How to hire a business analytics director

How to hire a business analytics director, step by step

Here's a step-by-step business analytics director hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a business analytics director job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new business analytics director
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the business analytics director you need to hire. Certain business analytics director roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   A business analytics director's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, business analytics directors from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list presents business analytics director salaries for various positions.

   Type of Business Analytics Director	Description	Hourly rate
   Business Analytics Director	Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in products or services. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.	$37-75
   Marketing Vice President	Marketing vice presidents (VPs) are responsible for a company's overall marketing efforts and strategies. They plan and develop marketing strategies to bolster their company's market positioning and attain business goals... Show more	$58-124
   Partner	A business partner is responsible for providing strategies and recommendations on how the business will operate, increasing its revenues while sharing profits. Business partners must have extensive knowledge of how the current market industry works to identify the best decisions for the business... Show more	$14-87

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • SQL
   • Visualization
   • Tableau
   • Power Bi
   • Business Intelligence
   • SAS
   • Data Analysis
   • Process Improvement
   • B Testing
   • ROI
   • Business Insights
   • Business Strategy
   • CRM
   • Data Governance

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage cost-centers and leverage unique Indian production and post- production capabilities and position the company as a prefer production partner.
   • Elevate the strategic planning processes by fostering usage of models on ROI analysis, marketing mix, pricing and forecasting.
   • Develop comprehensive competitive strategies compose of prioritize initiatives that maximize financial and social ROI.
   • Invent and implement a multitude of dash-boarding and visualization techniques used to convey campaign and marketing success of digital client initiatives.
   • Manage cost-centers and leverage unique Indian production and post- production capabilities and position the company as a prefer production partner.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the business analytics director job description is a good way to get more applicants. A business analytics director salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a business analytics director in Indiana may be lower than in California, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level business analytics director. Additionally, a business analytics director with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average business analytics director salary

   $111,815yearly

   $53.76 hourly rate

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   Entry-level business analytics director salary

   $78,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 19, 2026

   Average business analytics director salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$138,540	$67
   2	Oregon	$126,824	$61
   3	Washington	$126,495	$61
   4	New York	$107,338	$52
   5	Nevada	$107,155	$52
   6	Arizona	$105,562	$51
   7	Colorado	$101,003	$49
   8	Georgia	$99,407	$48
   9	Maryland	$98,399	$47
   10	Virginia	$94,289	$45
   11	Illinois	$93,488	$45
   12	West Virginia	$93,454	$45
   13	Massachusetts	$92,525	$44
   14	Mississippi	$90,477	$44
   15	Ohio	$89,089	$43
   16	Texas	$88,532	$43
   17	Minnesota	$87,368	$42
   18	Michigan	$86,669	$42
   19	South Carolina	$86,018	$41
   20	Indiana	$83,651	$40

   Average business analytics director salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	PayPal	$130,516	$62.75	39
   2	eBay	$127,675	$61.38	4
   3	Citi	$127,581	$61.34	15
   4	StubHub	$124,880	$60.04	2
   5	Bank of the West	$121,632	$58.48
   6	Rubrik	$118,598	$57.02
   7	Parkview Health	$118,310	$56.88
   8	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	$117,637	$56.56	314
   9	Morgan Stanley	$117,241	$56.37	23
   10	LinkedIn	$113,703	$54.66	7
   11	Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	$110,737	$53.24	59
   12	American Express	$108,889	$52.35	51
   13	Groupon	$106,542	$51.22
   14	Randstad North America, Inc.	$99,987	$48.07	4
   15	North States Ind	$99,916	$48.04
   16	Ericsson	$99,309	$47.74	1
   17	Adobe	$98,995	$47.59	21
   18	UPS	$98,890	$47.54	55
   19	One-Stop Communications of Pa Inc.	$97,024	$46.65
   20	HCSC	$96,215	$46.26	14

4. Writing a business analytics director job description

   A good business analytics director job description should include a few things:

   • Summary of the role
   • List of responsibilities
   • Required skills and experience

   Including a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager is also appreciated by candidates. Here's an example of a business analytics director job description:

   Business analytics director job description example

   Data is at the center of everything Favor does. The appetite for reporting and analysis grows each day as we grow and improve our programs, platforms, products and features for our community of customers, runners and merchant partners.
   
