Director of Data Analytics, AllTrails

• Someone with clarity of thought, an ability to integrate and analyze a great deal of information, the inspiration to spark new ideas, the organizational skills to oversee multiple complex and concurrent projects, and a personality that compels people to followership
• If this role sounds exciting and you're motivated by the idea of channeling your energy to help millions of people around the globe spend more time exploring the outdoors, then we want to talk to you
• 10+ years of proven ability in an analytical role
• Analytical curiosity
• Strong story-telling skills
• Experience and excitement for mentoring and growing the skillsets of a cross-functional, centralized team of analysts
• Ability to balance multiple workstreams and prioritize the team's roadmap
• Proficiency in pulling and joining large data sets with SQL and performing analysis using tools such as Python, R, or Excel
• Proficiency in designing and building dashboards with tools such as Apache Superset, Looker, or Tableau
• Experience in data cleansing and designing reusable tables, views, or OLAP cubes
• Ability to start with an ambiguous problem, deconstruct it into tangible steps, and work towards an impactful solution
• Scrappy and resourceful, a creative problem solver adept at navigating through ambiguity and making data-driven decisions to achieve data needs given resources at hand
• Proficiency communicating research and analysis to technical and non-technical audiences
• Self-driven, strong sense of ownership and highly organized with a proven ability to prioritize and execute on multiple concurrent initiatives. Structured thinker with a strong intuition on priorities & trade-offs
• A collaborative attitude, humility, empathy and open-mindedness

Desirable

• Reporting directly to the CFO, the Director of Data Analytics will develop and implement a data strategy that aims to deliver high quality, integrated, accessible data needed to make better business decisions, make data an asset, and unlock its value in the enterprise
• They will be shapers of company-wide data-first mindset, and evangelists of best practices around data use throughout the company
• The Head will lead and grow a centralized team of cross-functional data analysts
• The team currently has 5 members and 2 open roles. We are looking for a person who leads with humility, curiosity, and purpose
• The Director of Data Analytics will sit at the cross-section of Product, Marketing, Finance and Engineering, collaborating closely with cross-functional team leads and key stakeholders to help set the company’s strategic roadmap
• Partnering with leadership in setting and delivering strategic frameworks to measure and monitor product, marketing, and financial performance and help define key metrics
• Empowering, developing, and leading a group of talented data analysts
• Serving as the analytics domain expert, evangelizing data literacy across the company
• Driving the continuous evolution and improvement of a suite of tools to empower our teams to make data-informed decisions: dashboards, reports, ad-hoc queries, insightful observations
• Translating analytical outcomes and results into compelling narratives/presentations for key stakeholders and leadership
• Collaborating closely with the Data Science & Engineering teams, communicating gaps in data reliability or timeliness, and working to improve our analytics infrastructure
• Improving the overall efficiency of the team through the encouragement of best practices and identifying and proposing solutions to bottlenecks in the process