Director Data & Analytics (AI)

Location: Hybrid, Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Salary: $154,000–$231,000 annual

Company

hirify.global is a healthcare and medical products organization with operations across manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, and enterprise technology.

What you will do

• Define and execute the enterprise vision, strategy, roadmap, operating model, funding approach, and success metrics for data products and decision intelligence.
• Lead the Data Products & Decision Intelligence Center of Excellence, including demand intake, prioritization, business cases, portfolio reporting, and value realization.
• Own the enterprise data product portfolio from ideation through deployment and retirement, scaling reusable, governed, certified data products, conformed dimensions, and semantic models.
• Establish standards for data ownership, SLAs, contracts, documentation, quality, certification, metadata, lineage, access, security, and compliance.
• Lead decision intelligence and advanced analytics use cases including demand sensing, inventory optimization, pricing, margin, cost-to-serve, quality, and supplier risk, while enabling machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions.
• Build the team and COE capability through recruiting, coaching, resource allocation, change management, data literacy, self-service enablement, partner governance, and legacy-reporting retirement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, business intelligence, analytics, or data management, including 4+ years leading data and analytics teams.
• Experience building or leading a Center of Excellence or similar enterprise capability.
• Experience owning and scaling enterprise data products or data platforms in large, complex organizations.
• Strong background managing Service Integrators or large-scale delivery partners.
• Deep understanding of data product management, including product thinking, data contracts, lifecycle management, and value measurement.
• Working knowledge of data warehouse and lakehouse architecture, medallion or layered architecture, ETL/ELT, dimensional modeling, and semantic models sufficient to evaluate technical designs.
• Understanding of decision intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI in business decision-making, plus working knowledge of Power BI or an equivalent BI and visualization platform.
• Strong business-oriented data understanding, executive, functional, and technical communication skills, and experience leading change management and adoption in large organizations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Engineering, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, and Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, ADLS, Azure Databricks, and Azure Machine Learning.
• Experience with data governance and catalog tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, or Alation.
• Experience modernizing legacy on-premise platforms to cloud data platforms.
• Domain experience in healthcare, medical products, manufacturing, distribution, or supply chain.
• Experience with data mesh, AI integration, ROI metrics, and process, organizational, or architectural constructs.
• Certifications in Azure, Microsoft Fabric, data management, product management, or change management.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Northbrook, Illinois.
• Competitive total rewards package with health insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k) contributions, and paid time off for eligible employees.
• Continuing education and training opportunities.
• Inclusive workplace focused on belonging, diversity, career growth, and access to resources for effective work.