Senior Director, Data Strategy and Insights

About SecurityScorecard:

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. 

Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace,” by Crain’s NY as a "Best Places to Work in NYC," and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing “forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement.”  SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital.

About The Role

SecurityScorecard is looking to hire a Senior Director, Data Strategy and Insights to lead our Business Intelligence (BI) team. As a key business partner to the company’s leadership team, the Sr. Director of Business Data Strategy and Insights is responsible for the strategy and team’s execution of all data management and insight initiatives. This role is responsible for designing the architecture and processes that provide actionable insights and create greater business value. 

The Senior Director, Data Strategy is a trusted advisor to SSC’s senior leadership team and is accountable for managing the company’s data information as a corporate asset. The role will deliver business insights that improve decision making, drive results across the company, and generate incremental business value and new opportunities through digital innovation.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build and drive overall strategy, methodology, and roadmap for the processes, systems, tools, and technologies required to harvest, produce, synthesize and maintain our core data assets.
• Set a long term vision for the data function and develop and execute successful data roadmaps alongside functional roadmaps in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Build insights at scale - elevating our foundational data systems and analytics to allow for faster, better, and more systematic insights moving away from adhoc questions and insight (tracking and reporting) to change how we operate as a high growth company.  
• Drive towards action to create an outcomes oriented culture. Fewer order takers and more leadership insights provided. 
• Lead, support, and develop a team of business insight analysts and data scientists. The team is responsible for: leading, designing, and refining SecurityScorecard’s data management and insight, and infrastructure capabilities. 
• Manage and prioritize inbound requests and turn them into clearly defined projects for the team, with well-defined parameters and deliverables to ensure the team’s efforts are spent in the most value-added areas. 
• Develop relationships and collaborate with various internal customers to develop analyses that lead to actionable insights, lead discussions, and advance our understanding, focus and speed.
• Identify opportunities to monetize/commercialize data (analytics-as-a-service) by leveraging existing enterprise data and information in the company’s products and services. 
• Generate and monitor strategic measures of success and ensure the consistent reporting of key performance indicators to internal and external stakeholders;  

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading data-teams in fast paced, high growth SaaS companies 
• 5+ years experience as a technical expert in engineering, data science, data analytics, business analysis, or business intelligence  
• Proven expertise in building high impact data functions that operate with streamlined processes at scale and build strong cross-functional partnerships.
• Strong business acumen and proven ability to analyze and develop insights that drive change and specific outcomes
• Experience designing dashboards and reports in data visualization platforms (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Sisense). Tableau experience is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of advanced statistical techniques that could be used to create and refine emerging data tools; as well as advanced data techniques to