Senior Director Enterprise Data & Insights

Job description

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,300 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Square, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Summer 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About the Role & Team

We’re looking for a Sr Director, Enterprise Data & Insights to lead our data strategy, operations, and analytics function. This role will oversee a team of high-performing data engineers, analysts, and visualization experts who are passionate about turning raw data into business-critical insights. You’ll play a key role in shaping our data ecosystem, ensuring our platforms are scalable, reliable, and governed, while empowering stakeholders across the company to make smarter, faster decisions.

This position is best suited for candidates in the Eastern time zone (excluding the New York City metropolitan area) to facilitate collaboration with our global team.

As a Sr Director, Enterprise Data & Insights, you will:

• Provide hands-on technical & architectural leadership as a role model for delivering outstanding projects to our business stakeholders.
• Make the data AI-ready to augment Amplitude’s AI journey. Own and evolve our enterprise data strategy, spanning ingestion, storage, governance, and visualization.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance data infrastructures for structured and unstructured data with clear data models, taxonomies, and semantic layers.
• Deliver Critical business reporting and analytics across various domains ie finance, GTM, Product, Customer Support, etc
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of data professionals across AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, analytics, and BI.
• Expand the Data Governance program at Amplitude, keeping Data Security and quality at the forefront.
• Drive adoption and best practices for Snowflake, Tableau, DBT, Fivetran, and other key tools in our stack.
• Partner closely with business and technology leaders to ensure data is trusted, accessible, and actionable for strategic decision-making.
• Build scalable processes and frameworks that improve data quality, compliance, and accessibility across the organization.

You’ll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Deep Technical & Architectural expertise in the Data ecosystem with a vision for the AI journey.
• A passion for building high-performing, collaborative teams — you get energy from developing others.
• A knack for translating complex data concepts into clear business value (we love when data tells a story).
• Experience bringing order to messy data environments and scaling them with structure and governance.
• A “toolbox” mindset — you’re fluent in modern platforms like Snowflake, Tableau, Fivetran, and you’re always exploring what’s next.
• Curiosity and pragmatism — you know when to experiment and when to standardize.

At a minimum, you need to have:

• 15-20 years of hands-on experience in data strategy, engineering, or analytics, with at least 10+ years leading teams.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Proven leadership experience managing teams of 20+ across diverse data functions.
• Deep experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, Tableau, DBT, Fivetran) and governance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; you can influence at the executive level while rolling up your sleeves when needed.
• Demonstrated success in building scalable data ecosystems that drive measurable business outcomes.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They’ve said we’re the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

By applying for this job, you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

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