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Senior Director, Decision Analytics

Remote US · Director

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$303kDetected 1 day ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningdbtData ScienceData VisualizationA/B TestingExcelLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Description Sprout Social is seeking a Senior Director, Decision Analytics to join our Strategy & Business Operations team.
  • In this senior leadership role, you will head our centralized Decision Analytics function, overseeing the data science and analytics teams that power strategic choices across the entire company.
  • Inheriting a team mid-transformation, you will define how every major function at Sprout utilizes data to accelerate growth and maximize business impact for years to come.

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead Decision Analytics, Sprout's centralized analytics and data science function, spanning domain-specialized pods supporting Marketing, Revenue, Product, and Finance across the full organization
  • Drive a fundamental shift in how Sprout's business teams use data: from reactive reporting to proactive, insight-driven decision-making that creates measurable business impact
  • Serve as the primary analytics and data science thought partner to senior business stakeholders across the organization, building deep relationships, understanding what each team is trying to accomplish, and guiding the team to deliver the highest-leverage work
  • Lead and develop a team of managers, analysts, and data scientists across multiple domain pods, creating a culture of proactive partnership, intellectual curiosity, and high standards
  • Partner closely with the Director of Data Enablement on data infrastructure and analytics engineering requirements, ensuring the analytical layer is built on a trustworthy and scalable data foundation
  • Champion AI-forward thinking across the analytics and data science function, identifying opportunities to incorporate AI and automation into how the team works and what it delivers
  • Drive change management as the organization completes its transition to a centralized analytics model, building trust with stakeholders, establishing new ways of working, and helping the team thrive in a new operating structure
  • Collaborate cross-functionally without ego
  • Collaborate cross-functionally without ego; this role requires a genuine collaborator who is more invested in outcomes than ownership
  • Establishing a clear operating model for how Decision Analytics works - how work gets prioritized, how pods partner with stakeholders, and how the team communicates its impact

Requirements

  • Strategic Altitude: The ability to move fluidly between high-level executive strategy and granular, hands-on technical execution.
  • The ability to move fluidly between high-level executive strategy and granular, hands-on technical execution.
  • You are a seasoned data leader who pairs technical and analytical depth with sharp business fluency.
  • You are just as comfortable diving into a complex modeling problem with a data scientist as you are advising a CRO on pipeline strategy.

Nice to have

  • Change Management: Experience leading an analytics organization through a major consolidation, restructure, or operating model transformation.
  • AI Innovation: An AI-forward mindset with practical experience integrating AI tools and automation to accelerate and scale analytical workflows.
  • Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:
  • Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:
  • Within 6 months, you'll be making a clear impact through:
  • Demonstrating a measurable shift in how business stakeholders experience the analytics function: more proactive, more strategic, more trusted
  • Leading Decision Analytics through its next phase - from a newly consolidated function to a mature, high-performing team with a clear identity and a strong reputation across Sprout
  • Establishing a team culture defined by curiosity, proactive partnership, and a relentless focus on business impact - not just analytical output

Compensation

  • 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
  • Our salary ranges reflect the expected earning potential for this role.
  • We share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy.

Benefits

  • If you want to leave a lasting legacy on a scaling company's data culture, this is where you belong.
  • Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits.
  • Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line.

Company info

  • We are completely rebuilding our centralized data approach, making this role the single most important hire for our department's future.
  • We are a team that values curiosity, a fierce bias toward action, and leaders who can move fluidly between high-level strategy and granular execution.
  • However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed.
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