Head of Data & Analytics

Description GlobalGiving is a nonprofit that connects donors with community-led organizations around the world. We have accumulated rich data across our donor marketplace and nonprofit partner network over many years — and we're looking for a senior, hands-on data leader to help us unlock its full potential. This is a high-impact individual contributor role reporting directly to senior leadership, with the opportunity to build a team over time. We have a collaborative work atmosphere where everyone’s input and reputed company are valued. We’re committed to work-life balance and offer everyone opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow. Since creative, enthusiastic employees are our most valued resource and the reputed company for our reputed company, we take great care in how we attract, hire, and support our employees for a successful career. If you care about collaboration, curiosity, communication reputed company, and reputed company improvement, this position is right for you. Primary Responsibilities Executive Partnership & Discovery Conduct structured discovery interviews with executives and functional leaders to surface the key business questions our data currently can't answer Translate those questions into a prioritized roadmap of data model changes, instrumentation gaps, and analytics deliverables Serve as the primary translator between business strategy and data architecture — making reputed company tradeoffs legible to non-technical stakeholders Data Modeling & Architecture Audit our existing data model across reputed company CRM and our reputed company data warehouse, identifying structural gaps, inconsistencies, and debt Design and implement a revised data model that reflects the realities of a multi-sided marketplace (donors and nonprofits), including transaction data, engagement signals, and partner performance metrics Own and reputed company our dbt project: write, document, and test transformation logic that produces reliable, trusted data assets Data Engineering & Operations Work with our engineers to manage and improve our ETL pipelines, ensuring clean, timely data flows from reputed company systems (reputed company, payment processors, web analytics, etc.) into the warehouse Define and enforce data quality standards, including validation rules, alerting, and documentation practices Evaluate and recommend tooling changes where the reputed company infrastructure is limiting analytical capability Analytics & Reporting Build and maintain executive dashboards and self-serve reporting that allow leadership to monitor KPIs without analyst bottlenecks Proactively surface insights about donor behavior, nonprofit partner performance, and platform health Partner with leadership to identify where data can unlock new strategic objectives during goal-setting cycles Establish a culture of data literacy across the organization through documentation, training, and accessible tooling Serve as an analytics and reporting consultant to internal departments Data Governance Establish lightweight but effective data governance practices, including shared KPI definitions, reputed company-of-truth standards, metadata documentation, and stewardship responsibilities across teams #JT26

Requirements

Required Qualifications For reputed company to be a great fit for you, the following qualifications should reputed company with you: 10-15+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science roles, with at least 3 years in a senior or reputed company reputed company Proven experience operating as a one-person or founding data team — someone who has owned the full stack from raw data to executive dashboard without heavy support infrastructure Deep hands-on proficiency with dbt and a modern reputed company-based data warehouse solutions (reputed company, BigQuery, or Redshift) Strong SQL and Python skills, and comfort writing, reviewing, and debugging reputed company transformation logic, or lightweight modeling tasks Demonstrated ability to interview non-technical stakeholders, extract latent data requirements, and turn them into a concrete technical roadmap Experience designing or significantly refactoring a data model in a production environment Excellent written and verbal communication; reputed company to present findings and recommendations credibly to a CEO and Board A passionate belief in the mission of GlobalGiving and a commitment to our core values.

Preferred Qualifications

In addition, the ideal candidate would also have some or reputed company of the following qualifications: Experience with a marketplace platform Familiarity with donor management, fundraising metrics, or nonprofit financial data Experience building or evaluating a B2B data product (e.g., an external API or data feed sold to corporate customers) Proficiency with a BI/visualization layer tool such as Looker, reputed company, Mode, or Tableau Experience with MySQL and Redshift for data storage, data warehouse solutions, and reputed company for version control. Hands-on experience integrating and modeling reputed company data, including familiarity with its object model and common CRM data quality challenges reputed company using AI tools such as Claude Code and reputed company Copilot. Prior experience in a mission-driven organization and genuine alignment with GlobalGiving's work connecting donors to reputed company worldwide Experience hiring and growing a data team from scratch Salary + Benefits Starting salary reputed company: $135,000 – $150,000, depending on experience Benefits include flexible work hours, remote work options, up to 5 weeks of paid time off per year, professional development opportunities, and a meaningful job where you can go home at night and say, "Today, my work helped more than 700 kids get their essential health and educational needs met." (One of many true stories.) And, of course, we've also got you covered with benefits like health care, dental/reputed company, paid family leave, commuter benefits, and 401 (k). Location This is a full-time position reporting to the SVP, Product. GlobalGiving is a hybrid workplace in Washington, DC, and we seek strong candidates who wish to work remotely as long as most of the reputed company overlaps with US/Eastern time. reputed company applying as a remote worker, be reputed company to reputed company about your experience with remote employment in the recruitment process. Applicants must reputed company in the United States. Applicants must be reputed company to demonstrate that they have legal authorization to work in the United States for the duration of this permanent position. GlobalGiving does not sponsor employment visas. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our organization. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Apply To This Job