Director of Analytics
Sage Dental
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in North America
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About the role
- Set the analytics strategy: Define and execute a multi-year analytics roadmap aligned with organizational goals, working closely with the CTO and executive leadership.
- Lead and grow the team: Manage and mentor the existing analytics and BI team while developing a hiring roadmap to strategically expand capabilities over time.
- Drive self-service adoption: Champion a culture of data-driven decision-making by designing and rolling out the Omni-based self-service experience.
- Deliver advanced analytics: Introduce predictive models, forecasting, and statistical methods to move the organization beyond descriptive reporting into proactive, prescriptive insights.
- Own the metrics layer: Govern and evolve the organization’s metric definitions, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and trust across all reporting surfaces as we transition to the new platform.
- Partner with the business: Collaborate with clinical, operations, finance, and HR leadership to identify high-impact analytical opportunities and deliver actionable insights.
- Shape the modern BI platform: Work alongside data engineering to define how analytics are built and consumed on Databricks and Omni.
- Drive decisions on semantic modeling, report migration strategy, and the overall analytics architecture—ensuring the new platform is not just a lift-and-shift but a genuine step forward in capability.
- Manage the migration: Own the analytics side of the platform transition, including prioritizing which reports and dashboards migrate first, managing stakeholder expectations during the cutover, and ensuring zero loss of critical reporting continuity.
- Establish analytical rigor: Implement frameworks for experimentation, A/B testing, and measurement that help the organization make confident, evidence-based decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data science, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing and growing analytics teams.
- Proven track record of building and scaling analytics functions within complex, multi-site, or healthcare organizations, including hiring plans and team structure decisions.
- Deep expertise in modern analytics platforms; hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, or similar lakehouse architectures is strongly preferred.
- Experience standing up a BI or semantic layer on a modern data platform—not just inheriting one, but making foundational decisions about how analytics are modeled and delivered.
- Experience with BI tools such as Omni, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI, with a strong point of view on enabling self-service analytics at scale.
- Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large, complex data models spanning clinical, financial, and operational domains.
- Familiarity with predictive modeling, statistical analysis, or machine learning techniques and when to apply them in a business context.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience managing through a major platform migration or BI modernization effort, including stakeholder communication and change management.
Benefits
- Be part of a purpose-driven organization transforming dental care.
- Collaborate with a passionate, innovative team.
- Access to cutting-edge technology and professional development resources.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
analytics strategypredictive modelingstatistical analysisSQLA/B testingdata modelingBI toolssemantic modelingdata scienceanalytics architecture
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecision-makingorganizational skillschange managementanalytical rigorevidence-based decision makingstakeholder management