Meredith

Meredith

Senior Vice President, Data Operations

New York, NY - 225 Liberty Street · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$315k-$375kDetected 30 days ago
Distributed SystemsBigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftAWSGCPCloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsComplianceResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • People Inc. is a leading digital media company reaching millions of consumers across a diverse portfolio of iconic brands.
  • Define and execute a multi-year data platform strategy, aligned to company-wide goals across content, audience, advertising, and product.
  • Serve as the executive voice of data - advising the CTO and C-suite on data architecture decisions, investments, and organizational structure, influencing how the company measures success.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the evolution of our data warehouse/lakehouse strategy (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, DBT) and ensure the platform is built for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.
  • Build a trusted data foundation - ensuring every downstream team operates from a single, authoritative source of truth.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Data Science leadership to align roadmaps and ensure data capabilities are tightly coupled to company priorities.
  • Drive the company's data infrastructure readiness for generative AI and ML applications - including model training pipelines, embedding stores, and experiment tracking.
  • Partner with Product and Editorial teams to identify opportunities where advanced analytics and AI can create measurable impact.
  • Ensure the platform is designed for both technical and self-serve users, enabling analysts, data scientists, and product, and all other teams which use data to move quickly and independently.
  • Own data pipeline architecture across streaming (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and batch frameworks, ensuring low-latency data delivery at scale.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data platform architecture, or analytics infrastructure.
  • At least 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role.
  • Proven track record designing and scaling petabyte-level data platforms in a high-traffic, data-intensive industry (preferably media, e-commerce, fintech, or similar).
  • Deep expertise across the modern data stack: data lakes/lakehouses, cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), stream processing (Kafka, Flink, Dataflow), and orchestration (Airflow, Dagster).
  • Lead exploration and strategy around the foundational data products required to support use in both internal and external AI applications

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field is required
  • a Master's or PhD is a plus.
  • Exceptional communication and executive presence-ability to speak fluently with engineers and senior management alike.
  • Experience in digital media, content platforms, or advertising technology is strongly preferred.
  • Shape how AI and advanced analytics transform the future of media, content, and audience intelligence.

Skills

  • Hybrid 3x a week- (New York, NY)
  • Strong command of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and experience managing large-scale distributed systems at production quality.
  • Experience establishing data governance programs, metadata management, and data quality frameworks at enterprise scale.
  • Lead adoption of emerging data and AI technologies.

Compensation

  • New York: $315,000.00 - $375,000.00
  • The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future.
  • Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance.
  • The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees.
  • Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

Company info

  • About The Position | Major goals and objectives and location requirements
  • We are seeking a Senior Vice President of Data Platform to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our enterprise-wide data infrastructure.
  • As a data-first media company operating at petabyte scale, data is the connective tissue across our editorial, product, advertising, and audience development functions.
  • This is a defining leadership role for someone who can operate at the intersection of deep technical excellence and enterprise strategy - architecting the systems that power how we understand our content, our audiences, and our business.
  • Our content informs, entertains, and shapes culture and increasingly, data, at multi-petabyte scale, is the engine behind how we create, distribute, and monetize that content.
  • Operating in a real-time, multi-platform ecosystem, we rely on data to understand audience behavior, optimize content performance, power advertising solutions, and unlock new revenue streams.
  • The SVP of Data Platform will build and lead a high-performing team, partnering closely with Engineering, Data Science, Ad Tech, Research, Product, Editorial, Revenue, Business, and Marketing leadership, serving as the company's foremost authority on all things data.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender id
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