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ROLE OVERVIEW

As Director, Data Products and Analytics Strategy, you will lead the strategy and delivery of trusted, full-stack data products across GTM, Finance, Customer, Product, Marketing, and other enterprise domains - from well-governed dbt data models and semantic metrics through to decision-ready Tableau dashboards and AI-ready analytical assets.

This is a senior, hands-on role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with clear technical expectations. You will work with senior business and functional leaders to frame business questions, clarify requirements, align metrics, and sequence the enterprise analytics roadmap. You will also personally build and review production-grade dbt models, complex SQL and Python analysis, and dashboards at the same standard expected of our strongest data-product builders. You will work closely with the Analytics Engineering, BI, Governance, and AI/ML leaders across our Enterprise Data team and SME Domain Experts, leading through influence and connecting priorities to delivery

The right candidate combines technical depth, sound judgement, and the ability to work effectively with senior leaders. You can open a dbt project, trace a metric to its source, write the SQL or Python needed to resolve an issue, build a useful dashboard, and explain the trade-offs and recommendations clearly to a senior business audience.

We are looking for someone based in the Bay Area who can be in our San Francisco office on Wednesdays to be a close collaborator with Business Applications ,GTM Tech and Marketing leadership based in the region.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and maintain a cross-domain data products and analytics strategy spanning GTM, Finance, Customer, Product, Marketing, and other priority business areas, translating enterprise goals into a sequenced, outcome-focused roadmap

• Work with senior business and functional leaders to frame business questions, translate ambiguous requirements into clear metric and product specifications, and align on practical measures of success

• Design, build, and review production-grade dbt data models across staging, intermediate, and mart layers following SolarWinds modelling standards and creating consumption-ready, well-tested data products

• Partner with domain delivery leads each quarter to jointly identify the highest-value, highest-complexity initiatives, and take a direct, hands-on build role on that critical subset — reinforcing delivery capacity rather than creating a parallel workstream

• Use advanced SQL and Python for transformation, data quality, automation, exploratory analysis, custom dbt macros, and performance investigation — remaining hands-on enough to validate solutions in the codebase

• Build or oversee high-quality Tableau dashboards and self-serve analytics assets from requirements through stakeholder sign-off, ensuring the experience is performant, understandable, and grounded in governed models and metrics

• Drive alignment of cross-domain metrics, semantic definitions, lineage, and documentation with business owners and Governance, creating a trusted analytical language without taking ownership of source-system processes