Director, Data Strategy (Contract)

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Role and Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional engagements, and ensures cohesive delivery across competencies. 
• Conducts data strategy programming, including assessing data signals, KPI setting, ecosystem and readiness assessments, co-innovation studio sessions, roadmapping deliverables, and value creation cycles. 
• Assesses client data maturity, understands stakeholder needs, facilitates prioritization, and coordinates a strategic data and agile roadmap of program activities
• Design Marketing Data Warehouses, ingesting data from web analytics, CRM, and media platforms, using appropriate cloud infrastructure for automation, and oversee technical team in execution 
• Design Reporting Suites for marketing data stakeholders, collecting requirements, creating functional wireframes, and tracking change requests, using interactive techniques to collaborate with clients
• Provides perspectives on necessary data advancement recommendations, including business intelligence and statistical analysis, machine learning and AI, or other data activities to support business outcomes
• Uses the results of analysis to communicate program success and persuade account and client stakeholders for expansion and investment, including opportunities for accelerator engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in digital, consulting, or analytics
• Breadth of experience across cloud technologies (Snowflake, GCP, AWS, Azure) and ability to speak to their capabilities as they relate to customer, digital, and operational data and digital analytics
• Functional expertise with data warehousing in Snowflake and Google Cloud Platform 
• Functional expertise with BI platforms like Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio 
• Experience incorporating digital marketing data (CRM, Paid Media, Social, etc) into solution design, using various methods of extraction
• Knowledge and familiarity with digital analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) is preferred 
• Industry knowledge of the advanced analytics landscape
• Understanding of data governance, compliance, and privacy issues
• Maintain subject matter expertise as platforms evolve, including leading development of playbooks and documentation for scaling solutions
• Collaborate with internal marketing team on strategic collateral, collaborative case studies, or other marketing materials
• Work with CSEs and BD to support pitches for new business or additional follow-on work for clients
• Maintain billable utilization while uncovering additional project opportunities