Principal Data Analyst (9 Months Fixed Term Contract)
AirtaskerSydney (Hybrid)
Posted February 1, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Airtasker operates a global online marketplace that connects individuals with a wide range of task-based services, enabling people to monetize their skills and create new earning opportunities. Since its Australian launch, the platform has facilitated over $2 billion in job creation and expanded to the US and UK, positioning itself as a leading tech-driven outsourcing solution. Airtasker’s success is underpinned by a strong culture that values openness, inclusivity, and ownership, attracting a diverse community of more than 149,000 active Taskers. The company offers competitive compensation, flexible hybrid work, and a supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and well-being for its employees.
Job Description
We are seeking a high-level individual contributor to step into a leadership capacity for a nine-month maternity leave cover as the Principal Data Analyst. The role involves strategic advisory, technical mentorship, experimentation leadership, insight delivery, stakeholder collaboration, technical collaboration, and data advocacy.
Requirements
- Strategic Advisory: Guide company and product strategy through advanced data exploration, decision science, and the development of sophisticated business metrics.
- Technical Mentorship: Model best practices in data modelling, governance, SQL, reporting and analysis to raise the quality of work across the team.
- Experimentation Leadership: Drive a mature experimentation culture by guiding experiment design, monitoring, and result interpretation.
- Insight Delivery: Ensure business teams have access to relevant, timely, and actionable reporting tools to facilitate high quality decision-making.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with senior product, marketing, and C-level leaders to design data-informed strategies.
- Technical Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with technical peers in Analytics Engineering and Software Engineering to resolve complex data challenges.
- Data Advocacy: Educate and evangelise the role of decision science across Airtasker, ensuring team members understand the data lifecycle and how it creates value.
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Airtime (no Slack and meeting-free Fridays)
- Recharge days
- Wellbeing support
- Airpowerment Fund
- Airtasker credits
- Fair and equitable pay
- Tenure leave
- DAREtasker (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee)
- Celebration swap
- Learning and development
- 360 performance reviews
- Volunteer leave
- Awards
- Vibe committee
- Birthday leave
