Data Director
HybridDes Moines, Iowa, United States
Job Summary
Establish enterprise data strategy and target-state architecture to support analytics, AI, and decision-making use cases. Define data standards, patterns, and design principles for structured and unstructured data while chairing governance forums to resolve tradeoffs. Partner with IT, Finance, and business units to translate priorities into sequencing guidance and remediate critical data quality issues. Set data quality thresholds, establish ROI measurement frameworks, and ensure platform decisions align with strategic needs rather than infrastructure convenience. Communicate strategy, progress, and risks clearly to senior leadership in business terms.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or Analytics
- 10+ years of related experience
- Strong executive communication skills
- Background in manufacturing, life sciences, chemicals, CPG, or other R&D-intensive, data-complex environments
- Demonstrated success improving data quality, trust, and usability across fragmented systems and legacy platforms
- Experience partnering with IT architecture and engineering teams while setting enterprise data standards, priorities, and design expectations
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms (e.g., lakehouse architectures) and their role in enabling analytics and AI
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority
- Experience establishing or scaling data governance frameworks, stewardship models, or domain ownership structures
- A post-offer background check
- drug screen
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