Director of Data
Overview
Hi there,
I’m Otto, the COO and Co-founder at TestGorilla. We’re a fast-growing HR tech startup that helps teams make better hiring decisions faster and bias-free.
Over the past years, we’ve experienced tremendous growth. More than 10,000 companies have replaced CVs with our assessments to screen candidates in an unbiased and data-driven way.
As we scale our efforts in 2024 and beyond, we’re looking for a Director of Data who’s passionate about high growth and helping people land dream jobs.
Job Description
As a Director of Data, you will own and spearhead the establishment of centralized data governance, engineering, analytics enablement, and data science enablement.
You will craft and execute a comprehensive data strategy, build and lead a remote data team, and design and maintain a robust data infrastructure. Your responsibilities will also include enabling advanced analytics for strategic decision-making and ensuring data privacy and compliance.
Last year, we built a data stack and enabled our teams to explore our product and financial data for self-serve analytics purposes. Now the time is right to expand our data capability to cover more use cases. For example, we aim to implement more comprehensive and consistent event tracking to support developments in existing and new parts of our product. We also aim to apply more data science to those parts of the product, and our data team has a role in enabling that.
Responsibilities
- - Developing and executing a comprehensive data strategy aligned with TestGorilla''s business objectives.
- - Taking ownership of all internal and external data governance and processes, ensuring a single source of truth, availability, and understanding of the data.
- - Building and leading a remote data team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- - Providing mentorship and guidance to team members, promoting professional development.
- - Designing and maintaining a robust data infrastructure to enable building data products as well as company-wide analytics and reporting.
- - Leveraging advanced analytics tools to derive meaningful insights that drive strategic decision-making.
- - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and align product development, analytics, data science, and ML/AI efforts with business goals.
- - Communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- - Ensuring data privacy and compliance with relevant regulations, working closely with the DevSecOps team.
- - Implementing and maintaining best practices for data security and confidentiality.
- - Staying up-to-date on industry trends and emerging technologies, incorporating innovations into TestGorilla''s data practices.
- - Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of data processes.
Required Skills
- - You are inspired by our mission to place 1 billion people in dream jobs.
- - You are fully aligned with our values.
- - Proven experience in a leadership role overseeing and building data teams.
- - Strong background in data management and analytics.
- - Experienced in remote team management.
- - Proficiency across the data tool stack, incl. data warehouses, data modeling tools, ETL tools, and BI tools.
- - Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., Python, R) and SQL.
- - Experienced leadership and team management skills with clear communication and interpersonal abilities, particularly in a remote working environment.
- - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- - Appetite to operate at 30,000 ft while also, at times, rolling up your sleeves.
- - Experience enabling ML models.
Benefits
- - Compensation range between €130,000- €153,000 per annum + Share Appreciation Rights
- - Flexible hours and asynchronous environment
- - Paid parental leave
- - Remote working budget: €1,000 per year (pro-rata based on your start date)
- - Learning & development budget: 3.5% of base compensation
About the company
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