Head of Data, AI & Innovation Strategy | Remote

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Retirement Plan w/ 6% match

3 Weeks PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Bonus Potential

Job summary

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC seeks a Senior Manager of Data Analytics, AI & Innovation to lead enterprise-wide data, analytics, and AI initiatives. You will partner with Finance, Operations, Sales, HR and others to identify opportunities where data and automation improve outcomes.

You will build a roadmap, establish governance, and scale a growing data function, while communicating business value to leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data analytics, AI strategy, business intelligence.
• Ability to build executive-level business cases and roadmaps.
• Strong data modeling, governance, and analytics fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the organization’s innovation, data, analytics, and AI strategy, aligning technology investments with business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify challenges, improvement opportunities, and areas where data-driven solutions can create value.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized roadmap for innovation, business intelligence, analytics, and AI initiatives.
• Establish and lead enterprise data governance practices, including data ownership, stewardship, quality standards, security, privacy, and retention policies.
• Own the enterprise data platform and data warehouse strategy, including data pipelines, integrations, and architecture that support trusted reporting and analytics.
• Drive the analytics and business intelligence strategy, helping transition reporting environments toward reliable, self-service insights and a single source of truth.
• Define and guide the organization’s AI strategy, including use case evaluation, governance, responsible implementation, and adoption.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, automation platforms, and innovation opportunities, determining where they can provide meaningful business value.
• Build and lead a small team focused on innovation and data initiatives while partnering with internal stakeholders and external vendors.

Skills

Data analytics

AI strategy

Business intelligence

Data governance

Tools

Data warehouse

ETL pipelines

Analytics platforms

Job description

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC seeks a Senior Manager of Data Analytics, AI & Innovation to lead enterprise-wide data, analytics, and AI initiatives. You will partner with Finance, Operations, Sales, HR and others to identify opportunities where data and automation improve outcomes.

You will build a roadmap, establish governance, and scale a growing data function, while communicating business value to leadership.