytics Lead

About Novig

America's #1 Sports Trading App

Tech description:

We're building the first high-frequency sports prediction trading platform.

Stack: mobile app in React Native; backend exchange and trading components in Java; database layer in PostgreSQL, Mongo, S3.

We’re a nimble team of researchers, engineers, statisticians, and other flavors of nerd who want to tackle some of the most challenging open-ended problems at the intersection of sports, game theory, and technology.

If you enjoy solving hard interdisciplinary problems, then you’ll enjoy working at Novig.

*Proof:* People who work at Novig solve hard interdisciplinary problems. □

Job description:

### **Analytics Lead**

_$140k – $180k • meaningful equity_

### **About Novig**

Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market. Our mission is to financialize and democratize sports trading - taking a closed system run by casinos and turning it into a fair, efficient, two-sided market where the power sits with users.

With CFTC approval on the horizon, we're poised to go live across all 50 states as the leading sports-focused, federally regulated market built on trust, transparency, and real user protection.

We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's top investors — Pantera, Forerunner, Lux, NFX, Paul Graham, and Joe Montana — who have collectively invested over $100M behind this vision.

### **About the Role**

At Novig, data directly shapes the product — what we ship, what we measure, and the calls we make about what comes next. As an Analytics Lead, you'll partner with our Head of Analytics to build the foundation — strategically and tactically — shaping our analytics roadmap, bringing structure to open questions, and helping the team make sharper, faster decisions. You'll help define what analytics looks like at Novig long-term: working with Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Product, and Design to build the data models, pipelines, and dashboards our team runs on and surface the insights behind the decisions we make.

### **Who you are and what you will do**

- Drive strategy and action: Guide the team to interpret data and act on it. Write clear documentation, set the standards, and lead by example in driving evidence-based decisions.

- Build, don't just maintain: You take pride in designing clean, scalable systems from scratch, and you're excited to take end-to-end ownership — filling gaps, creating structure, and becoming the go-to person others rely on for clarity.

- Run a modern, AI-native stack: You write clean, performant SQL/dbt and are at home across the analytics stack. You think probabilistically — comfortable with experimentation, distributions, and the math behind sound analysis — and you use AI fluently in your data work.

- Lead the analyses that matter: Partner closely with stakeholders across the team to proactively identify and lead the analyses that answer strategic questions, uncover growth and efficiency levers, and shape team priorities and roadmaps.

- Engineer the data foundation: Partner with Engineering to design, validate, and optimize pipelines — ensuring our data infrastructure is accurate, scalable, and the trusted single source of truth.

- Communicate complex ideas with clarity: You distill deep analysis into crisp, actionable takeaways, whether writing a Notion doc or presenting to leadership, and you earn trust across cross-functional teams by speaking the language of both operations and engineering.

- Have 3-7 years on the job: You've shipped real work at an early-stage or fast-paced company where you owned analytics end-to-end.

### **Why work here, in the words of the people who do**

_“I work with extremely stellar people, I own real systems, and decisions happen fast. No politics, no waiting for needless red tape. If something's broken, I fix it. If I build something good, it ships.”_

_“The people! They're smart, thoughtful, fun to work with and passionate about their craft.”_

_“I'm having the most fun I've had in my entire career.”_

If you want responsibility, trust, and the chance to help build the future of sports prediction markets - take your shot, we’d love to connect.

### **Not for everyone**

- Our work is tied to live sports - that means potential nights, weekends, and pressure included.

- If you need clear swim lanes, a heavy process, or someone to tell you what to do, this won’t be the right environment.

### **Compensation & benefits**

- $140k – $180k base, benchmarked at top-tier tech companies

- Meaningful equity for every employee, regardless of role

- 100% health premiums covered

- 99% dental & vision covered

- 401(k) with 4% company match

- HSA + $1,080 annual company contribution

- $50/monthly company contribution to employee transit

- $27/day lunch stipend when working from our NYC office

- $35/day dinner stipend when working from the NYC office after 6:30pm

### **Homebase**

Union Square, NYC
In-person 4 days a week because we genuinely like being around each other.