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Head of Methodology & Data, SMB
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Head of Methodology & Data, SMB
Forbes Advisor
• Own SMB methodology strategy across formation, banking, accounting, payroll, payments, communications, HR, lending and business operations software. • Define clear, defensible evaluation frameworks that reflect SMB user needs, market realities and update cadence. • Shape proprietary SMB metrics and structured datasets for rankings, editorial use and potential data products. • Define research and data collection requirements; partner with testing, data and research teams to ensure evidence quality. • Establish quality standards for SMB methodologies, scoring models, documentation and analyst work. • Mentor analysts and serve as the internal SME for SMB market dynamics, methodology design, and data quality. • Partner with editorial, SEO, product, commercial, testing and data teams to translate methodology into credible rankings and scalable data products.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SMB products, services, SaaS, fintech, operations, consulting, analytics, product management or related fields.
- Deep understanding of how small businesses evaluate, buy and use products or services to start, operate and grow.
- Experience building or overseeing analytical frameworks, rating systems, benchmarking programs, structured evaluations or data products.
- Strong ability to translate complex business, financial, operational or technical concepts into clear guidance for non-experts.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and guide work across editorial, product, commercial, analytics, research or testing teams.
- Experience at a review site, marketplace, ratings organization, fintech, SaaS provider, business services company or SMB data provider (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with model governance, validation, QA or audit processes for scoring/rating systems (nice-to-have).
- Exposure to proprietary datasets, scoring engines, commercial data products or large-scale comparative product evaluations (nice-to-have).
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
- Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
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