Director of Data and Analytics

Kiteworks; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

HSA contribution

Vision & dental

401k match

Life & disability insurance

Fertility benefit

One Medical

Unlimited PTO

Work-from-anywhere days

Catered lunches

Job summary

Kiteworks is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to scale our data platform, from raw telemetry to executive dashboards. You will lead data engineers and analysts, shape technical direction, and unblock the team while shipping high-impact solutions.

This builder role balances day-to-day delivery with turning data into a trusted, governed asset for the whole organization. You’ll partner across product, finance, sales, and operations.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years in data engineering, analytics, or BI, including 2+ years leading a team.
• Proven experience designing data pipelines and telemetry ingestion in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
• Hands-on with modern data stack tooling incl. SQL, cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools.
• Experience with BI tools and CRM platforms (Salesforce required) and governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers and data analysts.
• Design, operate and scale ingestion/ transformation pipelines.
• Own architecture, modeling, and cost/performance of the data warehouse.
• Evolve telemetry ingestion and event pipelines for analytics.

Skills

Team leadership

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Data warehouse

BI tools

Salesforce

Python

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

Job description

Director of Data and Analytics

We are looking for a Director of Data & Analytics to lead the design and scaling of our core data infrastructure — from raw product telemetry to the executive dashboards that run the business. You'll lead a team of data engineers and data analysts, set the technical direction for our data platform, and stay close enough to the work to unblock your team, review architecture, and ship alongside them when it counts.

This is a builder's leadership role. You'll balance day-to-day delivery with the longer-term job of turning our data into a trusted, well-governed asset the whole organization can rely on.

What you'll do

• Team leadership - Manage, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and data analysts. Set priorities, run hiring, and coach for both technical depth and business impact.
• Data pipelines - Own the design, reliability, and performance of our ingestion and transformation pipelines. Ensure data lands accurately, on time, and at the quality the business needs.
• Data warehouse - Own the architecture, modeling, and cost/performance of the data warehouse as the single source of truth.
• Analytics tech stack - Evaluate and evolve the data lake/warehouse, BI tools, and CRM integrations to optimize cost, performance, and scalability.
• Telemetry - Lead product and system telemetry from the data side — instrumentation standards, event pipelines, and making usage and behavioral data usable for analytics.
• BI & reporting - Own the BI layer and reporting: dashboards, self-serve analytics, metric definitions, and the trust that comes from consistent, well-defined numbers across teams.
• Data governance & quality - Establish standards for data quality, documentation, access, lineage, and security in partnership with security and compliance.
• Stakeholder partnership - Work with leaders across product, finance, sales, and operations to translate business questions into data models, metrics, and insights.

What you'll bring

• 6–10+ years in data engineering, analytics, or BI, including 2+ years leading and managing a team.
• Proven experience designing and building data pipelines and telemetry ingestion systems from the ground up in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment
• Hands‑on expertise with modern data stack tooling — SQL, a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift), and pipeline/orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Fivetran).
• Hands‑on expertise with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI) and CRM platforms (Salesforce required) and a point of view on how to run BI well at an organization.
• Familiarity with AI‑driven analytics tools, agentic workflows, or ML‑based anomaly detection on pipelines
• Experience defining metrics and building trusted reporting that leaders actually use to make decisions.
• Proficiency in Python or a similar language for data work.
• Clear communicator who can move between a technical team and non‑technical stakeholders.

About Kiteworks

The Kiteworks single‑tenant‑by‑design virtual appliance delivers full data sovereignty, governing employees’ and AI agents’ access to, use, and sharing of sensitive data under the same identity, policy, encryption, and audit controls. Compliance is built in, not bolted on.

The values that define us

• Execution – We deliver results with focus, ownership, and consistency. Our teams take initiative, solve challenges proactively, and continuously optimize how we work to create meaningful impact for our customers.
• Transparency – We communicate openly and clearly, ensuring stakeholders have the information they need to make informed decisions. We foster a culture of trust, welcome feedback, and embrace accountability in everything we do.
• Integrity – We uphold the highest standards of honesty and responsibility. Our teams act ethically, consistently honor commitments, and build trust through principled, reliable actions.

Compensation range

• Salary Range of $220,000 – $280,000
• Base pay depends on many factors, such as location, education, experience, and skills. Base pay is only one part of Kiteworks competitive Total Rewards package that can include benefits, perks, equity, and bonuses. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Benefits & perks

Equity - stock options to share in company success

Healthcare

• 3 Cigna plans (PPO, EPO, HDHP)
• 90% covered (PPO/EPO) + $0 premium HDHP
• $1,200–$2,400 HSA contribution
• Competitive vision and dental coverage

Savings & retirement

• FSA + Dependent Care FSA
• 401(k) with 100% match (up to $5K), immediate vesting

Coverage - Fully paid life & disability insurance

Family benefits

• 16 weeks (birthing) / 8 weeks (non-birthing)
• $10K lifetime reimbursement fertility benefit

Care & support - One Medical membership + EAP counseling

Time off & flexibility

• Unlimited PTO + 10 holidays
• 10 work-from-anywhere days

Perks - Catered lunches + in-office massage days

Commitment to equal opportunity & inclusion

Kiteworks is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

Other requirements

Ability to meet Kiteworks, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings.

Kiteworks Background Check

This position requires passing the Kiteworks background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Please note that this role is open to individuals who already have U.S. work authorization. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.