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Reporting directly to the SVP of Product, Data & Commercial Technology, this role is responsible for driving customer engagement, revenue growth, operational efficiency, and digital transformation across a multi-brand enterprise serving both B2B and B2C customers.\nThe VP owns the strategy, execution, and evolution of the enterprise data roadmap, overseeing data infrastructure, business intelligence, analytics, and data science capabilities that enable personalized customer experiences, data-driven decision-making, and scalable business growth. This leader will also build, develop, and inspire high-performing teams while fostering a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.\nYou will lead two key functions:\nData Engineering & Business Intelligence: Responsible for modernizing enterprise data infrastructure, data platforms, governance, and business intelligence engineering.\nData Science & Analytics: Responsible for advanced analytics, machine learning, and applied data science to improve customer acquisition, onboarding, retention, engagement, and overall business performance.\nYou have a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives from strategy through execution. You excel at delivering enterprise-wide programs aligned with C-suite priorities, driving measurable business outcomes while managing long-term initiatives across internal and external stakeholders.\nThis is a highly collaborative leadership role, partnering closely with the Chief Commercial Officer, Business Unit COOs, SVP of Product & Design, SVP of Product Engineering, executive leadership, board members, and cross-functional teams to translate strategic business objectives into scalable technology solutions and deliver an integrated commercial, product, and customer experience strategy.\nYou are a strategic, business-minded leader who builds high-performing organizations, leads through change, and consistently delivers results. You foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and empowered teams while maintaining a strong focus on business outcomes, innovation, and engineering excellence. \n\nPosition Responsibilities: \n\nStrategic Leadership & Vision \nDefine and execute a comprehensive technology strategy for commercial systems, data infrastructure, and customer engagement platforms. \nBuild the next-generation customer engagement \"Engine,” delivering measurable improvements in customer acquisition, retention, ARPU, and EBITDA. \nBuild and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders from the board to practitioner- level to align technology initiatives with business objectives driving digital transformation. \nIntegrate data functions, unifying data infrastructure, creating self-service BI capacity, and optimizing teams to align data and analytics efforts with commercial, product, and CX goals. \nChampion the shift to an integrated commercial and product strategy by enabling self- service for functional teams and delivering more high-value algorithmic work using AI/ML. \nTeam Leadership and Development \nBuild and scale a high-performing team of ~25 FTEs and consultants, including resources for Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science. \nLead the transformation of the Data organization into a value-driven (vs. technology-driven) model supporting commercial, digital product, and customer experience domains. \nGuide the evolution of the team from baseline support to a mature omnichannel enablement organization leveraging data and insights to drive revenue, EBITDA and NPS. \nDevelop a leadership layer across Data and Engine functions through internal advancement, role re-definition, and strategic hiring to create scale and accountability for stakeholders. \nCultivate a culture of value delivery, transparency, and accountability, while driving iterative improvement, greater operational rigor and prioritization of high-value ML innovation work. \nTechnology Leadership \nDirect the modernization of enterprise-wide data infrastructure, BI, analytics and data science tools, migrating, consolidating and standardizing tools and vendors. \nEnsure alignment between BI, analytics, and Data Science initiatives and business goals, leveraging continuous testing and optimization to enhance customer and enterprise value. \nEnsure alignment between commercial technology initiatives and customer-facing product roadmap, software development and integration initiatives. \nPartner with external vendors including Salesforce, AWS, and implementation partners, to deliver cost-effective solutions while maintaining strategic direction and execution quality. \nCross-Functional Collaboration \nPartner closely with the Chief Commercial Officer, COO for Online, COO for Campus, and SVP Product to ensure seamless execution of commercial technology strategies. \nCollaborate with sales, marketing and partner leadership to align technology with operational 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\nHands-on experience leading teams in creating business leverage (Revenue, EBITDA, NPS) using commercial technology and customer engagement platforms to grow and scale these capabilities on a strategic basis. \nTrack record building and scaling high-performing technical and business-facing teams \nDeep understanding of the modern data stack and its deployment for BI, Analytics and Data Science applications in commercial and product use cases, with a track record of successful implementations at scale. \nDemonstrated success partnering with boards, C-level executives and cross-functional implementation teams, navigating resistance and generating buy-in from stakeholders \nSuperior communication skills, with an emphasis on brevity, clarity, and data-driven persuasion. \nIndustry experience in education, B2C, or consumer-facing products/services 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