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Manager, Revenue Business Analytics

🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $200K - $225K

💻 Project Management

🗓️ September 24th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Academia.edu is hiring a Manager, Revenue Business Analytics. This role involves leading and growing a team of business analysts, driving business growth opportunities, influencing product development strategies, and presenting data-driven recommendations to senior executives to support product strategy and decision-making.

Highlights
  • Lead and develop a high-performing business analytics team.
  • Identify opportunities for business growth and scalability across the organization.
  • Serve as a cross-functional thought leader influencing product direction.
  • Collect and analyze data to inform product positioning, messaging, and strategy.
  • Define key performance metrics, design dashboards, and lead business reporting.
  • Design, execute, and analyze experiments to generate insights for decision-making.
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in Economics with a major in Business Analytics.
  • One year of business consulting experience at Bain, McKinsey, BCG, or LEK required.
  • Salary range is $200,000 to $225,000.
  • Company emphasizes a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Manager, Revenue Business Analytics Full Description

Manager, Revenue Business Analytics

San Francisco, CA | Hybrid

About Us

Academia.edu is a venture-backed, for-profit, and profitable company based in San Francisco. We are recognized as the world’s leading platform for researchers and scholars to share work, discover research, and connect with academics globally. Our bold vision is to democratize and accelerate the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone. We imagine a world where accessing academic papers is effortless, keeping track of cutting-edge research is seamless and collaborating with researchers is easier than ever before. Our platform empowers millions of scholars worldwide to push the boundaries of human understanding. We believe in the power of knowledge to change lives and the world, and our commitment to this mission drives everything we do.
Join us as we continue to redefine what's possible in the world of research. Discover careers that challenge, inspire and propel you toward a future where your ideas can truly change the world. At Academia.edu, we're not just shaping the future of research—we're shaping the future of possibilities.

Description of Duties

  • Identify and proactively pursue opportunities for business growth and scalability within your team and across the organization.
  • Build, grow and lead a team of high performing business analysts.
  • Be a cross functional thought leader in the company influencing the direction of product development.
  • Play an important role in data gathering, actively contribute to the team’s final recommendations, and present their work to senior executives.
  • Analyze and recommend product positioning and messaging that differentiates Academia’s products in the market.
  • Gather, analyze, and interpret data to inform product strategy and support the product roadmap.
  • Define and track key performance metrics, design and maintain dashboards, and lead business reporting for your product team.
  • Design, run, and analyze experiments to drive insights and inform decision-making.

Experience and Requirements

  • Bachelors degree in Economics with a major in Business Analytics
  • One year of experience in Business Consulting with one of the major firms Bain, McKinsey, BCG or LEK

The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $225,000.

Academia is a proud equal-opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Compensation: $200K – $225K