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Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design'' by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more. Monotype specializes in the design, development, licensing, and management of typefaces and font technologies for the world’s biggest global brands and individual creative professionals, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences.   Want to learn more about who we are, what we do, and how you can become part of our team of over 1,000 talented employees across the globe? Visit us at www.monotype.com.

Monotype is looking for a business-focused data leader to play a key role on a new team focused on maximizing the value of data throughout Monotype. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a diverse global team, focused on a specific data domain, responsible for data quality, profiling, governance, cataloging, management, storage, analytics and insights for specific data sets housed across disparate systems. You will work with other data product leaders, system owners, stakeholders and customers across the organization to identify pain points and priorities, partnering with engineering, data science and AI to deliver viable, scalable and innovative solutions.

As the leader for the inventory data domain, you will specifically be responsible for our inventory data quality and data governance by driving incremental improvements to the data, systems, and processes to create a solid foundation for growth at Monotype.  You will create and own the PIM (Product Information Management) & inventory data roadmaps that include driving the existing business, new technical features, and operational changes (i.e., data cleanup, repository overhauls, new process implementations, new dashboards, integration of new data from acquisitions, etc.).

As the leader for the Entity data domain, you will specifically be responsible for data strategy, quality and governance and for organizations (customers and partners) and related persons data housed in our Salesforce CRM, Shopify platform and other associated systems, ensuring consistency and usability. You will work with systems owners to drive incremental improvements to the data, systems, and processes, creating a solid foundation for growth and innovation at Monotype.  You will create and own the Entity data roadmap encompassing storage, platform and security decisions, data cleanup, repository overhauls, new process implementations, analytics and integration of new data from acquisitions or vendors.

What you’ll be doing:

• Serve as the domain data subject matter expert to drive a strong understanding of the data and its use across lines of business and functions.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy and roadmap, for domain data solutions, that aligns with company objectives and address business department needs, ensuring delivery of high-impact data solutions.

• Full ownership of the domain data lifecycle including aligning on data definitions, dictionaries, appropriate terminology, data collection, management and disposal.

• Collaboratively engage and partner with key, cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business needs, ensure alignment, reduce data silos and drive change management.

• Establish, track and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of data solutions and identify opportunities for improvement (data quality, accessibility, security, and controls), driving decision-making and actions.

• Manage and lead a diverse, global team of data product analysts focused on executing data changes, establishing data reporting, fixing data issues, and developing new integrations.

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver innovative data products that solve data usability challenges and unlock business value.

• Gather, coordinate, document, translate and define data requirements between data producers and consumers, including all upstream and downstream areas that create, ingest, and/or consume data to support data quality and remediation efforts.

• Deliver high-quality, insights-ready, usable data products (reporting, analytics, data sets) that free business teams to spend less time focused on data wrangling and manual intervention and more time focused on advanced analytics and efficient business operations

• Develop, document, and communicate data governance strategy and policy in a concise and clear way to different levels of internal and external stakeholders, championing data governance best practices.

• Appropriately assess risk, demonstrating consideration for Monotype, our clients, vendors and partners by driving compliance with applicable rules, laws, regulations, contracts, company policies, collaborating closely with security, privacy and platform teams across the company.

• Apply sound ethical judgement regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices and escalating, managing and reporting issues with transparency.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience.

• 8-10 years of relevant business-focused data management, including data analysis, lineage, metadata assignment, quality, profiling, remediation, governance and issue management.

• Expertise generating and communicating clear and insightful analytics, reporting and data visualization.

• Proven experience (2+ years) building and leading team, identifying gaps in expertise and developing team members to their potential.

• Strong understanding of data governance issues, policies, contractual and regulatory requirements, roles and responsibilities.

• Solid knowledge of data storage and engineering principles.

• Comfortable extracting and manipulating data in SQL or similar data exploration tools.

• Demonstrated analytical thinking, business acumen, and knack for working backwards from the customer's needs in a highly cross-functional environment.

• Empathetic communicator and cross-functional collaborator with solution-oriented mindset; strong presentation, business and technical writing skills.

• Self-motivated, independent, and able to dynamically determine priorities and lead change management across an organization.

Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 
 

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