Senior Director Data Platform & Strategy

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential B2B media organization in their search for a Senior Director of Data Platform & Strategy. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll own the strategy, architecture, implementation, and commercialization of an enterprise data platform. You'll be equally comfortable designing multi-year roadmaps for executive leadership and building pipelines and data models yourself.

This position comes with a defined implementation roadmap and clear first-year priorities that will be shared during the interview process. You'll partner closely with Digital, Product, Technology, Audience Development, Finance, Sales, Editorial, and commercial teams to transform audience data into a strategic business asset.

Responsibilities

Data Platform Build-Out & Architecture

• Lead the implementation and optimization of a centralized cloud data platform, driving consolidation and modernization of enterprise data assets
• Design and build modern data architecture, data models, and data standards that scale across a multi-brand, multi-market environment
• Design and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines, data ingestion frameworks, orchestration, and data quality processes
• Establish DataOps practices, monitoring, observability, documentation, and engineering standards
• Evaluate and implement technologies that support data scalability, automation, and operational efficiency

Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance

• Define and execute enterprise data strategy and roadmap
• Develop a scalable data foundation that supports analytics, audience intelligence, personalization, reporting, and AI initiatives
• Create a roadmap for integrating audience, behavioral, registration, engagement, campaign, CRM, and revenue data into a unified ecosystem
• Establish governance frameworks, data-access controls, retention standards, and documentation processes
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Information Security teams to ensure compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA

Audience Intelligence & Data Monetization

• Build audience intelligence capabilities that support lead generation, ABM, intent data, segmentation, personalization, and audience activation
• Develop strategies to transform first-party audience data into new commercial products and services
• Partner with commercial leadership to identify and execute new revenue opportunities through privacy-safe data collaboration
• Build scalable reporting, benchmarking, and intelligence products for internal and external stakeholders

AI & Advanced Analytics

• Prepare the data ecosystem to support AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, and agent-based applications
• Ensure enterprise data is structured, governed, and accessible for current and future AI initiatives
• Partner with Product and Technology teams to support AI-powered audience intelligence, content, and sales enablement solutions
• Identify opportunities for automation and advanced analytics across the organization

Execution & Stakeholder Management

• Lead cross-functional data initiatives in phases across multiple departments
• Build and manage relationships with strategic technology partners and vendors
• Develop project plans, timelines, resource requirements, and success metrics
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders
• Serve as an internal evangelist for data-driven decision making

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics, or enterprise data strategy
• At least 5 years leading complex enterprise data initiatives from strategy through execution
• Proven, hands-on experience implementing and managing enterprise cloud data platforms, including platforms such as Snowflake
• Deep expertise in data modeling, ELT/ETL design, and pipeline development
• Experience building and scaling enterprise data warehouses and audience intelligence platforms
• Strong understanding of data governance, master data management, data-access controls, and retention standards
• Experience working with privacy and compliance frameworks including GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Legal, Privacy, and Information Security teams on responsible data practices
• Experience working with CRM, marketing automation, audience, advertising, and analytics data
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to operate independently
• Excellent communication skills for presenting to executive and non-technical stakeholders

Technical Expertise:

• Cloud data platforms and modern data warehousing architectures (e.g., Snowflake)
• SQL and modern data engineering practices
• Data integration and pipeline technologies
• Data governance and master data management
• Business intelligence and reporting platforms
• Audience data, customer data platforms (CDPs), and marketing technologies
• Privacy-safe data collaboration and audience activation frameworks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with AI-enabled data platforms and cloud ecosystems, including modern AI capabilities and LLM integrations
• Exposure to agent-based applications and generative AI use cases within enterprise data environments
• Experience supporting or developing commercial data products, including data marketplace listings or external data-sharing programs

How We Work with You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our recruiting team to ensure the best experience for all parties.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai: $150,000

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