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VTS

Head of Data & Analytics

New York, NY · On-site

Enable leadership to access and trust data without needing constant ad hoc support What you can expect as the Head of Data & Analytics: * Build the single source of truth: Audit, rationalize, and own ...

First Citizens Bank

Senior Data Steward

Phoenix, AZ · On-site +1

Provides consultation and collaborates with peer associates, business leaders, the Bank's Data Councils, and other stakeholders on strategies that achieve data governance goals. May provide ...

VTS

Head of Data & Analytics

New York, NY

This role is designed for a seasoned data leader who excels at building from scratch -- someone who can architect a data platform, establish governance standards, and be a genuine strategic partner ...

Peraton

Lead Data Architect - Aviation Analytics

Herndon, VA · On-site

$146K - $234K/yr

This role will serve as a senior data leader across FAA BNATCS and Peraton Labs data streams and will help ensure that the Digital Command Center (DCC) is built on a strong data foundation. The ideal ...

First Citizens Bank

Senior Data Steward

Phoenix, AZ · On-site +1

Provides consultation and collaborates with peer associates, business leaders, the Bank's Data Councils, and other stakeholders on strategies that achieve data governance goals. May provide ...

Red Clover HR

Lead Data Engineer

East Rutherford, NJ

You are a hands‑on, systems‑oriented data leader who enjoys working close to the business and taking ownership of complex, real‑world data challenges. You are comfortable operating at the ...

Lilly

Associate Director Data and Systems QA

Lebanon, IN · On-site

$123K - $180.40K/yr

We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the ... This person is also the Site Data Leader. The Associate Director is also responsible for managing ...

Sol de Janeiro

Director of Data

New York, NY · On-site +1

This is a leadership role responsible for establishing the foundational data infrastructure that will power analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organization. You will own ...

Kinsale Insurance

Senior Data Architect

Richmond, VA · On-site

$66.75 - $89.50/hr

Are you an experienced data leader ready to architect the future of enterprise-scale data platforms? Join Kinsale Insurance, a leading excess and surplus (E&S) lines carrier headquartered in Richmond ...

Ascot Group

Global Lead Data Steward

Iselin, NJ · On-site

You'll partner closely with leaders and analysts in underwriting, actuarial, finance, claims, exposure management, operations, and technology to align on what data means, how it's structured, and how ...

Eisai

Director, Commercial Data Management

Nutley, NJ · Hybrid

$197.10K - $258.70K/yr

This is a hands-on leadership role for a data leader with strong subject-matter expertise and deep domain/data knowledge who can translate business requirements into scalable solutions and measurable ...

Tranzact

Head of Data Science

Fort Lee, NJ · On-site

TRANZACT is a leading direct-to-consumer insurance services business, specializing in the ... As the Head of Data Science, you will oversee and support advanced analytics projects that impact ...

SoFi

Data Science Manager, Borrow

San Francisco, CA · On-site

You will serve as a data leader, balancing urgent requests and delivering high quality projects to key stakeholders, through a clear and repeatable data informed approach. You will create a culture ...

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As of May 31, 2026, the average yearly pay for data leader in the United States is $165,018.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $133,500.00 and $170,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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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.

How do Data Leaders typically balance strategic oversight with hands-on involvement in data projects?

Data Leaders often face the challenge of balancing high-level strategy with direct involvement in data initiatives. While their primary responsibility is to set the vision for data governance, analytics, and architecture, they also need to stay engaged with teams to ensure alignment and remove obstacles. This often means participating in key project meetings, reviewing major deliverables, and facilitating communication between technical and business stakeholders. Effective Data Leaders delegate operational tasks but remain accessible for critical decision-making and mentorship, fostering both team autonomy and strategic coherence.

What is a Data Leader?

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.

What is the difference between Data Leader vs Data Analyst?

AspectData Leader
ResponsibilitiesStrategic data management, setting data vision, leading data teams
Skills & CertificationsData strategy, leadership, advanced analytics, often with certifications like CDMP or DAMA
Work EnvironmentExecutive-level, cross-departmental collaboration, senior management
FocusHigh-level data governance, business impact, long-term data strategy

While a Data Leader focuses on strategic oversight, governance, and leading data initiatives at an organizational level, a Data Analyst primarily handles data analysis, reporting, and supporting decision-making through data insights. Both roles require strong analytical skills, but the Data Leader emphasizes leadership and strategy, whereas the Data Analyst concentrates on technical analysis and data interpretation.

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Head of Data & Analytics

Head of Data & Analytics

VTS

New York, NY • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 2 days ago

Job description

** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. **
The Head of Data & Analytics is a high-visibility, foundational role responsible for establishing the company's single source of truth for data across all functions. Acting as the analytical backbone of the business, you will ensure every critical metric is defined, governed, and reportable from one place - giving leadership the data clarity they need to make fast, confident decisions. You will translate raw data across a modern SaaS stack into a trustworthy, scalable intelligence layer that the entire organization can rely on.
This role is designed for a seasoned data leader who excels at building from scratch - someone who can architect a data platform, establish governance standards, and be a genuine strategic partner to senior leaders - not just delivering data, but shaping decisions. You will connect data to business context, identify what matters, and provide clear, prescriptive recommendations. Reporting directly to the SVP of Business Operations, you will own the data infrastructure that underpins our next phase of growth.
This role is intentionally hands-on to start. You will personally build and shape the foundation of our data platform while partnering closely with leaders across the business. As we scale, you will have the opportunity to evolve into a player-coach, building and leading a small but high-impact data team.
In the first 6-12 months, you will:
  • Establish a clear, trusted definition of core company metrics across GTM, Product, Finance, and Customer Success
  • Reduce reliance on manual reporting by automating high-impact workflows
  • Build a scalable data model that connects our core systems into a coherent source of truth
  • Enable leadership to access and trust data without needing constant ad hoc support

