Director of Business Intelligence
Company Background:
Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men's, Women's, Children's, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.
Job Description:
The Director, Business Intelligence will be responsible for the overall Business Intelligence strategy: from reporting and analysis to database architecture and design to ETL. This is a green-fields opportunity to design and build from the ground up, without having to clean up or deal with legacy systems. It is also an opportunity to design and build a data warehouse for a business model that has not existed until now.
Job Responsibilities:
• Design and build physical and logical schema for enterprise data warehouse, including ETL processes for data processing from multiple sources.
o Define and build highly flexible and responsive reporting platform.
• Partner with Marketing, Merchandising and Predictive Analytics team ensure data is easily accessible through reports and analyses, and that the data is of high quality.
• Build a small but highly motivated team.
• Help build and maintain a rolling plan to achieve the target architecture
• Continually assess new technologies that will enable the business to make data driven decisions faster and/or more efficiently.
• Integrate feeds from transactional database, clickstream (Omniture) and Email interactions.
Qualifications:
• Knowledge of data management and data warehousing technologies related to data modeling, database administration and performance tuning, archiving and disaster recovery.
• Depth of knowledge with industry trends related to Data Warehousing, Data Management, metadata, Master Data Management, unstructured data and data quality practices.
• Strong knowledge of commercial and open source data products, including
o relational database systems (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Vertica),
o parallel processing (Hadoop)
o appliances (Netezza, TeraData),
o ETL (Informatica, Kettle, etc) and
o Reporting (Spotfire, Cognos, Business Objects, Microstrategy).
• Design and develop the architecture for all data warehousing components (e.g. tool integration strategy; source system data ETL strategy, data staging, movement and aggregation; information and analytics delivery; and data quality strategy)
If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]
