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SalaryWe are seeking a Vice President of Data & Analytics, a visionary and strategic leader passionate about leveraging data to foster innovation, operational scale, and growth. This critical role involves working closely with executive and functional leaders to shape and drive the company-wide data strategy, aligning it with our organizational objectives. Your leadership will not only inspire but will be the catalyst for change, making you an integral part of our journey towards achieving and exceeding our ambitious goals.
What You'll Do:
Strategic Focus
- Define and implement a vision for a scalable, reliable data platform and infrastructure
- Oversee the entire data lifecycle, including engineering, architecture, governance, analytics, and data science
Organizational Leadership
- Lead a multifaceted team of Data professionals to inform strategic decisions impacting product development, go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and customer experience
- Foster an environment of continuous improvement, demonstrating urgency and commitment to excellence
Data Governance
- Strategically deploy a data governance framework, collaborating across departments to enhance data quality, compliance, and accessibility
- Champion data quality and governance, ensuring adherence to policies and standards
Infrastructure and Technology Alignment
- Align data infrastructure with business needs, ensuring the adoption of advanced technologies for data discovery, quality assurance, and Analytics
- Actively participate in business and technical discussions to champion best practices in data management and Analytics
Leadership and Operational Excellence
- Serve as a change agent, accelerating the transformation to a data-centric culture
- Build trust and credibility across the organization, prioritizing data needs and delivering impactful solutions
Quality, Performance & Compliance
- Establish and maintain high data quality standards while managing costs effectively
- Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to uphold data privacy and security standards
Talent Recruitment and Development
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent, promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion within the team
- Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and high performance
Mergers and Acquisitions Expertise
- Utilize M&A experience to streamline data integration, supporting business transformation and consolidation efforts
What You’ll Need:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in Data & Analytics leadership roles, demonstrating increasing complexity, scale and responsibility
- BA/BS Degree in a relevant field
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree is desirable
- Experience leading mission-critical Data and Analytics programs, processes and infrastructure at scale (in organizations exceeding $1B revenue with 5,000+ employees globally)
- Proven experience leading B2B SaaS organizations through transformational change, building data capabilities, and turning data insights into business value
- Previous experience developing processes and operations to implement and manage data governance principles and policies, master data management, management of enterprise information assets, and approaches related to data protection and privacy
- Experience leading a large portfolio of programs/projects and associated ongoing prioritization and resource allocation
- Strong understanding of next gen data practices (ML Ops, Data Ops, Data Science) and experience applying them in an enterprise organization.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, capable of inspiring teams and driving forward-looking strategies
Remote-Ready Excellence
- Your reliable internet connection is the conduit for brilliance, enabling you to unleash your talents from the comfort of virtually anywhere.
- Rest assured, this role embodies flexibility, with typically no more than 15% travel on the horizon.
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
- Salary range in the US:
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:
- Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
- Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
- Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
- Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Learn more about life at Workiva:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/
Learn more about benefits:
https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits
Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email
talentacquisition@workiva.com
.Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
