Work · A point of view
Analytics worth building for
Not a job hunt — a thesis. Two lenses on where data-leadership work actually matters. Thecraft lane is where the discipline runs deepest: lifecycle, payments, and BNPL analytics. The values lane is the harder-won one — companies serving the underserved customer the right way, no-fee and mission-first. I spent a career in subprime consumer finance; this is my read on who’s doing it well, with the posted comp to prove the market takes it seriously.
How to read it: posted base-salary ranges from live job descriptions — not total comp, not levels.fyi, and several are geo-banded (the high end reflects CA / NY / Seattle). Each row links to its source posting, or to a deep-dive case study where one exists. Complements the What the roles pay.
26
leadership roles tracked
$201K
median of posted midpoints
$112.4K–$375K
full base-salary span
DoorDash
top midpoint · $255K–$375K
The craft lane — Customer, Lifecycle & Payments Analytics
The values lane — where the mission is the product
Updated 2026-10-05 · every posting link checked 2026-10-05 · posted base ranges, geo-banded where noted · each row links to its case study or source posting.
A living point of view
This isn’t a static opinion — it’s fed by /jd-salary-scrape, a scheduled routine that refreshes both lanes with the most recent openings and commits the data to the repo (the same pattern as the Ogden home-finder). It feeds a recurring Golden Data newsletter segment:what the analytics-leadership market pays, and which companies are worth respecting — with the cleaned dataset as the lead magnet.