Head of Business Data Strategy and Insights

About SecurityScorecard

SecurityScorecard is an industry-leading cybersecurity company backed by Google, Sequoia, and Riverwood. Our mission is to make the world a safer place. We measure your vendors' cyber-health by assigning a security rating of "A" through "F" based on outside-in, non-intrusive data. Our Comprehensive security ratings, advanced data analytics, and actionable insights discover Third-Party Vulnerabilities & Security Gaps In Real-Time.

SecurityScorecard is headquartered in NYC with 450+ employees globally as a remote first company. Our culture has helped us be recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace," "Best Places to Work in NYC" by Crain's NY, and one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row.

About The Role

SecurityScorecard is looking to hire a Head of Business Data Strategy and Insights to lead our Business Intelligence(BI) team. As a key business partner to the company’s leadership team, the Head 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 Head of Business 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 make predictions; machine learning algorithms, predictive modeling processes that can handle both structured and unstructured data. 
• Demonstrated ability with multiple data disciplines, including  dbt, R, SQL, Python, data warehousing and ETL technologies, statistics and data science, BI tools, and modern engineering practices
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The ability to develop compelling written communications (memos/emails) and presentations (slide decks).
• PMP, CAPM, or Scrum/Agile certification is nice to have
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

If you are a resident of Colorado or New York City, please email us at talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io to receive compensation information for this role.

SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law. 

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io.

Any information you submit to SecurityScorecard as part of your application will be processed in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy and applicable law. 

SecurityScorecard does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.