Job Title: Director of Digital Insights
Position Summary:
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (“the Foundation”) is seeking top talent for its Director of Digital Insights role. This position at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (“the Foundation”) serves as a hands-on strategic insights partner within marketing, conducting high-priority analysis while leading a team that supports digital analytics. This role translates web and social performance data into actionable insights that inform content and channel strategy, testing priorities, optimization opportunities, and business decisions. This position goes beyond reporting to proactively identify performance opportunities, shape web testing and optimization roadmaps, and guide decisions across web and social channels. Working closely with marketing, social, web, content, and fundraising teams, this position translates insights into measurable improvements in audience engagement, user experience, and conversion.
Key Responsibilities:
Digital Insights and Audience Strategy
- Conduct high-priority social and web analyses across content, campaigns, and user journeys to identify key drivers, opportunities, and risks
- Translate data into clear, actionable insights that inform web and social strategy, prioritization, resource allocation, and investment recommendations
- Anticipate priority business questions and deliver concise analyses that explain what is happening, why it matters, and what action stakeholders should take
- Evaluate how social activity connects to website behavior and user journeys, identifying opportunities to improve engagement, experience, and conversion outcomes
- Shift stakeholders from reactive reporting requests to proactive, insight-driven decision-making
- Identify meaningful audience behaviors and segments across social and web experiences to inform content, engagement, and journey strategy
- Apply performance and behavioral insights to improve content relevance, social engagement, website experience, and conversion
- Continuously evaluate web and social performance to refine optimization priorities, testing plans, and future investment decisions
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis, insights and hypothesis generation across web and social data
Optimization and Digital Performance Leadership
- Identify high-impact optimization opportunities across web experiences, social content, and connected user journeys
- Define and lead prioritized web test-and-learn roadmaps aligned with audience needs, business goals, and high value optimization opportunities
- Influence teams to embed testing and optimization into planning and execution
- Translate experiment results into clear decisions, actionable recommendations, and next steps
- Drive the impact of insights by building stakeholder alignment around recommendations, supporting adoption, and measuring resulting performance improvements
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure learnings are applied and integrated into future strategies
- Use audience behaviors and journey patterns to identify opportunities for web personalization, content optimization, social engagement, and conversion improvement
- Lead, coach, and develop a small digital analytics team, setting clear priorities, supporting professional growth, managing workload, and ensuring high-quality delivery
- Manage day-to-day performance and development of direct reports, including goal setting, regular feedback, coaching, and professional development
- Set team priorities, allocate work, and provide guidance and oversight to ensure strong execution and alignment with broader team and organizational goals
Strategic Partnership and Influence
- Work closely with social media, web, content, marketing, and fundraising stakeholders as a strategic insights and optimization partner
- Partner with teams to connect web and social insights to broader business goals, measurement priorities, and decision-making
Qualifications and Skills:
- Relevant experience in digital analytics, web and social insights, experimentation, or optimization, including experience leading cross-functional initiatives, developing team members, and influencing senior stakeholders
- Track record of conducting hands-on social and web analysis and using digital insights, testing, and optimization to improve content effectiveness, audience engagement, user experience, conversion, and broader web and social strategy
- Demonstrated experience developing hypotheses, prioritizing opportunities, designing and executing web A/B or multivariate tests, interpreting results, building evidence-based testing roadmaps and aligning partners around measurement
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with a hypothesis-driven, curious, and solutions-oriented approach and the ability to synthesize findings across web analytics, experimentation, UX behavior, social analytics, and social listening platforms
- Familiarity with BI and visualization tools such as Domo, Tableau, or Power BI
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and compelling stories for non-technical audiences
- Ability to influence outcomes through clear insights, strong cross-functional collaboration, and a stakeholder focused approach
- Strong working knowledge of web analytics, experimentation, UX insight, social analytics, and social listening tools, such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Sprout Social, Brandwatch, Meltwater, Optimizely, Contentsquare, or comparable platforms
- Ability to assess data quality and identify the most reliable evidence for decision-making
- Familiarity with underlying data structures and measurement approaches, with the ability to actively partner on measurement design, guide implementation work, and provide quality oversight without serving as the primary technical implementer
Compensation & Benefits
Individual compensation for this role is dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, qualifications, skillsets, and applicable laws. In addition to salary, the Foundation offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Multiple options for medical insurance (with the Foundation paying 90 percent of the premiums)
- Competitive dental and vision plans
- 401(k) plan with 6 percent employer contribution
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employer paid life and disability insurance
- 18 Vacation Days; 12 Well-Being (Sick) Days; 2 Personal Days; summer Fridays (office closure at 2pm) and a summer holiday week over July 4
- Flexible work environment. We trust all employees to work closely with their manager and colleagues to determine when, where and how programs and projects get done.
Employees are also eligible for a discretionary bonus on an annual basis. The Foundation provides staff and leadership cultivation through regular training courses and events.
Salary Range
$145,000—$170,000 USD
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and thoughtful cover letter describing through examples, their specific qualifications and interest in the position. If you think that your skills are transferable and can add value to this role, please apply. Applicants who best match the position’s needs will be contacted.
About Us:
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research was founded in 2000 with one clear objective: accelerating meaningful therapeutic advances and, ultimately, a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Foundation applies extraordinary scientific, business and media assets to this singular focus—thus creating a unique and dynamic organization. Since inception, MJFF has quickly grown into the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s disease research, having funded over $2 billion in research projects in both academic and industry labs worldwide.
Visit www.michaeljfox.org for more information.
Research has shown that people from marginalized communities apply to roles only when they meet 100% of the job requirements. If you think that your skills are transferable and can add value to this role, and you are someone who will contribute to our efforts to build and support a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, we strongly encourage you to apply.
