Power BI Lead, HeadSpin
Real device testing platform for mobile, web & OTT
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Real device testing platform for mobile, web & OTT
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help every company perfect the digital experience by delivering consistent, high-quality testing across a vast network of real devices and platform in over 50 global locations.
Role
Who you are
- The role requires equal parts technical depth, design discipline, and stakeholder credibility across operations, IT/Engineering, and executive leadership
- Advanced Power BI Desktop - complex data models, composite models, DirectQuery
- Advanced DAX - time intelligence, iterators, context transition, dynamic measures
- Power Query / M - multi-source transformation, parameterization, error handling
- SQL proficiency - query optimization, joins, aggregations against relational DBs
- Familiarity with data warehouse concepts - star schema, slowly changing dimensions
- Power BI Service administration - workspaces, deployment pipelines, RLS, gateway
- Version control fundamentals (Git or equivalent)
- Proven ability to define BI standards and enforce adoption across a team
- Experience designing executive-facing dashboards with clear KPI storytelling
- Mortgage/lending industry familiarity - pipeline metrics, pull-through, cycle time, regulatory reporting
- Ability to translate ambiguous business asks into structured analytical requirements
- Player/coach orientation - willing to stay hands-on while providing oversight
- Comfortable presenting to and defending design decisions with executive stakeholders
- Present data clearly with business context - not just numbers, but meaning
- Manage expectations on what is and isn't measurable given data availability
- Defend design and methodology decisions concisely and with confidence
- Translate user requests into structured data requirements without jargon
- Manage intake prioritization transparently - explain trade-offs clearly
- Deliver reports that are self-service where feasible, reducing dependency
- Engage technically - able to discuss schema design, query performance, and data pipeline impacts
- Provide clear reporting requirements upstream so data is structured correctly at the source
- Flag reporting blockers caused by data quality or model gaps with specificity
What the job involves
- The Power BI Lead is the technical and architectural authority for all BI reporting across MCP/LOS
- This person sets the standard - owns the semantic layer, governs the data model, mentors the analyst, and manages intake - while remaining hands-on building the most complex reports and dashboards
- Design and own the Power BI semantic layer (datasets, shared models, calculated measures)
- Define the strategy for sourcing data from both MCP/LOS directly and the data warehouse/mart
- Establish medallion or equivalent layering conventions for data freshness and reliability
- Govern gateway configuration, scheduled refresh, and performance optimization
- Define and enforce naming conventions, measure libraries, and report templates
- Own workspace organization, access control, and row-level security (RLS) patterns
- Establish version control and deployment pipeline practices (e.g., PBIP/Git)
- Maintain documentation standards for datasets, measures, and data lineage
- Build and own the most complex reports - executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, regulatory outputs
- Write advanced DAX for complex time intelligence, ratios, and dynamic filtering
- Design Power Query/M transformations from both MCP DB and warehouse sources
- Review and approve analyst-produced reports before publishing to business stakeholders
- Manage and prioritize the BI request intake queue across all stakeholder groups
- Assign, scope, and review analyst work; provide technical mentorship
- Represent BI capability in cross-functional planning and project discussions
- Partner with IT/Engineering on data model changes that affect reporting
Our take
Nowadays, organizations need testing platforms to assure optimal digital experiences across mobile and web delivery channels. This is what US-based HeadSpin offers, with services for development, QA, product, and operations teams around the world.
HeadSpin is a software-testing platform that allows users to test and debug mobile, web, audio, and video applications remotely on devices located worldwide. Since being conceived, the platform’s on-prem and cloud-hosted global device infrastructure has been expanded to test various applications in real-time.
The company is trusted by thousands of enterprise customers, including Microsoft, TikTok, Yahoo, Uber, AirBnB, and so on. It has taken advantage of the opportunity as enterprises transition to provide more digital experiences. Now, it continues to invest in developing new product offerings.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.7m
Company HQ
Riverside, CA
Leadership
Eric Hatton
(CEO)Also CEO at Evolving Systems where they have worked in various roles since 2012 - including COO and GM.
Jennifer Welesko
(CFO)Jennifer is also the CFO at NetWitness, Cincom Systems and Fidelis Security.
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