Remote Director, Data Strategy and Analytics

Summary

Join Great Minds as a Director, Strategy & Analytics to lead the development of performance analytics capabilities and drive business strategy across Sales, Marketing, and Success functions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in analytics, finance, management consulting or professional services with 5+ years in a leadership position
• Experience leading a general strategy and analytics team or leading a sales and marketing analytics function
• Exceptional intellectual curiosity with strong ability to lead with asking questions to understand and conceptual and strategic understanding of problems
• Strong working knowledge of programming skills and ability to utilize a variety of data/analytic software/languages/tools (e.g., SQL, Python, R) and data visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI)
• Strong working knowledge of data and systems from CRMs (e.g., Salesforce, Hubspot) and ERP (e.g., Intacct) systems
• Understanding of modern analytics pipelines (e.g., gathering data, ETL, automation, engineering, databases and storage, reshaping/cleaning/calculations, analysis, visualization)
• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly using presentation tools to tell a story through the data, with the confidence and composure to partner with executive management
• Track record of leading simultaneous initiatives, requiring collaboration across teams and functional areas, with tight deadlines; ability to balance short- & long-term strategic implications to meet business objectives
• Work ethic with the ability to adapt to the situation, be flexible, resourceful, and agile in terms of work planning, and the ability to think quickly on your feet
• Bachelor’s degree in a Finance, Math, Computer Science or Engineering discipline

Responsibilities

• Manage and expand strategy & analytics function to assist leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Success to understand performance against KPIs and use data and insights to inform core business challenges and strategy
• Act as a leader to build a culture and establish a system of data-driven performance management at the team and individual levels to inform annual and day-to-day management of Sales, Marketing, and Success functions
• Build a system of modern, self-service analytics products and reporting tools, working closely with line managers and teams that manage source data systems across marketing, CRM, and fulfillment data systems
• Coordinate with the Enterprise Applications and Data Team to support the ongoing maintenance of analytics tools, reports, and dashboards
• Operate as a player-coach, managing the priorities and projects of team of analysts while independently conducting high-impact analyses
• Facilitate monthly and quarterly business reviews with Sales, Marketing, and Success leadership regarding performance against key divisional and individual KPIs
• Conduct complex analyses to support strategic decision making and planning (e.g., workforce capacity planning) throughout the year in collaboration with Sr. Leadership and turn into serviceable analytics tasks for a team of analysts
• Provide thought leadership and strategic thinking to translate business problems into analytical framework(s) and independently recommend actions to improve business performance
• Influence enterprise point-of-view on data product management, modern data pipelines, and advanced analytics and recommend projects to improve underlying infrastructure in collaboration with IT, Enterprise Applications, and Digital teams
• Support enterprise-wide projects to improve the quality and integrity of data across our core operational systems
• Build a sales and marketing analytics capability to support a high-growth sales engine
• Lead and mentor a team of analysts and support staff

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical expertise regarding data models, database design, data mining and segmentation techniques
• Strong knowledge and understanding of experimental A/B test design and execution, analytic processes, predictive modeling, tools and technologies to drive solution development at scale. Be able to translate business requirements to analytical framework
• Interest in K-12 public education, and an understanding of how data is and can be used to drive change from leadership all the way to the classroom

Benefits

• Full-time position
• Remote work option