What you can expect as the Head of Data & Analytics:
  • Build the single source of truth: Audit, rationalize, and own the company's data model end to end - from raw sources through transformation to consumption. Every key metric will have one definition, one owner, and one place to find it.
  • Identify the highest-impact manual reporting workflows across functions and automate them: Today, much of our reporting lives across spreadsheets and manual workflows, with no single owner of data. One of your first priorities will be to bring structure, consistency, and trust to this environment, and build a self-serve analytics layer that increases data trust and reduces ad hoc requests across the company.
  • Own executive and board-level reporting:Build and maintain the metrics layer that leadership, the board, and ultimately investors rely on - each defined, documented, and reportable from a single governed layer.
  • Mature the dbt layer: Partner with engineering team to audit existing dbt models, close gaps, and establish transformation standards that will scale the platform. You won't be coding alone, but you need to be fluent enough to review, direct, and govern the work.
  • Establish metric governance: Define the operating model for how metrics are created, changed, and communicated - including a cross-functional process for resolving metric disputes and maintaining a company-wide data dictionary that becomes the authoritative reference.
  • Build a scalable, auditable data foundation: Ensure our data is structured, documented, and fully traceable from source systems to reported metrics. Establish clear data lineage, metric definitions, and governance so leadership can rely on data with confidence as reporting needs become more complex.
  • Act as a strategic partner to senior leadership: Show up to QBRs, pipeline reviews, and planning cycles with a clear point of view on what the data means and what the business should do next. Be the person who changes decisions - not by reporting the data, but by interpreting it and making actionable recommendations.
  • Cross-functional data leadership: Partner with all functions to ensure their data needs are captured, while also challenging assumptions, refining questions, and guiding teams toward the metrics and analyses that drive better decisions.
  • Drive insight and action, not just visibility: Go beyond building dashboards to proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the business. Translate data into clear recommendations and influence leaders on what actions to take - even when it challenges existing assumptions or priorities.

To thrive in this role you have:
  • 7-10+ years in analytics, analytics engineering, or a senior BI role with hands-on data modeling experience, including experience owning or significantly shaping a company's data model or analytics infrastructure
  • Experience building and governing a BI layer (e.g., Looker, Tableau): you know what good looks like, what breaks at scale, and how to make a BI tool something people actually use.
  • Experience working with modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift): Warehouse management, schema design, cost monitoring - you understand the platform and can make architectural decisions on it.
  • dbt fluency:You can read, write, review, and govern dbt models. You understand staging, intermediate, and mart layer design, and you have strong opinions about what belongs where and why.
  • Strong SQL:Window functions, CTEs, and performance optimization are comfortable ground. You write modeling SQL, not just analytical SQL.
  • Broad business fluency and SaaS literacy: You understand the operational levers of a SaaS P&L - ARR, NRR, churn, CAC, LTV, product velocity, product adoption, as well as financial levers, such as unit economics, financial performance ratios, financial analysis.
  • Track record of strategic partnership:You have been in rooms with senior leaders and said things that changed decisions - not because you were asked, but because the data told you something important. You elevate data from reporting to a strategic asset that shapes how the company operates and makes decisions.
  • Comfort operating without formal authority:You can direct an analytics engineer you don't manage, get a VP to prioritize data quality, and get Finance to adopt a metric definition they initially resisted.
  • Strong prioritization instincts: You focus on the highest-impact problems and avoid over-engineering, balancing speed with long-term scalability.

Strongly preferred if you have:
  • Experience building from scratch: You have built a data function, a data layer, or a centralized reporting infrastructure at a company that previously had none. You know how to sequence the work and how to manage stakeholder expectations during the build phase.
  • Salesforce data model familiarity: You understand how CRM objects map to business concepts and how to extract Salesforce data reliably into a warehouse environment.
  • Product analytics experience: You have worked with Mixpanel or a comparable tool and know how to join event-level product data with CRM and financial data to create a complete picture of customer behavior.
  • C-suite and investor exposure: You know what executives and investors ask for and what breaks under that scrutiny.
  • CS analytics background: Experience with customer health scoring, adoption reporting, proactive value engineering, or churn prediction data models, is a meaningful plus.
  • Background in FP&A, investment banking, or management consulting before moving into data - brings structured analytical thinking and executive communication skills.

What VTS Values & How We Show It
  • Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
  • Be Customer Obsessed - We're employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - quarterly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
  • Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!
  • Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
  • Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you're building with our equity packages.
  • Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!

ABOUT VTS
VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $190,000 and $250,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.
EEO Guidelines
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. For more information about what we collect and how we use it, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Statement.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at ta@vts.com
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