Director of Data Analytics Platform
Company: AnyRoad
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 27, 2023
Job Description:
About AnyRoadAnyRoad is the leader in experiential marketing
software. We were founded on the belief that real-life, in-person
experiences offer brands invaluable opportunities to build
long-lasting relationships with their consumers, ultimately
creating a community of brand advocates and accelerating revenue
growth.AnyRoad offers the only unified platform for experiential
marketing that effectively connects back-end processes like
booking, ticketing, payments, and more, with first-party data
capture, consumer feedback, and analytics. Armed with our platform,
leading brands across various industries are able to streamline and
scale their event operations, drive continuous improvements in
their strategy with actionable insights, and increase the return on
investment from every experience.We're looking for an engineering
leader to help scale our Data Analytics Platform. We already have
the data foundation in place that is being leveraged by large
enterprises in the CPG, Retail and Attractions spaces to engage
with their consumers and gain powerful insights to help them build
brand loyalty. We're looking for a leader who is excited by the
opportunity to partner with a strong group of software engineers
and product leaders to shape where the AnyRoad Data Analytics
Platform goes in the future. In this role, you will report to the
VP of Engineering and work closely with the other teams to identify
and prioritize data needs and architect solutions that will ensure
our data analytics platform is innovative, scalable, resilient,
reliable, and secure. You will drive innovation by staying up to
date with emerging technologies and industry trends.Our
Experiential Marketing Platform is used to power in-person and
online experiences for some of the largest brands (e.g. Diageo,
Michaels Canada, Just Eggs, North Face, Ben & Jerrys). With already
over 1.2 million experiences per year being delivered using the
AnyRoad platform, the opportunity to drive deeper insights, connect
to external data sources (CDPs, CRMs, POS systems) is
tremendous.Within engineering, your primary responsibility is to
the people on your team - not only hiring and building it, but also
ensuring that the members are growing as engineers, doing valuable
work and thriving at AnyRoad. You enjoy being of service to your
team and to the larger engineering organization, and your
leadership is grounded in empathy and compassion. Successful
leaders value the success and growth of their team over anything
else.You will have a broad influence and impact on building and
executing our data strategy, fostering a strong development culture
and growing your teams.This role will be based out of San Francisco
office in a hybrid capacity.What You'll Do
- Build and lead the team on the design, implementation, and
delivery of data solutions in a highly ambiguous and significantly
complex problem space that have a long-term impact on a business,
organization, or technology.
- Leverage your vast experience with data ingestion, enrichment
and analysis to partner closely with product and engineers to
refine and further develop our overall strategy, build a roadmap
and help the teams execute. You bring clarity to complexity, probe
assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared
understanding.
- Be a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience
to balance trade-offs between competing interests. Be flexible,
adapting your approach to meet the needs of the team, the
customers, and the project or product.
- You will manage teams working with: OpenAI, Chat-GPT, Ruby on
Rails, React, Fivetran, Matillion, Stitch, RedShift, and Snowflake
but also have tremendous influence in the technologies we leverage
for future AnyRoad products and services
- Support the company's commitment to risk management and
protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Ensure inclusion of strong data governance, risk, security, and
data quality controls.
- Establish a strong leadership presence resulting in the ability
to forge cross-functional partnerships and drive strong
organizational results
- Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain
high-quality and diverse talent
- Collaborate with the other managers to ensure we are building
products that provide a consistent and powerful experience across
both our web and developer-focused productsWhat We're Looking For:
- Finding one person with all of the following is almost
impossible, so we are not looking for 100% coverage. If you have
experience with some of these, we'd love to talk with you:
- You have led and hired multiple teams (10+ engineers)
- You have a strong technical background in data and analytics
that allows you to advocate for, mentor and grow your
engineers
- You are skilled at communicating with executives and
non-technical leaders
- You have experience with machine learning technologies, natural
language processing, information retrieval or related
applications
- You have a track record of building and scaling resilient data
platforms, infrastructure, and systems
- You have experience with big data technologies (data
warehousing, data lakes) and ETL processes
- You have experience hiring and managing multiple first-line
managers. This won't be something you'll do right away but as the
team grows, we hope to have multiple managers.
- You have experience leading successful remote development
teams
- You are able to thrive and lead multiple cross-functional
projects at once
- You are naturally inclined to take initiative and help make an
impact on the larger Product Development organization
- You have solid organizational skills, the ability to prioritize
tasks, and keep projects on schedule$150,000 - $250,000 a
yearAnyRoad believes the workplace should be equitable, inclusive,
and inspiring for every employee. We are sharing the base salary
range for this position to provide greater transparency.In addition
to the listed base salary (cash compensation), our employees are
eligible to receive equity in the company and generous benefits.
Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to
each candidate, including qualifications, experience, job-related
skills, work location, and market conditions.About Our Engineering
TeamOur customers trust us because we fundamentally believe
quality, resilience and performance cannot be an afterthought. We
are looking to bring on someone who can help build a quality
discipline that is foundational to everything that we do. We want
to build tooling that allows us to ensure everything we ship
behaves as our customers expect. We want to understand how our
customers use our products so that we consistently ship features
that exceed their expectations.We celebrate our various
idiosyncrasies, experiences, and viewpoints, and are bound together
by the shared values of collaboration, inclusion, and love of what
we do. We value those who bring their unique expertise and
perspectives but whose natural inclination is to be selfless and
roll up their sleeves and dive in wherever needed.We are constantly
working on our culture and engineering practices. You'll play a big
role in that planning process as the team grows to 20 and 30+
engineers over the next few years.Why Join Us? - Ground-floor
opportunity at a fast-growing company in which you'll immediately
and directly impact the company's future.- We are a small,
talented, and agile team working hard to define a new product
category and having fun doing it.- Diversity and inclusion are
integral to our company's values and growth. We are proud to be a
gender-balanced organization and actively encourage applications
from underrepresented communities.- Backed by prominent investors
such as a16z, Runa Capital, BlackRock, and Kaiser Permanente.- We
are a leader in our space and work with some of the world's leading
brands.- Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks.- Hybrid &
remote work environments. We have offices in the US and a presence
across EMEA, including an office in Greece.- Emphasis on growth and
opportunities for learning and development.Our Commitment to
Diversity & InclusionAnyRoad is proud to be an equal-opportunity
employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are
committed to considering all qualified applicants regardless of
race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any
characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodation
during the job application process, please notify
people@anyroad.com for support.
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