   As the Director of Business Analytics, you will lead a team of high-performing analysts in support of Favor's strategic initiatives. Through your team, you will drive data-backed decision making to grow Favor's reach and volume and to optimize service and user experience. You put people first. You have a passion for growing and developing a world class BA team, collaborating and building relationships with partners across the business, and having an impact across our community of customers, runners and merchant partners by harnessing the strategic power of data.
   
   Responsibilities: Build and lead a team of analysts and managers to support the reporting, analysis and experimentation needs of our Marketing & Growth, Product & Engineering, Merchandising & Content, Operations, Support, Sales, and Finance teams. Partner with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and collaborate on KPI selection, performance measurement, opportunity identification, strategic planning and general analysis work.Identify the functional and domain areas of expertise needed to best support the business, and ensure these capabilities are developed within the BA team.Oversee a best-practices experimentation program to measure the impact new features have on Customer and Runner behavior while fostering a culture of statistical rigor and data-based decision making. Implement and maintain a self-service reporting & visualization platform to support the real-time and near real-time data needs of 350+ employees and 5,000+ merchant partners. Create an inspiring and empowered work environment for business analysts to thrive including defining clear career paths and identifying individual growth opportunities.
   
   Skills & Qualifications: A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience. 10+ years of experience in the analytics space and 5+ years of experience leading teams. Demonstrated track record of creating strategic relationships across the business while driving alignment on high-priority, high-visibility initiatives.Expert in organizational design and building a centralized BA team with a diverse range of business domain expertise. Experience with business intelligence software, such as Looker, Tableau, or Domo. Experience with client-side analytics, like Google Analytics and Firebase. Familiarity with DW design, ETL processes and data governance best-practices. Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and statistical concepts related to A/B and multivariate testing. High proficiency in relational DB and query languages (e.g. SQL, Athena, Spectrum). Familiarity with R / Python. Effective written and verbal communication skills, in particular storytelling with data in a presentation setting. Servant leadership with strong collaboration within and across functional departments.
   
   Ideal Candidate: Detail-oriented -- You ensure accuracy and consistency of reporting and analysis through data cleansing, transformation and ongoing stewardship. You think 2 steps ahead to identify potential roadblocks and have contingency plans to address them. Narrative-oriented -- You connect changes in top-level metrics to the underlying drivers and create compelling visualizations to drive home key findings. You communicate results effectively to audiences at all levels of the organization. Action-oriented -- You are always up for a challenge and view reporting and analysis as an opportunity to recommend tactics and strategies that make the business better. You are open to feedback in the interest of delivering continually better output and growing as a professional. Teamwork-oriented -- You know how and when to effectively engage with your stakeholders and your teammates. You view yourself as a partner in the decision-making process and build trust through goal alignment, process transparency and achieving world-class outcomes. Organized -- You can manage a large queue of project work while actively working with stakeholders to prioritize and set expectations on deliverables.
   
   Life at Favor: Benefits -- We offer premium health, vision, dental, life, and 401(k) options. We also offer Favor delivery credit and H-E-B discounts! Time-Off -- We offer unlimited PTO for salary employees and ample vacation time to all team members. We empower you to live your best life and do your best work!Learning & Development -- We encourage personal growth and education through regular Learning Labs taught by internal team members and external facilitators.Community -- Whether you're an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there's a group for you here. We foster community through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), quarterly company-wide events, happy hours, and regular connection opportunities.
   At Favor, we believe that to Run Texas, we need to represent Texas. By putting Community First, we honor the diversity of our backgrounds and experiences through sharing our unique voices. Our community grows when we challenge ourselves to learn and see the world from another's view. We are committed to growing a team with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find business analytics directors for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your business analytics director job on Zippia to find and recruit business analytics director candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as swipe files, exit five, marketinghire, american marketing association.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting business analytics directors requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new business analytics director

   Once you've found the business analytics director candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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