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Kelly Wade

Data & analytics leader · Portland, OR

I care about how information lands.

Who's reading it, what they need from it, and the call it changes. For over a decade I've built and led analytics teams at high-growth consumer businesses. I measure success by whether the work changes a decision.

How I work

I build and lead data teams, and I stay in the analysis myself. At Dutch I built the function from zero for a 600K-member subscription business: the team, the Snowflake, dbt and Sigma stack, and the metric framework behind revenue, retention, LTV, unit economics and fulfillment. I own the Series C data room with the CEO and CFO, and I still run the high-stakes deep dives, from pricing and unit economics to fulfillment cost and margin.

Right now I'm focused on what happens when you pair strong BI foundations with AI. I built Dash, a Snowflake Cortex agent that brings self-serve analytics into Slack, answering questions over governed metrics. It reached 90% company-wide adoption within six days. The dashboard is rarely what lasts in this work; the system behind it is.

I care most about data owned as a product and a platform: the semantic layer, the metrics people trust, the alerting when something breaks, and the way people actually ask their questions.

Selected work

What I've built

Hands-on

The calls I ran myself

Leading the team hasn't meant leaving the data. These are analyses I owned personally, each one changing what the business did next.

$96K

Quantified avoidable split-shipment fulfillment cost and gave operations a fix they could act on.

$68K

Modeled a proposed 2-day shipping tier and prevented the margin loss before it launched.

$250K+

Found fulfillment and refund savings across the operation.

$400K

Surfaced a legislative revenue risk during Series C diligence before it reached the board.

Experience
Director of AnalyticsDutch Pet
Nov 2021 – present

Built and lead the analytics function for a 600K-member subscription business. Own company-wide metric governance and the unit economics, pricing and fulfillment models behind growth and board decisions, and stay hands-on with the high-stakes analysis. Built the Cortex self-serve platform in the case study above.

Principal Consultant, Data & AnalyticsSlalom
2019 – 2021

Led enterprise analytics builds for Nike (the supply-chain KPI framework for Global Marketplace Operations through COVID), Providence Health Plan (Tableau and Redshift reporting for 1,000+ providers with row-level security) and PGE (self-service reporting).

Senior Manager, Insights & AnalyticsOmaze
2015 – 2019

Built the analytics function from scratch, drove a 58-point NPS lift, and raised dashboard adoption from 15% to 75%.

EarlierPose, Nasty Gal, The Intelligence Group
2011 – 2015

Marketing, project management and consumer-research roles across fashion and media.

What I work with

Leadership

Business & growth analytics Metric governance & KPIs eCommerce & supply-chain analytics Unit economics & pricing Self-serve enablement AI-operationalized analytics Executive & board partnership Team leadership & development

Stack

Snowflake dbt Sigma SQL Tableau Amplitude Claude / Cortex Fivetran Prefect