Director, Analytics
UpGuard
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Australia
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About the role
- Actionable Insight: Generate compelling and actionable insights from complex data sets that directly lead to demonstrable commercial success across the organisation.
- Stakeholder engagement: Establish strong collaborative relationships and engage closely with key stakeholders across all departments of the company, to effectively prioritise and drive high-impact data analytics initiatives.
- Business Intelligence: Partner strategically with the A3 team to not only provide robust self-service conversational analytics capabilities but also to meticulously utilise design thinking principles for the creation of critical, user-friendly dashboards.
- Data Products: Work with the data engineering team to design, construct, and maintain foundational data assets and robust data products for reliable, organisation-wide consumption and use.
- Automation: Proactively identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive manual data analysis across the business by leveraging cutting-edge, state-of-the-art data science capabilities and machine learning models, in close partnership with the lead data scientist.
- Deep Dive analysis: Personally conduct thorough, hands-on, and highly technical data analysis to effectively diagnose and solve the most significant and complex business challenges facing the company.
Requirements
- Proven Leadership: 3+ years leading an Analytics function within a high-growth SaaS company.
- Scaling Experience: Demonstrated experience transforming an existing Analytics function in partnership with Data Engineering.
- Data Infrastructure Expertise: Strong understanding of modern data infrastructure (e.g., cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery; ETL/ELT tools; dbt model development; modern data visualisation tools like ThoughtSpot, OMNI, Looker).
- Exceptional Business Acumen: Ability to quickly understand complex business problems, identify key performance indicators, and translate data into strategic insights that drive tangible business value.
- Communication & Influence: Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, with the ability to articulate complex analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and influence decision-making.
- Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Highly analytical and strategic mindset, with a proven track record of developing and executing data strategies that align with business objectives.
- Team Development: Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining top analytical talent.
- Data Development: Directly engage in the creation of fundamental data and Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure and assets.
Benefits
- Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being
- WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard
- $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance
- Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries.
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role
- Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave
- Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance
- Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role
- Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data analysisdata engineeringdata sciencemachine learningdata visualizationETLELTdbtdashboard designbusiness intelligence
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder engagementcommunicationinfluencestrategic thinkinganalytical thinkingteam developmentcollaborationproblem-solvingbusiness acumen