Senior Director, Analytics & Data Science

Role description

Role Overview

As Senior Director of Analytics & Data Science, you will play a key role in how Crusoe makes decisions. This is a new role leading a newly formed team of centralized analysts and data scientists who are embedded directly with the business units and domains they support.

What You Will Do

Stand Up the Central Team, Build and Develop the Team, Set Standards for Analytical Rigor, Build the Data Science Capability, Own Certified Marts and Metric Definitions, Own Executive and Cross-Business Reporting, Drive High-Stakes Decision Support, Build Toward Self-Service, Maintain Close Proximity to the Business, Partner with the Data Team.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate is deeply technical, credible with executives and operators alike, and drawn to complex, cross-functional problems.

Requirements

• 15+ years in analytics or data science, with 5+ years leading teams that include data scientists as well as analysts and analytics engineers.
• Fluency with SQL and Python, strong data modeling instincts, and hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent.
• Direct experience applying forecasting, experimental design, and statistical inference to business problems, including ownership of models in production.
• Experience with a modern data stack (BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, or equivalents).
• Governance Judgment: Experience defining and certifying metrics, testing business rules, resolving entities across systems, and holding the line on definitions when a stakeholder wants their own version of a number.
• Business and Financial Acumen: Comfort with P&L mechanics, unit economics, capital projects, and returns analysis.
• Executive Communication: Credibility in a room with the CFO and business unit leaders.
• Organizational Navigation: Proven ability to operate in a dotted-line structure with competing priorities, earn trust from leaders within the business units, and optimize for the whole company rather than any one team.
• Ownership: Track record of being the go-to person for 'is this number right?' You find problems before they surface in an executive meeting and you own the resolution.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location