About the Role

Ontra is seeking a Senior Director, Data reporting to our Chief Product Officer.

For this job, we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States. For more information on where we employ, please see below. 

We’re looking for someone excited to champion enterprise-wide data management, drive innovative analytics initiatives, ensure data quality and integrity, and proactively translate insights into meaningful strategies for stakeholders.

If you are a visionary leader with exceptional analytical prowess, a knack for innovation, and a talent for cultivating team growth, we’d love to get to know you!

What You’ll Do

• Lead Data Team: Lead and scale a high-performing data organization, including data engineers, analysts, and scientists. Define team goals, mentor talent, and foster career development and growth.
• Define Data Vision and Strategy: Define and implement the company’s data vision and strategy translating the strategy into actionable priorities and initiatives.
• Uphold Data Standards: Standardize data collection, storage, and usage practices across teams. Define and evolve data governance policies, ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and ethical standards.
• Manage Data Infrastructure & Engineering: Oversee the architecture and scalability of data pipelines, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, and storage.  Ensure data quality, integrity, and accessibility for business intelligence and analytics.  
• Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Partner with organizational leaders to understand business needs and deliver on cross-functional data initiatives that help stakeholders make informed business decisions for their functions.
• Inform and Enable the Business: Build a robust, self-service data platform and provide data insights to drive business decisions and identify opportunities for growth and product innovation.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in data analytics and recommend solutions to enhance Ontra’s data capabilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 10+ years in data analysis/science with 5+ years building and managing teams, preferably at high-growth companies
• Visualization expertise: Proficiency in Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel, and Segment or other data visualization tools
• Programming expertise: A strong background using SQL and Python to manipulate and analyze data
• Communication skills: The ability to articulate complex data concepts and insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders of various levels throughout the organization
• Attention to detail: The ability to ensure data accuracy and reliability in all analyses across your teams