Data Domain Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Life.Church wants to make a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world. Our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That's how we’re able to make a difference, and it's the driving force behind everything we do.

The Data Domain Manager is responsible for serving as the strategic bridge between data capabilities and domain outcomes. This role owns the end-to-end data strategy for an assigned domain, ensuring data initiatives directly enable and improve the mobile app user experience. The Data Domain Manager partners with cross-functional teams to align data strategy with product priorities, driving trusted data solutions that support informed decision making and organizational goals.

This role operationally supports the team's direction, initiatives, and ministry efforts to achieve outcomes that further Life.Church’s mission and reach people for Christ.

What You'll Do

Own Domain Strategy and Roadmapping

• Translate domain product roadmaps into data requirements, identifying opportunities where data can unlock user value before engineering teams start building.
• Represent the data perspective early in product planning and throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain a domain-specific data roadmap aligned with YouVersion's strategic priorities.
• Partner with Engineering teams to ensure foundational capabilities support domain needs.

Drive Data Delivery and Accountability

• Prioritize and sequence domain data work to balance strategic initiatives with operational requests.
• Build institutional knowledge of domain-specific metrics, user journeys, and business logic.
• Own the quality and trustworthiness for domain-specific datasets from ingestion through insight.
• Apply governance and data quality standards while adapting them to domain-specific needs.
• Ensure proper instrumentation, documentation, and accessibility of domain data assets.

Foster Collaboration with Key Stakeholders

• Serve as primary data partner to product managers, engineering leads, domain leaders and executives.
• Communicate data insights and opportunities in business context, connecting technical work to user outcomes.
• Manage expectations and communicate tradeoffs when prioritizing data work.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Strong product thinking skills, with the ability to translate business objectives into clear data requirements and translate data insights back into actionable business outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to clearly present complex data concepts to executive audiences.
• Deep knowledge of the end-to-end data lifecycle, including data collection, storage, transformation, analysis, and activation.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Effective at self-leadership, prioritizing work, and managing multiple responsibilities while meeting deadlines.
• Ability to make sound decisions, solve problems, and adapt to changing priorities with minimal direction.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, data science, or a related field with demonstrated progression into strategic responsibilities.
• Experience with modern data stacks, mobile app analytics, or consumer digital products, including domains such as consumer engagement, marketing technology, and platform/B2B products preferred.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons. 
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health. 
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase. 
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment! 
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth. 
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

Our Beliefs, Culture, and Commitment to Diversity

At Life.Church, every staff member, and intern is a minister and is expected to engage in the church's ministry fully. We consider ministry readiness and an individual’s capacity to represent Life.Church’s beliefs as a minister during the selection process for all staff and intern positions. An essential function within every position held by a staff member or intern at Life.Church is to uphold and represent the beliefs of Life.Church. Learn more about what we believe at Life.Church.

While we unite around our mission, we know unity doesn’t mean uniformity. Our calling is too great, and our mission is too important not to be intentional about strengthening our team through diversity. We know that diverse perspectives in race, ethnicity, background, age, and gender are essential to reaching the world for Christ. To learn more about how we strengthen our team through diversity, visit our careers page.

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