Director, Data Strategy – Analytics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement a thorough data and analytics strategy that aligns with the organization's mission, vision, and overall strategy.

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a team of analysts.

• Take ownership of project management and prioritization for business analytics and AI-driven analytics initiatives.

• Supervise the review and quality assurance of data products to ensure quality, accuracy, user-centered design, and impactful storytelling.

• Assist the Director of Analytics Engineering and promote continuous learning within the team.

• Conduct analysis of revenue, operational, and customer data to develop KPIs, models, and dashboards.

• Collaborate with stakeholder teams to uncover opportunities for data-driven innovation and operational efficiencies.

• Create and sustain self-service dashboards, AI agents, and conversational data interfaces.

• Develop enablement frameworks, adoption practices, and guidelines for self-service analytics.

• Oversee the integration of AI capabilities into analytics tools and workflows.

• Act as the primary data partner for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, senior leadership, Cambium, and Veritas.

• Convert business requirements into actionable data needs and metric definitions.

• Collaborate on data warehouse marts, Tableau Cloud data sources, data architecture, integration, and AI infrastructure decisions.

• Manage the strategy and governance of the Tableau/BI system.

• Lead the procurement and management of vendors and tools.

• Chair the cross-functional data governance group.

• Establish and uphold data and AI governance policies, procedures, and controls.

• Ensure compliance with policies and appropriate usage of sensitive data.

• Keep abreast of trends in advanced analytics, AI, and data management, and recommend responsible business innovations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, economics, business, computer science, or a similar field.

• Over 10 years of experience in analytics, data strategy, or a related domain.

• More than 5 years of experience in managing, coaching, or leading data analysts or analytics teams.

• Proven experience in leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced and dynamic setting.

• Expertise in data visualization, statistical modeling/machine learning, and go-to-market domain analyses.

• Professional proficiency in SQL, Tableau, Python, or R.

• Familiarity with data engineering and cloud data platforms like Dbt, Redshift, and AWS.

• Experience in overseeing BI platform strategy and governance.

• Skilled in managing analytics vendor and tool relationships.

• Proficient in metric definition, data governance, and data quality management.

• Experience in building or implementing AI-assisted analytics workflows, including AI agents, natural language query interfaces, or LLM-driven analytics.

• Understanding of data privacy, security protocols, ethical governance, and hallucination guardrails.

• Familiarity with sales and customer data platforms like Salesforce.

• Outstanding communication, data storytelling, and collaboration skills.

• Capability to translate complex data insights into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Strategic mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities across various stakeholders.

• Must reside and work within the US.

• Reliable cable or fiber-optic broadband connection with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload for remote work.

• Ability to actively participate in video-based interviews and ongoing virtual meetings with the camera on.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment that emphasizes flexibility and trust to balance work with personal life.

• Reimbursement for home or remote office setup.

• Flexible remote work options, available occasionally or on a permanent basis.

• A collaborative and inclusive work culture.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.