Senior Director, Head of Data Engineering

Senior Director, Head of Data Engineering

LastPass is looking for a Senior Director, Head of Data Engineering:

As the Senior Director, Head of Data Engineering you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data strategy, driving the execution of data initiatives and fostering a data-driven culture to meet our business objectives. You will lead a talented team of data professionals and collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to leverage data as a strategic asset. 

If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!

Who will you work with?

This is a cross-functional company leadership role. You will be partnering with business leaders, peers and teams across Sales, Marketing, Product, G&A, CX and Engineering to build data capabilities and solutions.  

 What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?

  • Define and articulate an overarching data vision and strategy aligned with LastPass's business objectives. Develop and execute a comprehensive plan to scale data products and solutions that address various business needs.  
  • Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of data analysts, data and machine learning engineers, and infrastructure engineers. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the data organization. 
  • Oversee the management and scaling of LastPass' data infrastructure and platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, trust and performance that support the company's growth and innovation. 
  • Partner closely with business and technical leaders to understand their challenges, define data-driven products and solutions, and deliver insights that drive LastPass' product and business strategy forward. 
  • Implement an approach for holistic prioritization to ensure resources are aligned to the highest impact and highest value initiatives. Collaborate across the company to align work efforts and develop strategic and tactical plans. 
  • Be a thought leader, identify high impact project opportunities and process changes, and improve productivity of the overall Data Team 
  • Implement data governance and compliance standards, policies and processes in partnership with the broader data community at LastPass, to ensure alignment on metrics, definitions, improving overall data integrity and data quality  
  • Be a thought leader, identify high impact project opportunities and process changes, and improve productivity of the overall Data Team 
  • Implement data governance and compliance standards, policies and processes in partnership with the broader data community at LastPass, to ensure alignment on metrics, definitions, improving overall data integrity and data quality  

What does it take to work at LastPass?

  • Successful track record of leading an impactful data organization that enabled SaaS products and businesses with data solutions.
  • You demonstrate strong business acumen, along with excellent business partnering and collaboration skills.
  • You take the initiative to identify high-impact projects and work cross-functionally to execute and realize LastPass’s business objectives and strategies. 
  • Deep experience building and scaling high-performing teams, including developing senior leaders, managing data science, data analytics or related teams.
  • You have had many years of hands-on experience in designing, architecting and developing data solutions (ETL, Modeling, Analytics or Reporting).
  • Deep experience in architecting cloud based data-warehouse and data lake solutions (e.g. Databricks, AWS S3, Snowflake etc.), powering data visualization platforms (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, etc.)  
  • Expert-level skills in SQL, Python/R and statistical methods.
  • Experience implementing Data governance & lineage programs.
  • Experience implementing machine learning models for predictive business outcomes.
  • Experience with data security, data privacy and access control policies and methodologies/techniques to help enable them at scale.
  • Strong organizational skills and planning prowess, with excellent attention to detail. 
  • Growth mindset: you seek out learning opportunities for yourself and the team.
  • Effective communication skills: you can build the story and then tell it just as well.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $200,000 in the lowest geographic market and up to $290,000 per year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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