Director, Data and Analytics

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.     We're proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a 
Director, Data and Analytics and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.  This will be a remote role working out of your home office in the United States.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead the transformation of our enterprise data environment by migrating from our legacy SQL Server data warehouse to a modern data platform, positioning the company for scale, performance, and data trust.
• Drive the transition from Tableau Server to Power BI as our standard visualization and analytics layer, including the rationalization of legacy dashboards and adoption of a governed semantic layer.
• Ensure the successful delivery and long-term integration of the ARR & Renewal Pool Data Product, working closely with our third-party partner to align architecture, prevent rework, enable trust, and increase business adoption.
• Own and evolve our data engineering, analytics engineering, and BI/reporting teams, ensuring the right structure, roles, and workflows to balance day to day support and strategic execution.
• Implement a predictable data product operating model, including intake, prioritization, SLAs, ceremonies, and communication rhythms that create transparency and confidence in delivery.
• Partner closely with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, Product, and IT to ensure data quality, availability, and adoption across the business.
• Establish foundational data governance, quality management, and lifecycle practices, ensuring our data is accurate, secure, and trusted.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with executives — setting expectations, sequencing work, highlighting trade-offs, and providing status visibility throughout the modernization journey.

Your background: 

• 10+ years in Data & Analytics, including experience leading a data platform modernization initiative in a complex enterprise environment.
• Proven success driving adoption of Power BI or a similar enterprise visualization platform, with an emphasis on Self-Service rather than Dashboard curation, at scale.
• Strong familiarity with modern Data Platform concepts, semantic modeling, and analytics platform architecture, with the ability to challenge technical assumptions and guide design decisions.
• Experience building or maturing data platforms, governance practices, semantic models, AI-enabled analytics and data product delivery frameworks.
• Track record of leading data engineering, analytics engineering, and BI/reporting teams, ideally in a distributed or global model.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with GTM, Finance, IT, and Executive leadership to align priorities and drive adoption.

Your soft skills:

• Product Mindset: You deliver outcomes, not artifacts — focusing on clarity, usability, adoption, and business value.
• Expectation Setter: You communicate early, directly, and clearly, especially around timelines, trade-offs, and priorities.
• Influential Leader: You earn trust, challenge assumptions, and can say "no" in a way that leads to alignment, not friction.
• Calm in Ambiguity: You bring structure to complex environments and create clarity in moments of change.
• Business-Savvy Storyteller: You translate complex data and technical concepts into simple, actionable business language.
• Team Developer: You coach, align, and elevate talent — building a predictable, high-trust, high-ownership operating model.

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we'd be happy to chat.   

What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:  

• Compensation: Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback.
• Benefits: Premium Collective Health Insurance Plan with a monthly employer contribution and Premium Collective Pension Scheme fully funded by Progress
• Time-off and Leave: Generous vacation allowance, an additional day off for your birthday, and days off for volunteering
• Well-being: A global well-being program focused on physical, mental, and financial health.
• Focus on Employee Experience: We aim to create an environment where people view their time at Progress as their best career chapter by seeking your feedback, partnering with you and recognizing and celebrating the moments that matter.
• Career Growth: We empower you to own your career and personalize your growth with career development tools, internal career mobility, knowledge sharing, and learning opportunities

Together, We Make Progress

Progress is an inclusive workplace where opportunities to succeed are available to everyone. As a multicultural company serving a global community, we encourage a wide range of points of view and celebrate our diverse backgrounds. Our unique combination of perspectives inspires innovation, connects us to our customers and positively affects our communities. It is only by working together and learning from each other that we make Progress. Join us