Senior Director, Business Intelligence
Company Description
Rapid7 (Nasdaq: RPD) is advancing security with visibility, analytics, and automation delivered through our Insight cloud. Our solutions simplify the complex, allowing security teams to work more effectively with IT and development to reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. Over 8,900 customers rely on Rapid7 technology, services, and research to improve security outcomes and securely advance their organization. For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.
The Opportunity
As part of our Financial Planning & Analysis team, the Senior Director of Business Intelligence will lead our Analytics Center of Excellence and help drive informed decision-making at scale in real time for Rapid7 and our customers.
The Senior Director of Business Intelligence will join as one of the key analytical leaders for the company and manage a Center of Excellence of Analysts and Data Scientists that are responsible for building advanced analytical models, building and maintaining visualizations and working with our data engineering team, IT team and business users to create and maintain data models. Our Center of Excellence is comprised of experienced analysts working across the business to help drive informed decision making at scale. This position will report to the SVP of Financial Planning & Analysis and work directly with business leaders from our Platform and Solutions Practices, Customer Success & Experience, Marketing & Sales, Accounting & Finance and the Executive Team to meet the decision-making requirements for these groups, while leading our Power Users, Super Users and Adjunct Analysts from across the enterprise.
In this role you will:
Establish a strategic vision and roadmap for a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence that will move Rapid7 to the next stage of its analytical evolution with a greater focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics
Collaborate with departmental business heads to help define reporting and/or analytical requirements, prioritize competing requests and find creative solutions to complex challenges.
Develop an enduring and synergistic relationship with IT and Data Engineering on system architecture to support the company’s decision-making needs.
Work closely with Data Engineering team to prioritize and manage data requirements for the enterprise
Drive our enterprise-wide analytics strategy by coaching and advising the business on effective data practices enabling a more data driven workforce
Work closely with Information Security and Data Engineering teams to manage security and governance issues
Understand what drives and motivates a team in order to guide and manage a team of managers, analysts, interns and contractors, including active mentoring and guidance on career development
Utilize knowledge of data science concepts including statistics, data mining, and predictive analytics to support various business needs
Head the Data Management Council and other cross-functional teams
Perform ad-hoc data examination across a variety of business disciplines.
In return you will bring:
10 years of experience and expertise in business intelligence, data analysis, data operations, data science or other related field, preferably with some experience in Accounting or Finance and at a public company.
Experience with
Tableau or similar visualization tools;
Advanced Analytics languages such as R, Python
Business applications such as salesforce.com, Netsuite and Workday
Preferably cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift
SQL
Experience effectively managing and growing a team
Exceptional project management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to concisely present data to drive outcomes.
Critical thinking and inquisitiveness coupled with desire to continuously learn new skills
A collaborative attitude and the ability to establish solid partnerships and build consensus at all levels.
A passion for hard work and team building that allows you to thrive in an agile environment
The ability to have fun at work and foster team connectedness
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