Director, Business Intelligence & AI

LCS (Life Care Services); Des Moines (IA); Vor Ort; USD 133.000 - 166.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive pay

Excellent benefits

Zusammenfassung

LCS (Life Care Services) seeks a Director of Business Intelligence & AI to lead strategy, governance, and delivery of Insight Advantage and enterprise BI capabilities. You will own the BI roadmap, drive adoption, and partner with Data Engineering, Governance, Data Science, AI Solutions, and IT to deliver scalable, secure analytics across communities.

Reporting to the VP, Data & AI, you will mentor the BI team, balance business value with platform sustainability, and guide priority initiatives

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in BI/analytics or related field.
• Experience leading BI products/platforms used by multiple functions.
• Strong Power BI expertise including semantic modeling and security.

Aufgaben

• Lead strategy, roadmap, and evolution of BI capabilities across the enterprise.
• Own BI product experience with trusted metrics and self-service capabilities.
• Define and steward reusable semantic models, measures, and reporting standards.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Governance, IT and AI teams on architecture and performance.
• Guide AI-assisted analytics experiences and proactive narratives.

Kenntnisse

Power BI

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Data governance

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Snowflake

Jobbeschreibung

The Director, Business Intelligence & AI leads the strategy, evolution, and delivery of Insight Advantage and LCS’s enterprise business intelligence capabilities. This working leader is accountable for creating a trusted, consistent, and increasingly personalized experience that helps leaders and teams make stronger decisions that improve occupancy, operating performance, workforce effectiveness, and resident experience.

The role leads the BI team, owns the BI product roadmap and delivery standards, and partners closely with business leaders, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Science, AI Solutions, and IT. The Director ensures that reporting and semantic models are scalable, governed, understandable, and reusable across dashboards, self-service analytics, and emerging AI-enabled experiences.

This position reports to theVP, Data & AI. The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst reports to this position.

Experience is Everything.

At LCS, experience is everything. We provide you the opportunity to use your talents in a progressive, growing organization that makes a positive difference in the lives of the seniors we serve. If you are seeking an organization that gives back, you’ll love working here. Our principles and hospitality promises define our company culture. LCS employees can be found participating in volunteer activities, getting involved in our committees or collaborating with team members in our innovative workspace. You’ll find several opportunities to grow as a professional, serve the community, and enhance the lives of seniors.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of Insight Advantage and LCS’s enterprise BI capabilities, balancing platform sustainability, user needs, and measurable business value.
• Own the BI product experience across enterprise and community audiences, including consistent navigation, trusted metrics, role-based access, self-service capabilities, and effective release and adoption practices.
• Lead the design and stewardship of reusable BI semantic models, measures, calculations, and reporting standards in partnership with Data Engineering and Data Governance.
• Partner with Data Engineering and IT on architecture, performance, security, integrations, and the appropriate placement of data transformation and business logic across Snowflake, Power BI, and related platforms.
• Partner with AI Solutions and Data Science to enable governed, AI-assisted analytics experiences such as proactive narratives, natural-language questions, personalized insights, and decision support.
• Own BI demand management and prioritization within the shared Data & AI intake and portfolioprocess, translating business problems into clear product requirements, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with leaders and users across communities and corporate functions to understand decisions, workflows, and information needs and incorporate feedback into the BI roadmap.
• Establish and monitor measures for BI adoption, reliability, user experience, delivery performance, and business value; use those measures to improve or retire products over time.
• Lead, coach, and develop the BI team and broader analytics community while establishing practical standards and support models for federated BI contributors.
• Remain sufficiently hands‑on to guide solution design, review technical work, troubleshoot complex issues, and contribute directly to priority initiatives when needed.
• Responsible for the effective management and leadership of a team. This includes, but is not limited to: hiring, training, coaching, evaluating and managing performance, allocating compensation, effectively handling employee relations issues, managing terminations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For:

• Required qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in business intelligence, analytics, or a related discipline.
  • Experience leading BI products or platforms used by multiple business functions.
  • Strong experience with Power BI or a comparable enterprise BI platform, including semantic modeling, measures, visualization, performance, and security concepts.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business decisions and user needs into scalable BI products and roadmaps.
  • Experience leading, coaching, or directing technical professionals and cross‑functional delivery teams.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder partnership, prioritization, and change‑leadership skills.
  • Ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to guide design and delivery.
• Preferred qualifications
  • Experience with Power BI and Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience establishing governed semantic models, metric definitions, lineage, or data‑product standards.
  • Experience introducing self‑service analytics, proactive insights, natural‑language analytics, or other AI‑assisted BI capabilities.
  • Experience working in a federated analytics environment with both central and business‑led developers.
  • Experience measuring product adoption, user experience, and realized business value.
  • Senior living, healthcare, hospitality, real estate, or other distributed operating‑model experience.

Why Join Us?

• Industry Leader.
• Inclusive & collaborative culture.
• Top Workplace USA.
• Top Workplace Iowa.
• Charity and community involvement.
• Outstanding advancement opportunities.
• Ongoing career development.

Benefits

Competitive pay, great benefits and vacation time. We are an equal opportunity employer with benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, disability, 401(K) with company match and paid parental leave.

Our Commitment

LCS creates living experiences that enhance the lives of seniors. You’ll see this commitment in our people. They’re talented, dedicated professionals who truly care about residents, with each conducting his or her work with integrity, honesty and transparency according to the principles of LCS. We strive to help every community succeed—strengthening available resources, establishing proven practices that lead to long‑term growth and value for those living in, working for and affiliated with the community. Check us out on our website: https://www.lcsliving.com

Additional Information

Travel frequency: 0-10%

Estimated Salary: $133,000 - $166,000

The actual title & salary will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors.

A POST-OFFER BACKGROUND CHECK, INCLUDING REFERENCES IS REQUIRED.

LCS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.