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Director, Analytics and Insights
VEVO
San Francisco, CA, United States
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WHO WE ARE
Vevo is the world’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform with over 18.7 billion monthly views globally. Vevo delivers a personalized and expertly curated experience for audiences to explore and discover music videos, exclusive original programming and live performances from the artists they love on mobile, web and connected TV.
Data has become the fabric for Vevo to make decisions around our products as well as various aspects of the business, including growth, research, advertisement, product marketing and content. Vevo is truly committed to our home-grown analytics systems, as well as delivering truly democratized data capabilities across the entire organization. To do this successfully, we not only need to continue to have a strong engineering focus towards our analytics platform, but also need to democratize advanced data science skills and capabilities to help the various Vevo organizations make sense of the data, and in some instances be able to make predictions for where things are going.
We’re looking for an accomplished, hands-on leader that can lead a team of data engineers, modelers, and data scientists that will continue to evolve the Vevo Analytics Platform, as well as a team of data scientists that will be embedded in various departments outside Product and Engineering. Individuals will be full-time embedded so that we can provide dedicated expertise and attention, with domain understanding that can help such organizations make big strides based on data-driven discoveries and insights. The ideal candidate must have experience with analytics systems, as well as applied Data Science. The ideal candidate must be able to manage a highly distributed team across various geographies including SF, NYC and Seattle.
The individual will report directly to the VP of Data and Analytics based in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
◦ Own and drive the Analytics Engineering roadmap to continue to evolve the internal Vevo Analytics platform at scale
◦ Work closely with all Vevo Analytics stakeholders to understand, synthesize requirements and turn them into a cohesive execution plan
◦ Establish KPIs that measure the success of the Vevo Analytics Platform
◦ Work with closely with the Data Platform Engineering team to drive cohesive and unified roadmaps
◦ Lead and mentor a team of more engineers, modelers and data scientists as we continue to evolve data pipelines, ETL processes at scale, warehouse data modeling and visualization/dashboard generation for broad consumption
◦ Lead the Insights team which will be highly distributed (across departments) team of data scientists
◦ Continue to grow both the Analytics and Insights teams
◦ Make sure that there is cross-pollination of knowledge and ideas across all sub-teams
◦ Own and evolve the Vevo Analytics event taxonomy
◦ Evangelize and educate non technical stakeholders in data driven decision making
Qualifications
◦ Masters or PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science or related quantitative degree is required
◦ Minimum of 10-12 years of industry experience
◦ Proven record of overseeing analytics and/or data science teams
◦ Proven experience in architecting and building analytics/data platforms at scale
◦ Excellent written and oral communicator
◦ Excellent project management skills
◦ High empathy with end users - successful products come from giving users what they want
Bonus Points
◦ Deep passion for music videos is a big plus
◦ Great sense of humor is a big plus
◦ Experience in building consulting practices is a plus
What we can do for you!
◦ We are a fun energetic tight knit team with a passion for music and technology
◦ In office/external happy hours
◦ Remain up to date with new technology including hosting/attending meetups
◦ Excellent benefits package
◦ Competitive compensation packages
◦ Premier access to music content and new releases of original media content
◦ Concert ticket giveaways
◦ 401k Match
◦ Upscale San Francisco office with stunning views of City Hall, Golden Gate Bridge, the Peninsula, and the Bay
◦ Fully stocked kitchen and bar with catered lunches everyday