Director, Data Intelligence

Build the platform that powers global trade

The opportunity

The Director, Data Intelligence is responsible for building and leading a team of business intelligence and data engineers, data scientists and business analysts responsible for enabling the SMB and OCS organizations to leverage data to understand the performance and challenge of their businesses. The team is responsible for converting data into actionable business insights as well as setting up the data infrastructure to build and power optimization models to achieve the organization's goals. They are analysis experts who leverage a variety of data platforms and analytical tools to provide timely, meaningful, and consumable information. They build deep contextual and domain knowledge. They ensure data quality and build scalable tools. They communicate findings with the most effective and influential methods.

You will:

• Build and lead the team on the design, implementation, and delivery of data solutions in a highly ambiguous and significantly complex problem space that have a long-term impact on a business, organization, or technology. Your efforts may produce new solutions or refactor, or even deprecate, existing solutions. 
• You heavily influence the design and deliver a significant portion of critical-path code and/or analysis. You make the right trade-offs. 
• Your solutions are as simple as possible. You only advocate for new data solutions when it is necessary. 
• Identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems. (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous, undefined, with less existing structure, or having significant business risk or potential for significant impact).
• Be a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests. You will be flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of the team, the customers, and the project or product.
• Lead and actively participate in design reviews, aligning teams across your organization towards coherent analytics strategies. You bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding.
• Participate in the hiring/interview process and may actively recruit for Flexport.
• Play a significant role in the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger data community on trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Keep abreast of industry trends. You effectively research and benchmark our solutions against other analytics platforms in the industry.

You should have:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in managing successful teams
• 12+ years industry experience building successful production science systems
• Experience with machine learning technologies, information retrieval or related applications
• Experience communicating with executives and non-technical leaders
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and statistics

About Flexport:

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make it easy and accessible for everyone. We’re shaping the future of a $8.6T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. 

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. At a valuation of $8B, we’re experiencing record growth and are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

Worried about not having any logistics experience?

Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.

We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success. 

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authe