Director, Business Intelligence

LearnUpon is looking for a Director to lead our Business Intelligence team in Dublin.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

We are looking for a strategic Business Intelligence Director to lead our BI team. In this role you will lead a team of analysts & data engineers driving automation, data governance, and impactful insights that shape our business strategy. The ideal candidate will establish a data discipline that enhances decision-making, drives efficiency, and evangelizes a central source of truth across the company.

The BI Team at LearnUpon works across Marketing, Sales, Finance, Product, and Customer Success to power dashboards and automation on everything from product usage to our go-to-market pipeline. They own the data warehouse, data engineering pipelines, dashboards and deepdives. You will lead the team in efforts to provide consistent, scalable, and actionable insights using advanced BI tools and methodologies.

What will I be doing?

• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a team of data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists
• Drive key technical & design discussions with the teams, covering data pipelines, tooling, data interpretation, stats, and data delivery in dashboards/reports/insights
• Drive company wide data governance and data hygiene by collaborating with Business leaders across Sales, CX, Finance, Product, and Security to certify metrics, dashboards, and integrations
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters ownership, accountability, transparency and innovation
• Be a role model who inspires people to action and holds a high bar for data quality and data interpretability
• Drive alignment and buy-in across the org for an overall long-term BI technology road map

What skills do I need?            

• 6+ years of hands-on technical management experience
• 5+ years of experience in an IC data role - such as data analysis, data science, or data engineering
• Deep knowledge of developing business intelligence & insights, from data ingestion, data pipelines/roll-ups, data cleansing, and final dashboard design
• Ability to convey the right message to the right people at just the right time, with the purpose of keeping the business moving forward
• Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends in data tooling
• Strong understanding of and passion for data governance and data quality
• Track record of recruiting and growing top talent
• Strong management skills for planning and executing complex projects

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a big plus

• Experience in our stack - Snowflake + Airflow + Superset/Streamlit

Why work with us?

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go
• Structured learning environment
• Competitive salary and company ESOP
• Private health insurance
• 25 days annual leave + 1 Company day off

What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews, including a task
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with our CSO
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

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