Director, Data Strategy

Bounteous; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous is seeking an experienced Director of Data Strategy to lead data-driven marketing initiatives within the Modern Business Platforms practice. The role partners with clients to design, implement, and scale data ecosystems that enable measurement, modeling, and activation across martech and adtech.

The candidate will develop practice-wide data perspectives, build the Data Strategy team, and engage in pitches, estimates, and SOWs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in digital, consulting, or analytics.
• Functional expertise with digital analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).
• Knowledge of BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar; SQL is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional engagements and cohesive delivery across competencies.
• Uncovers use cases and data initiatives aligned with marketing objectives.
• Conducts data strategy programming, KPI setting, readiness assessments, and roadmapping.
• Assesses client data maturity, prioritizes, and coordinates a strategic data and agile roadmap.
• Provides perspectives on data advancement including warehousing, modeling, and engineering.
• Oversees Data Strategy team members on complex accounts.

Skills

Experience 10+ yrs

Adobe Analytics

Google Analytics

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Director, Data StrategyBounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building.

Bounteous is looking for an experienced Director to join the Modern Business Platforms (MBP) practice. This role acts as a trusted client partner and leads teams to drive results for clients through effective use of data to activate marketing use cases. This role involves embracing and evangelizing new marketing, data, and analytics technologies in addition to leading initiatives to improve the competency of the Martech platforms practice, generating ideas and processes to deliver successful project solutions, maintaining a focus on learning and professional growth, leading strategic cross-competency accounts, and providing partnership to client service and business development teams to expand account opportunities.

The Director of Data Strategy will be responsible for the strategic development of digital marketing data ecosystems, accomplishing data-driven analysis and activation through solution architectures integrating measurement, modeling, and martech / adtech to meet client business objectives. Within client programs, this role will create and oversee comprehensive data programs to enable complex digital strategies. This role will be highly cross-functional and interface with Data & Analytics, Marketing, Experience Design, and Technology teams.

This role will develop practice-wide data perspectives, help build the Data Strategy team, and advance the capacity of consultants across the MBP practice in project execution. As a leader in digital data and analytics, this role will also be involved in pitches, estimates, and SOWs for related projects when needed.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Role and Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional engagements, and ensures cohesive delivery across competencies.
• Uncovers use cases and data initiatives in alignment with marketing business objectives.
• Conducts data strategy programming, including assessing data signals, KPI setting, ecosystem and readiness assessments, co-innovation studio sessions, roadmapping deliverables, and value creation cycles.
• Assesses client data maturity, understands stakeholder needs, facilitates prioritization, and coordinates a strategic data and agile roadmap of program activities.
• Provides perspectives on necessary data advancement recommendations, including data warehousing, modeling, engineering, business intelligence, or other data activities to support business outcomes.
• Works with delivery pods (channel owners, competencies, functional teams) to harmonize activities and deliverables across the co-innovation program, translating business objectives into activities & marketing objectives, ideating on innovation and outlining the tactics necessary to achieve results.
• Provides oversight to Data Strategy team members on complex accounts.
• Uses the results of analysis to communicate program success and persuade account and client stakeholders for expansion and investment, including opportunities for accelerator engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in digital, consulting, or analytics.
• Functional expertise with digital analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).
• Knowledge and familiarity with BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar and SQL is a plus.
• Familiarity in cloud technologies (Snowflake, AWS, Azure) and their capabilities as they relate to customer, digital, and operational data and digital analytics.
• Familiarity with a variety of marketing technology platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, etc).
• Industry knowledge of the advanced analytics landscape.
• Understanding of data governance, compliance, and privacy issues.

Expectations

• Build the capability and be a trusted advisor to help clients see a clear path to overcome their challenges
• Maintain subject matter expertise as platforms evolve, including leading development of playbooks and documentation for scaling solutions
• Collaborate with internal marketing team on strategic collateral, collaborative case studies, or other marketing materials
• Work with CSEs and BD to support pitches for new business or additional follow-on work for clients, especially relating to activation; participate in QBRs as needed
• Maintain billable utilization while uncovering additional project opportunities

Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.

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Bounteous is looking for an experienced Director to join the Modern Business Platforms (MBP) practice. This role acts as a trusted client partner and leads teams to drive results for clients through effective use of data to activate marketing use cases. This role involves embracing and evangelizing new marketing, data, and analytics technologies in addition to leading initiatives to improve the competency of the Martech platforms practice, generating ideas and processes to deliver successful project solutions, maintaining a focus on learning and professional growth, leading strategic cross-competency accounts, and providing partnership to client service and business development teams to expand account opportunities.

The Director of Data Strategy will be responsible for the strategic development of digital marketing data ecosystems, accomplishing data-driven analysis and activation through solution architectures integrating measurement, modeling, and martech / adtech to meet client business objectives. Within client programs, this role will create and oversee comprehensive data programs to enable complex digital strategies. This role will be highly cross-functional and interface with Data & Analytics, Marketing, Experience Design, and Technology teams.

This role will develop practice-wide data perspectives, help build the Data Strategy team, and advance the capacity of consultants across the MBP practice in project execution. As a leader in digital data and analytics, this role will also be involved in pitches, estimates, and SOWs for related projects when needed.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Role and Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional engagements, and ensures cohesive delivery across competencies.
• Uncovers use cases and data initiatives in alignment with marketing business objectives.
• Conducts data strategy programming, including assessing data signals, KPI setting, ecosystem and readiness assessments, co-innovation studio sessions, roadmapping deliverables, and value creation cycles.
• Assesses client data maturity, understands stakeholder needs, facilitates prioritization, and coordinates a strategic data and agile roadmap of program activities.
• Provides perspectives on necessary data advancement recommendations, including data warehousing, modeling, engineering, business intelligence, or other data activities to support business outcomes.
• Works with delivery pods (channel owners, competencies, functional teams) to harmonize activities and deliverables across the co-innovation program, translating business objectives into activities & marketing objectives, ideating on innovation and outlining the tactics necessary to achieve results.
• Provides oversight to Data Strategy team members on complex accounts.
• Uses the results of analysis to communicate program success and persuade account and client stakeholders for expansion and investment, including opportunities for accelerator engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in digital, consulting, or analytics.
• Functional expertise with digital analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).
• Knowledge and familiarity with BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar and SQL is a plus.
• Familiarity in cloud technologies (Snowflake, AWS, Azure) and their capabilities as they relate to customer, digital, and operational data and digital analytics.
• Familiarity with a variety of marketing technology platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, etc).
• Industry knowledge of the advanced analytics landscape.
• Understanding of data governance, compliance, and privacy issues.

Expectations

• Build the capability and be a trusted advisor to help clients see a clear path to overcome their challenges
• Maintain subject matter expertise as platforms evolve, including leading development of playbooks and documentation for scaling solutions
• Collaborate with internal marketing team on strategic collateral, collaborative case studies, or other marketing materials
• Work with CSEs and BD to support pitches for new business or additional follow-on work for clients, especially relating to activation; participate in QBRs as needed
• Maintain billable utilization while uncovering additional project opportunities

Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.

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