Senior Director, Data Science

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

The Data Team strives to build out the internal central nervous system for Confluent in order to drive better and faster decisions via data. Our charter includes Data Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics & Insights. It is our responsibility to build world class data infrastructure, tooling, governance, dashboards, and ML models to enable company-wide analytics, create insights & models and data products to drive business growth at scale, and to be a model user of Confluent Cloud.

What You Will Do:

• Own and drive the vision, strategy and roadmap for Data Science and lead the team to execute. Specifically, mature our approach to analytics, moving away from descriptive analytics towards more predictive & prescriptive
• Implement an approach for holistic prioritization to ensure resources are aligned to the highest impact and highest value initiatives
• Build and scale a world class, multi-geo team of professionals & leaders
• Engage with Product & Engineering teams to deliver analytics and Data Science solutions to improve Confluent’s products, adoption, and customer consumption
• Partner with GTM to evolve our approach to Customer 360, including building additional predictive models
• Engineering, Business Systems, and functional operation teams, to align on Data teams’ dependencies, roadmap, priorities, engagement model, and key processes
• Be a thought leader, identify high impact project opportunities and process changes, and improve productivity of the overall Data Team 

What You Will Bring:

• 15+ years of experience within complex Data Science orgs of which at least 8 years in a leadership capacity at second or third level management of teams 30+ across multiple geographies
• Proven experience implementing a data culture and affecting positive change in all functional areas (GTM, marketing, product, finance, etc.) of a high growth, cloud, enterprise B2B software company of $1b+ in revenue with significant business acumen of those landscapes
• Strong ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements and architect; to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems and present solutions to different types of audiences, including executives
• Experience implementing complex machine learning analytical models for predictive business outcomes
• Deep knowledge of modern data stack and infrastructures, i.e., Cloud Data warehouse, data integration tools, Airflow, DBT, Tableau, etc.

What Gives You an Edge:

• Working knowledge of programming languages, i.e. SQL, Python, Java/Scala
• Experience with Kafka or Confluent in a Production environment
• Experience managing data engineering teams

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $268,830 - $322,560 USD, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE.

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