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.