VP of Data Analytics

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

GameChanger is looking to add a Vice President of Data Analytics to our senior leadership team. In this role, the VP will lead our analytics team and provide business intelligence and analytical support to the rest of the organization. You will also collaborate with other leaders to build a strategy to deliver data as a Product. You will further build out and lead a team of data professionals that develop and maintain tools that assist in the analysis of complex business issues. Being part of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will report directly to our President.

What You'll Do:

• Own the management and transformation of our data into insights, while partnering and collaborating with team members to build a strategy to deliver data as a product (DaaP).
• Further build out a team that provides embeds a data culture across all of our teams and departments and is a trusted data partner for the rest of the organization
• Analyze data for trends or patterns to identify business issues that need to be addressed, communicate with internal customers about results of analyses and develop data-driven strategies for overcoming these problems. 
• Clearly communicate business goals so that team members can determine how analytics can help them achieve those goals.
• Build infrastructure to quickly and easily segment our customers and prospects across all verticals (sports) and customer profiles (buyers and users) and easily report out on KPI's within each to enable business leaders to make decisions.
• Create the information architecture and taxonomy that builds common understanding and use of data, KPI's and information flow.Collaborate with the Data Engineering team to ensure that the company’s data is clean, accurate, current, stable and reliable. 
• Ensure all data systems across departments properly sync, have identified hierarchy and are architected for rapid scale and growth.
• Develop and own vendor relationships for external systems.
• Achieve tangible results in a dynamic environment, providing thought-leadership and strategy, while also knowing when to jump in, roll up your sleeves, and lead from the front. “Hands-on” in this role means you will be expected to own, review and, when necessary, assist with data architecture, data models, algorithms, code, and other development tasks as required.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of overall engineering and business operations experience, with 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience leading in an agile, fast moving, and rapid change environment.
• Demonstrated success scaling SaaS companies in hyper growth mode (e.g. scaling from 50M-200M in revenues).
• Experience leading complex initiatives and application environments that span multiple data sources. Strong technical understanding of data warehousing, data modeling and data engineering.
• A highly skilled communicator and empathetic leader who has a track record of developing your team while delivering business results.
• Ability to influence others at the senior leadership level and across multiple departments.
• You have the enthusiasm and ability to deliver products with a high bar for quality, time to market, and user experience.
• Bachelor or Masters degree in CS or Engineering a plus.

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in NYC's FiDi.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.
• Generous parental leave.
• Commuter benefits.
• DICK'S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $250,000 and $300,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.