Chief Data & Analytics Officer — AI-Driven Data Strategy

AvePoint; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career progression

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

AvePoint, the Microsoft Cloud expert, seeks a Chief Data and Analytics Officer to define and execute enterprise data strategy, modernize architecture, and establish governance. This leader will build an AI-ready data foundation and enable self-service analytics across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and IT.

The CDO will own data products, telemetry standards, data quality, and privacy, partnering with executives to drive product-led growth, customer insights, and strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership in data, analytics, engineering, or information management.
• 7+ years leading enterprise data organizations.
• Proven experience modernizing enterprise data architecture.
• Experience implementing cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute AvePoint's enterprise data strategy, aligning data investments with business growth, product-led growth, AI, and customer-centric decision-making.
• Define and lead AvePoint's enterprise data operating model, establishing clear accountability across centralized data capabilities, embedded domain analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, data owners, data stewards, and executive governance forums.
• Lead the modernization of AvePoint's data architecture, platforms, and ecosystem to create a scalable, reliable, governed, and accessible enterprise data foundation.
• Establish enterprise data product management practices, including domain data products, certified semantic models, reusable metrics, documented lineage, business glossaries, data catalogs, quality standards, and lifecycle ownership.
• Build and operationalize the data capabilities required to measure product adoption, customer health, retention, expansion, monetization, and overall customer value.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define product telemetry standards, event schemas, taxonomy, experimentation datasets, usage metrics, and product-commercial data contracts that connect adoption, retention, expansion, customer value, and product roadmap decisions.
• Partner with ELT to establish enterprise-wide data priorities, governance, quality, privacy, security, stewardship, and KPI standards that enable trusted and consistent business decision-making.
• Deliver trusted self-service analytics, executive reporting, business intelligence, and data product capabilities that improve data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Lead the data foundation for AI, advanced analytics, automation, copilots, and agentic experiences by ensuring governed, traceable, secure, high-quality, and context-rich data is available across the enterprise.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team while fostering strong cross-functional partnerships across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, People, Security, Compliance, and IT.
• Serve as the executive sponsor for enterprise data initiatives, managing strategic investments, vendor relationships, and communication with executive leadership and the Board.

Skills

Data strategy

Enterprise data leadership

Governance programs

Product analytics

Executive stakeholder management

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Azure

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

AvePoint, the Microsoft Cloud expert, seeks a Chief Data and Analytics Officer to define and execute enterprise data strategy, modernize architecture, and establish governance. This leader will build an AI-ready data foundation and enable self-service analytics across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and IT.

The CDO will own data products, telemetry standards, data quality, and privacy, partnering with executives to drive product-led growth, customer insights, and strategic decisions.