Director, BI Analytics Engineering & Data Governance at Smartsheet

The Business Intelligence (BI) team exists to unlock the power of data within Smartsheet by providing data access and insights to empower company effectiveness. Smartsheet is looking for an experienced leader to manage large programs driving data democratization and self-serve across the Smartsheet workforce. 

The ideal candidate will have experience managing large, cross-functional projects, data analytics, data ingestion and cleansing, productizing data, people leadership, and working with stakeholders across a company. This role will work closely as a member of the management team and partner with stakeholders across the organization to ensure we are enabling data democratization utilizing data to drive decision making.

You will report to our VP of Data Science and Business Intelligence located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.

You Will:

• Lead an analytics engineering team with vision and execution to productize data and ensure data accessibility for the BI Team, company leadership, and stakeholders across the organization
• Work together with BI Analysts and Data Scientists, both within the BI team and across teams, to create a framework for organizing the combination of products, reports, and research in an accessible and consumable format for stakeholders across the company
• Drive strategy and evangelism for enabling data self-serve and data democratization across the company leveraging tools such as dbt, Snowflake, Thoughtspot and Tableau
• Own data governance and data quality in our Snowflake source of truth database
• Enable data discoverability and data literacy for all teams across Smartsheet through making data findable and documented across internal tools
• Build, manage, and lead a team to meet department objectives ensuring employee performance and ongoing development
• Systematically clean and transform data to enhance our data source of truth usability for stakeholders across the business
• Understand Smartsheet's business model and functional objectives in order to guide data productization efforts to empower execution and data-driven decisions
• Develop cross-team relationships across functional leadership and our team of BI Partners to ensure we are meeting existing analytics needs and prepared to meet the needs of the future
• Support other duties as needed

You Have:

• 10-12 years of prior technical program management experience
• 5-7  years of prior experience in Analytics Engineering and/or Data Science
• 5-7 years of people management/team leadership experience or similar relevant industry experience
• Deep understanding of Data modeling techniques like Dimensional and Data Vault
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to distill information for audiences at all levels
• Project and program management experience
• Systems mindset with experience in data automation and productization
• Critical thinker with analytical and financial skills; strong sense for business success
• Excellent problem structuring, identification and resolution
• Hands-on experience with SQL, dbt and Snowflake