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POLYWOOD

VP of Data & Analytics

Syracuse, IN · On-site

The Role The VP of Data & Analytics is POLYWOOD's senior data leader, responsible for the people, platforms, and practices that turn raw data into business advantage. You'll own the enterprise data ...

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Associate Director, Data Context Enablement

Titusville, NJ

$58K - $59K/yr

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People Leader All Job Posting Locations: Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America We are searching for the best talent for Associate Director, Data Context Enablement About Innovative ...

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Director, Data Products

Boston, MA · On-site

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The Data Leads will be embedded with digital product teams where they partner directly with the Digital Product Managers to ensure product-level data accuracy, quality, and business readiness. MAJOR ...

New Balance

Director, Data Products

Boston, MA · On-site

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The Data Leads will be embedded with digital product teams where they partner directly with the Digital Product Managers to ensure product-level data accuracy, quality, and business readiness. MAJOR ...

Clubhouse

Head of Data

$250K - $315K/yr

You are an experienced data leader. You can architect and build robust data pipelines, experimentation infrastructure, metrics dashboards, and monitoring tools in your sleep. You're equally ...

City of Seattle, WA

Senior Data Systems Administrator

Seattle, WA · On-site +1

$56.23 - $65.54/hr

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Leadership and Administration Opening Date: 06/30/2026 Language Premium: No Position Description ... HSD's Data Performance and Evaluation (DPE) Team seeks a Senior Data Systems Administrator to serve ...

TEKsystems

Data & Analytics Resource

San Francisco, CA

$85 - $90/hr

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Key Requirements: • 10+ years in Data & Analytics leadership • Strong Data Engineering, Architecture, Governance, and Analytics • Experience establishing Data Product operating models and Data ...

TEKsystems

Data & Analytics Resource

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$85 - $90/hr

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  • Life

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Key Requirements: • 10+ years in Data & Analytics leadership • Strong Data Engineering, Architecture, Governance, and Analytics • Experience establishing Data Product operating models and Data ...

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A Data Leader is a senior professional responsible for developing and implementing an organization’s data strategy, ensuring that data assets are effectively managed and leveraged to drive business value. They oversee data governance, data quality, analytics initiatives, and often manage teams of data scientists, engineers, and analysts. Data Leaders play a key role in shaping data-driven decision-making, aligning data projects with business objectives, and ensuring compliance with data regulations. Their work helps organizations unlock insights from data, improve operations, and gain a competitive advantage.

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To thrive as a Data Leader, you need expertise in data analytics, data management, and strategy, often backed by an advanced degree in a quantitative field and experience in data-centric roles. Familiarity with tools like SQL, Python, data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and cloud data systems is typically required. Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills help drive organizational alignment and data-driven decision-making. These competencies are crucial for shaping effective data strategies, ensuring data quality, and delivering business value through insights.

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VP of Data & Analytics

POLYWOOD

Syracuse, IN • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 18 days ago

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Company rating: 5.4 out of 10

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45th of 51 rated furniture manufacturers

Job description

Description:

POLYWOOD | Hybrid / Remote | Reports To: Chief Digital Officer

The Opportunity

POLYWOOD is building something most companies talk about but few actually achieve: a data organization that doesn't just report on the business but shapes it. We're evolving from outdoor furniture to outdoor living, and the decisions that drive that shift need to be grounded in real consumer insight, commercial intelligence, and operational clarity.

This is the role that makes that happen.

The Role

The VP of Data & Analytics is POLYWOOD's senior data leader, responsible for the people, platforms, and practices that turn raw data into business advantage. You'll own the enterprise data platform, lead a team of data and analytics engineers, and manage embedded analysts across the organization who sit close to the business units they serve.

Critically, this role isn't just internal infrastructure. You'll be a key partner to Marketing, Advertising, and Commercial leadership, ensuring that data drives smarter decisions across the consumer journey, from acquisition to retention to repurchase.

You'll lead the organization through two direct reports:

  • Director of Data Engineering who builds and maintains the data platform and pipelines
  • Embedded Analysts across business units who translate data into action at the point of need
What You'll OwnData Strategy and Platform Leadership
  • Define and evolve POLYWOOD's enterprise data strategy, from ingestion to insight
  • Own the Databricks lakehouse environment and ensure it's structured, governed, and built for scale
  • Set the architectural standards, modeling conventions, and data quality frameworks that the whole organization relies on
  • Stay technically credible: you understand medallion architecture, transformation pipelines, and data modeling well enough to lead a Director of Data Engineering and make sound platform decisions
Analytics and Organizational Leadership
  • Lead and develop a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and embedded business analysts
  • Ensure embedded analysts are well-connected to both their business units and to the central data org, so insights are consistent, reliable, and actually used
  • Build a culture of curiosity, rigor, and practical impact across the team
  • Partner with HR and business unit leaders to grow the analyst function as the company scales
Commercial and Marketing Partnership
  • Serve as the primary data partner to Marketing, Advertising, and Commercial leadership
  • Ensure consumer and marketing data pipelines, including Shopify, GA4, Google Ads, and Meta, are structured to support attribution, performance measurement, and audience intelligence
  • Connect data to commercial decisions: pricing, assortment, promotions, and customer lifecycle
  • Help define the KPIs and measurement frameworks that align creative, media, and business teams around shared outcomes
Governance and Data Quality
  • Establish and enforce data governance standards, access controls, and metric definitions across the organization
  • Ensure finance and operations are working from the same numbers
  • Reduce reliance on manual reporting and ad hoc data pulls by building reliable, self-serve business-ready models
What We're Looking For
  • Technical Leader who is credible with engineers and can make sound architectural decisions, not just manage up
  • Organizational Builder who knows how to structure a data org, develop talent, and connect embedded analysts to a central platform
  • Commercial Partner who understands how data connects to marketing performance, consumer behavior, and business outcomes
  • Clear Communicator who can translate technical complexity into business decisions at the executive level
Qualifications
  • 12+ years in data engineering, analytics, or data leadership roles
  • Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary data organizations including engineers and analysts
  • Expert-level knowledge of Databricks and modern lakehouse architecture
  • Strong SQL and Python fluency; ability to review and guide technical work
  • Experience integrating D2C and marketing data sources (Shopify, GA4, paid media platforms)
  • Proven ability to connect data strategy to measurable business outcomes
  • Experience in consumer products, retail, or D2C environments preferred
Why POLYWOOD

You'll be building the data foundation for a category-defining brand at a moment of real strategic ambition. The platform is in place. The business appetite is there. This is a chance to build something that actually matters.

Requirements:What We're Looking For
  • Technical Leader who is credible with engineers and can make sound architectural decisions, not just manage up
  • Organizational Builder who knows how to structure a data org, develop talent, and connect embedded analysts to a central platform
  • Commercial Partner who understands how data connects to marketing performance, consumer behavior, and business outcomes
  • Clear Communicator who can translate technical complexity into business decisions at the executive level
Qualifications
  • 12+ years in data engineering, analytics, or data leadership roles
  • Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary data organizations including engineers and analysts
  • Expert-level knowledge of Databricks and modern lakehouse architecture
  • Strong SQL and Python fluency; ability to review and guide technical work
  • Experience integrating D2C and marketing data sources (Shopify, GA4, paid media platforms)
  • Proven ability to connect data strategy to measurable business outcomes
  • Experience in consumer products, retail, or D2C environments preferred

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