Head of Data & Analytics - Platforms & Insights

Kiteworks; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stock options

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with match

Unlimited PTO

HSA contributions

Job summary

Kiteworks is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to design and scale our core data infrastructure, from telemetry to executive dashboards. You will lead data engineers and analysts, set the platform strategy, and stay hands-on to unblock the team and ship when needed.

This builder role balances day-to-day delivery with turning data into a trusted, governed asset used across the organization. Strong leadership and technical depth are essential.

Qualifications

• 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 (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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Data pipelines

Data warehouse

BI tools

CRM integration

Python

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Telemetry

Cloud data stack

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

Salesforce

Job description

Kiteworks is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to design and scale our core data infrastructure, from telemetry to executive dashboards. You will lead data engineers and analysts, set the platform strategy, and stay hands-on to unblock the team and ship when needed.

This builder role balances day-to-day delivery with turning data into a trusted, governed asset used across the organization. Strong leadership and technical depth are essential.