Director of Data Job Description

Director of Data Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Director of Data to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for team to execute requirements / solutions;
  • Understands and uses data analysis and modeling techniques;
  • Works closely with Product team to understand customer data needs;
  • Manage the day to day work and career development for a team of data analysts, data engineers and in the future, data scientists;
  • Strategically manages relationships with data partners;
  • Translate product needs into technical requirements;
  • Hands-on (technical/data analysis leadership, mentors others);
  • When applicable, translate product needs into data models and analytical solutions;
  • Responsible for internal documentation of Traackr’s data and knowledge transfer to other Traackr teams;
  • Mentors and manages team members;
  • Responsible for the integrity of Traackr’s data: data entering or leaving the Traackr platform, reporting on data quality.

Requirements:

  • Strong presentation skills, able to clearly communicate results to stakeholders at all levels;
  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Math, Economics, Engineering, or similar;
  • Able to tackle ambiguous problems, execute analysis, prioritize work and deliver projects on time;
  • Experience with Python (Pandas/SciPy), R or equivalent;
  • 7+ years of experience as a data engineer, data scientist, data analyst or equivalent;
  • Hands on experience in data-driven projects (e.g. analytics, measurement, modeling, machine learning);
  • 2+ years experience in a people management capacity;
  • Experience with databases (Experience with data-warehousing would be a plus);
  • Advanced degrees (MA / MS / MBA / PhD);
  • Big data engineering / database maintenance skills;
  • R and/or Python;
  • Stats and/or Machine Learning;
  • Management experience;
  • Experience in casual and/or female-focused mobile games.