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Vice President, Data
Vice President, Data
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About Us
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
About the Role
As our VP of Data, you will report to the CTO and oversee all four of our data teams: Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, and Content Analytics. On the infrastructure and data science side, your team will own all data infrastructure for The Athletic: MySQL and DynamoDB production databases, analytics data streaming pipeline using Kubernetes, Kafka, EMR (Spark), S3, Airflow, DBT, and Redshift, all hosted in AWS. Among other things, the teams you oversee will work on: scaling our data infrastructure, building and deploying data science models, creating data models, and monitoring data quality in supporting our product and analytics teams.
On the analytics side, the Data Analytics team is primarily responsible for creation/analysis of business metrics and its members typically embed directly with our product teams, working closely with PMs and engineers. The Content Analytics team works directly with our editorial team to produce data and analytics for our writers and give them feedback on and insight into how their content is performing.
Responsibilities
- Be a leader within the company, responsible for the output of all data-focused teams within the company: Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Content Analytics. Architect solutions, provide mentorship, give guidance, communicate across teams and departments.
- Partner with Product, Marketing, Engineering teams to build and deploy pipelines and features backed by machine learning and modern data toolsets.
- Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions.
- Manage development of data resources, gather requirements, organize sources, and support product launches
- Build/maintain/own dashboards, metrics, and alerting to monitor the performance of our data quality
- Own data ecosystem including stability of internal structure and connection with external data vendors
- Articulate, evangelize and pursue a long-term vision for Data at The Athletic, and foster a data-driven culture of innovation throughout the company.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field
- 10+ years data experience
- 5+ years of experience in leading data engineering / data science / data analytics teams
- 5+ years of experience with Python, SQL or other programming languages
- 2+ years of experience with Docker, AWS, or similar environment
- Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
- Experience communicating to executive team and project stakeholders
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Redshift, and Spark
- Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop).
- Experience with data science or managing a data science team
- Experience with DBT and other BI data modeling tools
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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