Director, Data Strategy & Analytics

Role overview Lead an organization’s data strategy and business analytics function, turning revenue, operational, and customer information into insights that guide decisions and improve performance. The role manages analysts and provides strategic direction across analytics and data engineering, with responsibility for business intelligence systems, self-service analytics, and responsible data use.

Responsibilities - Set the data and analytics strategy, prioritize work, and develop a high-performing team of analysts. - Oversee analysis, metrics, models, dashboards, and quality review, ensuring outputs are accurate and useful to decision-makers. - Build self-service analytics, including AI-assisted tools, with guidance that supports adoption and appropriate use. - Partner with sales, marketing, customer success, and executives to define business needs, metrics, and data requirements. - Guide business intelligence platform strategy, vendor relationships, and cross-functional data governance. - Coordinate with data engineering on data infrastructure, warehouse needs, integrations, and AI capabilities.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative, business, or technical field; an advanced degree is preferred. - At least 10 years in analytics or data strategy, including 5 or more years leading or managing analytics teams. - Strong quantitative skills and experience with visualization, statistical modeling or machine learning, and go-to-market analysis. - Professional experience with SQL, a BI platform, and Python or R; working knowledge of data engineering and cloud data platforms. - Background in BI governance, metric definition, data quality, and analytics tools or vendor management. - Strong communication and prioritization skills, including the ability to explain complex findings to executive and nontechnical audiences.

Nice to have Experience with sales and customer data platforms, or in a B2B or government-focused software organization.

Benefits and work setup Remote-first role for candidates who reside and work in the United States. A reliable broadband connection is required; the organization also provides reimbursement for home-office setup.