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We are a team of innovators who engineer, manufacture, and relentlessly pursue quality, driven by a shared commitment to exceeding our customers’ expectations.\nWe are seeking a Principal Data Analytics & Automation to join our team.\nPosition Overview\nThis hands-on technical leadership role builds and owns Luna’s data, business intelligence, and automation capabilities. It establishes the trusted data and reporting foundation leadership needs to run the business and designs automation and AI solutions that improve scale, efficiency, and decision-making.\nThe role also supports critical operating processes, including commissions, forecasting, procurement planning, S&OP, and executive reporting. Success requires a combination of business judgment, analytical leadership, and hands-on technical ability to maintain today’s business-critical solutions while building a scalable foundation for the future.\nInitial priorities will focus on ensuring continuity of existing analytical solutions, institutionalizing their ownership and documentation, and establishing a phased roadmap for Luna’s future data and automation capabilities.\nKey Responsibilities\nData & Business Intelligence\nOwn the OCT BU business intelligence function, including dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide leadership with a consistent and accurate view of business performance.\nManage the weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting cadence covering bookings, billings, backlog, forecast, pipeline health, and operational KPIs.\nDesign and implement an automated Bookings, Billings, and Backlog reporting process using Salesforce and NetSuite data, replacing the current manual executive reporting process.\nPartner with functional leaders to define and align KPIs and business metrics, reconcile data discrepancies, and maintain consistent reporting and a reliable source of truth across functions.\nProduce ad hoc analyses and executive-ready summaries that translate data into insights, decisions, and actions.\nBuild organizational capability through self-service analytics, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and the development of data and reporting best practices.\nData Architecture, Automation & AI\nAssess Luna’s analytical data architecture and develop a scalable roadmap; build the business case for the recommended approach and lead or support implementation.\nDefine the data governance framework and common business definitions needed to support trusted reporting, self-service analytics, and reliable automation.\nIdentify, prioritize, and implement practical AI and automation opportunities that improve productivity, decision-making, operational performance, or customer experience.\nDesign and build automated workflows and AI-enabled solutions for high-value manual reporting and operational processes.\nEstablish appropriate governance for AI and automation, including security, data privacy, access, cost, output validation, human oversight, documentation, and ongoing support.\nBuild organizational capability in data and analytics by mentoring team members, sharing technical knowledge, establishing best practices, and enabling others to confidently use and support Luna’s data, reporting, and automation solutions.\nBusiness Operations & Performance Management\nProvide data, analysis, and automation supporting executive reporting, forecasting, quota planning, territory and capacity analysis, compensation analytics, procurement planning, and commissions.\nOwn the technical integrity, calculation logic, controls, and continued enhancement of Luna’s commission solution; partner with Sales Operations and Finance on cycle execution, exception resolution, approvals, and audit requirements.\nPartner with Sales and Finance on annual quota development, territory and capacity analysis, midyear adjustments, and compensation analytics.\nEstablish sustainable institutional ownership of analytical solutions through source control, documentation, testing, monitoring, change control, backup procedures, and defined support handoffs.\nGovern the OCT Business Operations data environment, including SharePoint-based reporting outputs and documentation, while supporting the transition to a scalable enterprise data platform.\nRequired Qualifications\nStrong business or sales operations knowledge, including sales processes, compensation, quotas, forecasting, or S&OP; able to recognize questionable results and trace issues to their source.\nDemonstrated ability to translate business needs into meaningful KPIs, analytical solutions, and executive-ready insights and recommendations.\nDemonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI technologies, with hands-on experience integrating AI-enabled tools or workflows to improve productivity, analysis, or problem-solving.\nStrong Python development experience including the ability to understand, troubleshoot, enhance, test, document, and maintain existing production applications, data pipelines, and integrations\nStrong SQL and data-querying skills, including experience with SOQL, SuiteQL, and accessing enterprise data through saved searches, APIs, or comparable methods.\nExperience building reliable integrations, including authentication, error handling, monitoring, data reconciliation, and access controls.\nExperience with business intelligence and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. platforms.\nKnowledge of data governance and scalable cloud data architecture, including consistent data definitions, documentation, and integration patterns, and analytical platforms.\nHands-on experience building governed AI-enabled workflows using OpenAI, Claude, or comparable technologies, including structured outputs, tool integration, validation, and human oversight.\nPreferred Qualifications\n7+yearsof progressive experience in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data automation, or a related field, including responsibility for business-critical analytical solutions.\nExperience managing a sales commission cycle from source data validation through calculation, exception resolution, approval, and audit support.\nExperience with manufacturing or supply chain processes, including BOMs, MRP, inventory planning, lead times, or S&OP.\nExperience with the NetSuite data model, including SuiteQL, saved searches, or SuiteTalk APIs.\nExperience with Salesforce data, reporting structures, or integrations.\nExperience with Celigo or another integration or ETL platform.\nExperience evaluating or implementing a cloud-based data warehouse or comparable analytical data platform.\nExperience designing multi-step AI-enabled workflows or agent-based automation.\nLuna Innovations is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Luna provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or veteran status. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. 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