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Who are we? UpGuards mission is to make life easier for security teams. We meticulously create robust solutions that enable our customers to identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity risk across their attack surface, vendor ecosystem, workforce, and trust relationships. Our integrated cyber risk posture management platform combines comprehensive security ratings, instant risk assessments, templated security questionnaires, threat intelligence capabilities, and agentic AI to give organizations a holistic view of their risk surface. Our Analytics team at UpGuard supports all of our teams to extract key insights from the data that we collect. We extract data from multiple sources and build insightful dashboards to display key metrics and support leaders to make decisions. We also build integrations between systems to seamlessly collect required data. Where does this role fit in? As UpGuard continues its rapid growth trajectory, we are seeking an accomplished and visionary Director of Analytics. Reporting to the VP of Analytics, this critical role is responsible for driving significant business value through strategic insights, selfservice business intelligence development, and operational data support. The Director will establish and oversee analytics roadmaps and projects, meticulously capture stakeholder requirements, and ensure delivery is executed with an automationfirst mindset as the company scales. What will you do? Generate compelling and actionable insights from complex data sets that directly lead to demonstrable commercial success across the organisation. Establish strong collaborative relationships and engage closely with key stakeholders across all departments of the company, to effectively prioritise and drive highimpact data analytics initiatives. Partner strategically with the A3 team to provide robust selfservice conversational analytics capabilities and to utilise designthinking principles for the creation of critical, userfriendly dashboards. Work with the data engineering team to design, construct, and maintain foundational data assets and robust data products for reliable, organisationwide consumption and use. Proactively identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive manual data analysis across the business by leveraging cuttingedge, stateoftheart data science capabilities and machinelearning models, in close partnership with the lead data scientist. Personally conduct thorough, handson, highly technical data analysis to effectively diagnose and solve the most significant and complex business challenges facing the company. What will you bring? 3+ years leading an Analytics function within a highgrowth SaaS company. Demonstrated experience transforming an existing Analytics function in partnership with Data Engineering. Strong understanding of modern data infrastructure (e.g., cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery; ETL/ELT tools; dbt model development; modern data visualisation tools like ThoughtSpot, OMNI, Looker). Exceptional business acumen and the ability to translate data into strategic insights that drive tangible business value. Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, with the ability to articulate complex analytical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences and influence decisionmaking. Highly analytical and strategic mindset, with a proven track record of developing and executing data strategies that align with business objectives. Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining top analytical talent. Directly engage in the creation of fundamental data and Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure and assets. What will give you an edge? Proven experience as a data scientist or AI engineer, ideally within a SaaS company environment. Experience in developing and deploying FP+A solutions, board reporting, or other relevant commercial applications. Extensive background in continuous improvement methodologies, including Kanban and sprint planning, with a demonstrable history of process optimisations. Whats in it for you? Monthly Lifestyle subsidy to support your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing. Workfromhome setup allowance during your first three months. $1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance to support your career development. Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days. 18 weeks paid parental leave, irrespective of parenting role. Personal leave allowance covering sick and carers leave. Fully remote working environment; no mandatory office attendance. Topspec hardware provided for all team members. Generative AI subsidy: paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools. UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, UK, and India, with 99% of team members agreeing it is a great place to work. As an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or presentation, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. For applications to positions in the United States, we can only support hiring in the following states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC. Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, reference checks, and be unable to receive visa sponsorship or relocation support. We may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analysing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. #J-18808-Ljbffr