[lightsandaounds]

I don't think a list of job titles would be helpful for you because (not surprisingly, as a startup) you are looking for one person to do 3-4 different jobs.

In my experience, what and where to measure should be led by your business folks. The rest of the responsibilities could probably be handled by a data engineer.

I guess my word of warning is that I don't think you'll find someone with three areas of expertise

1) understanding your business / industry at a level deep enough to know what to measure.

2) having the core statistics and analytic capabilities to work with someone in category 1) to get insights out of the data.

3) having a deep understanding of databases and engineering pipelines to make functional and reliable data infrastructure that allow folks in 2) to be good at their job.

If you are starting a new analytics department, I would be looking for an existing person at the company to take responsibility for 1) and look for a great candidate in 3) who has worked closely with others in 2).

[nkmnz]

Great advice, thank you! We have 1 (founder team) and 2 (data scientist), actually looking for 3 to chose the right tools and lead the team to implement them across the stack from front to back to database to operations. I guess that putting the explorative work of 2 into operations is, again, another position 4? Probably a problem for 2023 ;-)