Wmg
Director, Data Analytics & Automation
USA - Los Angeles - 777 S · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
PythonCode ReviewSnowflakedbtData AnalysisData ScienceStakeholder ManagementProcess ImprovementLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- As the Director, Data Analytics & Automation, you are a senior player-coach responsible for leading a high-performing team across both data analytics and automation.
- You will help define and execute the roadmap for modern data products, workflow automation, AI-enabled development, and self-service analytics across Warner Chappell.
- This role requires strong business judgment, hands-on technical fluency, people leadership, and the ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into practical solutions that are scalable, governed, and adopted by the business.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop analytics and automation talent, fostering a culture of business partnership, technical excellence, ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with the VP, Data Analytics & Automation and global stakeholders to define priorities across data products, workflow automation, platform modernization, AI-assisted development, and self-service reporting.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and adoption of reusable dbt models, governed Snowflake assets, scheduled Dagster jobs, Streamlit applications, Airtable workflows, dashboards, and recurring reporting products.
- Develop and reinforce best practices for data modeling, code review, documentation, access control, scheduling, quality checks, stakeholder handoff, AI-assisted development, and production support.
- Act as a trusted liaison between business teams, technology partners, data platform stakeholders, and regional leaders to ensure solutions align with business priorities and technical architecture.
- They can guide a team through technical decisions, build confidence with senior stakeholders, and help the organization move from manual operational dependency toward trusted, scalable data products and workflow automation.
- They should bring a continuous-improvement mindset, a strong service orientation, and the judgment to know when to build a quick prototype, when to invest in production infrastructure, and when to challenge the shape of a request so the team solves the right problem.
Requirements
- You have experience helping teams adopt new tools, new processes, and more modern ways of working while staying grounded in business realities.
- The ideal candidate is curious, practical, and comfortable operating across both strategy and execution.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Data Science, Analytics, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- advanced degree preferred.
Benefits
- Regularly report on roadmap progress, delivery health, adoption, risk, operational improvements, and measurable business impact for analytics and automation initiatives.
Company info
- At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.
- As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.
- Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
- Love this job and want to apply?
- Before the fans and fame, the soundtracks and syncs, there is the song. And before the song comes the songwriter - the heart of an art form that defines generations, and the soul of our business. Songwriters are our inspiration
- we are their partners, collaborators, and crusaders. Songwriters shape culture
- and here at Warner Chappell Music we help hone their craft, build their careers, and protect their legacies. We value curiosity, collaboration, and commitment - which helps set us apart and helps us in our commitment and global service to our songwriters. We are Warner Chappell Music - where songwriters are heard.
- As part of the larger Warner Music Group, we're a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
- Songwriters are our inspiration; we are their partners, collaborators, and crusaders.
- Songwriters shape culture; and here at Warner Chappell Music we help hone their craft, build their careers, and protect their legacies.
- At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere.
- Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.
- As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works.
- We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.
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