Director, Data Strategy and Analytics Enablement (Hybrid MA, NY, NH, NJ, PA)

About the role

The Director, Data Strategy & Enablement is a strategic, highly visible leadership role responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide data strategy while ensuring data is translated into scalable, actionable business value. This leader will bridge business strategy and data execution, converting commercial priorities, KPIs, and processes into high-impact, reusable data and analytics solutions. This role partners closely with the CTO organization and global delivery teams (including offshore COEs) to design, build, and enable a modern, scalable data ecosystem and analytics-ready data products. The Director will lead cross-functional alignment across business, technology, and analytics teams while ensuring strong data governance, quality, and compliance in regulated environments. The ideal candidate combines data strategy, product thinking, and enterprise leadership, with a proven ability to operate in complex global models and deliver both immediate business impact and long-term scalable data assets.

Responsibilities

• Translate commercial strategy, business processes, and KPIs into scalable data and analytics requirements that drive measurable outcomes.
• Define and execute an enterprise-wide Data Strategy & Enablement roadmap aligned to business priorities and digital transformation goals.
• Partner with Human Insights, Product & Experience, Commercial Analytics, and Market Intelligence teams to ensure data products are usable, consistent, and aligned to downstream needs.
• Standardize business definitions, logic, and data models to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Lead development of modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, cloud data lakes/warehouses) to support advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases.
• Architect and optimize complex data ecosystems, integrating data across CRM, ERP, hubs, telemetry, and third-party sources.
• Define end-to-end data flows, ensuring seamless ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Engineering to implement scalable integration frameworks and interoperability standards.
• Facilitate cross-functional governance forums, prioritization decisions, and roadmap alignment.
• Establish and embed enterprise-grade data governance frameworks, including data standards, lineage, quality, and access controls.
• Ensure compliance with global regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR), partnering with Legal, Risk, Security, and Compliance teams.
• Establish clear prioritization frameworks for data initiatives across stakeholders.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of data strategists, product leads, and governance experts.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data strategy, data architecture, data product management, or analytics enablement within complex, global organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into data and analytics solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
• Proven experience leading across business, technology (CTO), and global offshore delivery teams.
• Strong experience developing scalable data products and reusable data assets on modern platforms (e.g., Databricks, Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Deep expertise in data governance, quality, lineage, and regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
• Experience architecting and integrating complex data ecosystems across multiple internal and external sources.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end data flows, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and consumption.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, including ability to lead without authority.

Preferred

• Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, or related field.
• Experience in healthcare, medical device, or regulated industries.
• Familiarity with AI/ML data enablement and advanced analytics ecosystems.
• Experience working in global, matrixed organizations with offshore CoE models.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $195,500.00 - $293,300.00. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation.

Schedule

This position is eligible for hybrid working arrangements and requires on-site work from an Insulet office.