People Data & Insights Analyst

About Gen:

At Gen, our mission is to create innovative and easy-to-use technology solutions that help people grow, manage, and secure their digital and financial lives. Dual-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic, Gen powers Digital Freedom for nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries through our trusted brands, including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion. We serve Gen D — Generation Digital — by delivering award-winning products in cybersecurity, identity protection, online privacy, and financial wellness. We think big, innovate boldly, and operate with a shared commitment to create meaningful impact for our customers, communities, and each other.

About the Role:

As part of Gen’s People & Culture (P&C) organization, this role operates in an agile, product-minded HR model, partnering across sprints, squads, and centers of excellence to deliver exceptional employee experiences and power data-driven, AI-enabled decision making.

The Data & Insights Analyst is the primary translator between data and business decision-making. They sit at the intersection of People & Culture, business strategy, and analytics, turning high-quality modeled data into compelling narratives, practical insights, and clear recommendations for leaders.

This role deeply understands Gen’s business model, priorities, and talent dynamics, enabling them to spot trends early, connect dots across datasets and business context, and guide leadership toward evidence-based action.

Core Responsibilities:

• Serve as the insights and storytelling partner for assigned business units, building recurring rhythms to review KPIs, dashboards, and workforce trends.

• Develop clear, narrative-driven analytics deliverables that highlight risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

• Connect workforce insights to business outcomes, helping leaders understand not just what is happening but why, so what, and now what.

• Maintain a deep understanding of business strategies, talent priorities, and operational realities to contextualize findings appropriately.

• Provide data-guided perspectives during annual and cyclical processes such as talent reviews, organization planning, headcount forecasting, and performance cycles.

• Collaborate closely with business partners and CoEs on cross-functional squads to shape people strategies with evidence-based recommendations.

• Develop insights for executive-ready presentations, business narratives, and actionable recommendations.

• Advise leaders on interpreting trends, pressure-testing assumptions, and making decisions with confidence.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

• Proactively monitor workforce health indicators (e.g., attrition, mobility, hiring, engagement, diversity, performance outcomes) to identify emerging patterns before they become issues.

• Work with the Head of People Technology, Data, and Innovation to build storytelling frameworks and executive briefings that distill complex datasets into intuitive, human-centered narratives.

• Lead consultative discussions with senior leaders, facilitating conversations that drive clarity, alignment, and strategic choices.

• Prepare data narratives for high-impact forums such as quarterly business reviews, workforce planning sessions, and organizational design discussions.

• Partner with the People Data Architect to influence data model enhancements based on insight needs, business priorities, and new use cases.

• Bring a strong point of view using data, business context, and an understanding of organizational dynamics to guide data driven people decisions.

• Create repeatable insight templates, playbooks, and frameworks that scale storytelling capabilities across the P&C function.

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of experience in people analytics, HR consulting, business strategy, or a comparable advisory/insights role.

• Demonstrated expertise in data storytelling—crafting narratives that influence leaders and simplify complexity.

• Strong business acumen and ability to quickly understand organizational strategy, operating rhythms, and talent priorities.

• Proficiency interpreting dashboards, KPIs, and workforce analytics to extract meaningful insights.

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity by probing beyond the confines of standard reporting — asking the right questions, identifying patterns or gaps, and independently driving deeper analysis to uncover meaningful insights.

• Exceptional communication skills, both visual and written, with experience producing executive-ready presentations.

Preferred

• Experience partnering with HR Business Partners or working within a People & Culture function.

• Familiarity with People data sources (HCM, ATS, performance, talent management, compensation, etc.).

• Exposure to predictive analytics, workforce planning, or organizational design.

A successful Data & Insights Analyst at Gen:

• Delivers clean, consistent, and reliable data that leaders can depend on.

• Thinks like both an engineer and an analyst, understanding the technical stack while crafting insights that answer real business questions.

• Enables business partners, product lines, CoEs, and executives to be more data-driven, strategic, and proactive.

• Creates dashboards, narratives, and frameworks that simplify workforce insights.

• Champions governance and security, ensuring people data is handled responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with global regulations.

• Embraces AI and innovation by proactively exploring ways to enhance automation, prediction, and digital employee experiences.

Location: New York City or Tempe, AZ Office (Onsite 3 days per week)
The annual base salary for this position is expected to be between $110,000 to $120,000. Base salary is one component of Gen's total compensation package, which includes 401(k) match, health insurance options, disability coverage, life insurance, and unlimited paid time off. Actual salaries will vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and competencies related to the role.

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusivity. We base employment decisions on merit, experience, and business needs, without considering race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or other unlawful factors. Gen prohibits discrimination based on these protected characteristics and recruits talented candidates from diverse backgrounds.

We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency.

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.