Remote
US, Canada
$139K–$193K
💻Engineering
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Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world’s largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands. As of 2023, Velir acquired Brooklyn Data Company, a premier data and analytics consultancy focused on leadership, process improvement, implementation, and advanced analytics.
At Velir, we believe people are our greatest asset. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and continued improvement. We strive for excellence in everything we do, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Our success is driven by a shared passion for making a positive impact on our customers, our communities and each other. We are a remote first company that offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.
The Senior Manager of Data Strategy leads end-to-end delivery for client engagements with moderate to high technical and organizational complexity, serving as the primary client-facing engagement lead. The role requires working fluency across the modern data stack, including ingestion, warehousing, transformation, and BI/reporting, so they can lead technical discovery, articulate platform tradeoffs, and help clients and internal teams reach sound architecture decisions. They partner with technical leadership on the most complex calls, while independently owning the lower-risk ones.
The Senior Manager of Data Strategy also frames the roadmap around the client's business goals, the urgency behind them, and the impact of acting or not, so priorities are justified by outcomes and not just scope. They own delivery governance across multiple workstreams and engagements, managing cross-team dependencies and escalation paths, and are accountable for the outcome of every engagement they lead.
Strategic Vision: You are responsible for communicating the vision of our data solutions, creating buy-in for the product vision internally and with clients.
Cross-Team Collaboration: You are responsible for collaborating with other functional departments to ensure alignment with the goals of the data engagement.
Engagement Delivery: You are responsible for translating our data solutions strategy into detailed requirements for other functional teams.
Tool requirements: Intermediate proficiency across the core components of a modern data platform:
Understands how the pieces above fit together to deliver value to the client, including the ability (which may include asking functional peers for support) to weigh pros and cons from both a technical and business perspective. Senior Manager of Data Strategy are expected to deliver and articulate infrastructure recommendations aligned with a client’s business objectives.
Agile Professional: Well-equipped to tackle unforeseen situations and capable of jumping into projects and teams at any point in their development. May teach or mentor other managers on setting Agile goals, developing viable plans, and implementing Agile approaches, blending Agile with other PM frameworks as needed to ensure project delivery.
Important: Please note that compensation packages are finalized after the interview process is concluded. We use a competency-based approach to base pay, which means it is based on the competencies and skills demonstrated for this role.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are firmly committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring efforts. We recognize that we need team members from all backgrounds and experiences to successfully shape a positive employee experience as well as deliver our product and service solutions. To that end, we actively seek candidates who can bring diverse experiences and backgrounds to our team. We know that complex factors and systemic bias can get in the way of us meeting strong candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure.
At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT.
USD 150,000 - 170,000
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Pet Insurance
Disability Insurance
Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Mental Health Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
401(k) / Retirement Plan
401(k) Match
PTO / Vacation
Sick Days
Paid Holidays
Summer Fridays
Parental Leave
Conference Attendance
Learning & Development Budget
Volunteer Time Off
Employee Recognition Awards
Employee Resource Groups
Team Events & Social Budget
Some can. Velir has asked candidates for at least one remote role to be available for occasional client travel, up to 10% of the time, so check each listing for its travel expectations.
No. Velir's postings say: "At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT." Because its clients are mostly US-based organizations, Velir also looks for professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
Velir's job postings describe a competency-based approach to base pay, and its careers page says salaries and pay scales are reviewed every year. Some of its postings have included an annual compensation range, so check each listing for the pay band.
