VP, Data & Insights
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Job Location:
Geneva, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who is Sonar
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is trusted by 7M developers worldwide including teams at the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.Why You Should Apply:At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany.
Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
As the VP of Data & Insights you will be the strategic architect of Sonars data future transforming data from a supporting function into a core competitive this high-impact role you will bridge the gap between complex technical data engineering challenges and critical business questions ensuring that our teams are empowered with truth and clarity.
You will move the organization beyond reactive reporting to predictive insights challenging our current ways of working to drive speed and efficiency. By building and inspiring a world-class team of high performing Data Engineers Analytical Engineers and Analysts/Data Scientists you will define how Sonar captures processes and leverages datafrom product telemetry to CRM insightsultimately enabling us to serve our 7M developer community more effectively.
What You Will Do
- Strategic Vision & Roadmap: define and drive the company-wide insights strategy specifically identifying the types of data we need to capture how to store and transform it into accessible data models enabling both self-serve and in-depth exploration and modelling to drive future growth.
- Team Leadership & Design: design and build a future-proof organization of high performing team members. Establish clear view of team role competencies and performance expectations set development plans and help team members successfully adjust to the changing and growing demands of a fast-growing company
- Operational Excellence: Inspire motivate and monitor team performance setting high standards for data accuracy availability collaborative problem-solving and efficient service delivery.
- Technical Problem Solving: Collaborate deeply with Data Engineers and Analytical Engineers to solve complex data access and integration issues ensuring efficient pipelines from diverse sources.
- Prioritization: Partner with executive leadership to ruthlessly prioritize data requests balancing urgent business analysis needs with long-term infrastructure turn guide team members on workload balance to ensure flexibility to respond to urgent exec requirements short-term business needs and longer-term assignments.
- Tooling & Process Evolution: Assess our current data stack and processes; make bold experience-based recommendations to modernize our tooling and adopt industry best practices to drive speed and efficiency.
- Change Management: Review existing ways of working with a focus on speed and impact; drive the adoption of a data-first mindset across all departments.
- Business Analysis: Oversee the delivery of high-value business analysis ensuring stakeholders understand not just what happened but why it matters and what to do next.
- Drive ownership: build a culture of ownership moving from just receiving and executing on data requests to proactively engaging on the business situation requiring the analysis thinking through different options to find the most suitable solution and helping to land the analysis ensuring accurate interpretation and action.
The Experience You Will Need
- B2B SaaS Leadership: 10 years of experience in Data & Insights leadership roles with a strong preference for high-growth B2B SaaS environments.
- Multi-Disciplinary Management: Proven experience managing and scaling diverse teams that include Data Engineers Analytical Engineers Data Analysts and Data Scientists.
- Technical Fluency: Strong understanding of modern data stacks (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery dbt Looker Tableau) and the ability to speak the language of engineering to solve data architecture challenges.
- Strategic Data Acquisition: Demonstrated success in defining data capture strategies particularly regarding product usage (telemetry) and Go-To-Market data (CRM/Marketing Automation).
- Transformation Experience: A track record of entering established organizations assessing capabilities and successfully restructuring teams/processes to improve velocity and quality.
- Business Acumen: Exceptional ability to translate complex data into clear business narratives; you can debate strategy with the CRO and architecture with the CTO.
- Bias for Action: You are comfortable working with ambiguity and can make deliberate decisions quickly to keep the team moving forward.
Why You Will Love it Here
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working with Sonar
- 100% coverage of employee premiums through BUPA for medical dental and Employee Assistance Programs
- Vision benefit through Sun Life which Includes an annual vision exam and vision hardware benefits
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 days of annual leave for our employees based out of our London hub plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Employer matching contribution pension scheme for up to 5%.
- Commuting:Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription
- Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:
At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race colour religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Business Development
- Eclipse
- Economics
- Accounting
- Corporate Risk Management
- Brokerage
About Company
Bad code is risky business. AI-generated or written by humans, Sonar ensures top-tier code quality & security. Protect your organization from bugs and vulnerabilities that jeopardize customer trust, damage your reputation, and undermine developer experience.
