Founding Partnerships Lead
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time👔 Executive🇺🇸 San Francisco, USA
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Accelerationpartners·2 days ago
DIRECTOR, ANALYTICS & DATA ENGINEERING
LOCATION
This position is a remote, work-from-home role, as are all positions at Acceleration Partners (a structure central to our culture and vision to change the work/life paradigm). Some travel is required for client meetings, internal meetings, conferences, and other events.
THE ROLE
The Director, Analytics & Data Engineering is a senior leadership role that owns the vision, strategy, and outcomes of Acceleration Partners’ enterprise data and analytics capabilities. This role is responsible for defining how data is architected, governed, analyzed, and activated across the organization to support client outcomes, business decision-making, and long-term growth.
This is both an internally and externally facing role. The Director partners closely with executive leadership, Technology, Client Services, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to ensure data is leveraged as a strategic asset across AP. The role operates at a highly strategic level while remaining hands-on as needed, leading complex data and business conversations with senior stakeholders and C-level clients.
TOP 5 JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
LEAD, MANAGE, AND HOLD YOUR TEAM ACCOUNTABLE
Lead, coach, and develop the analytics and data engineering organization, ensuring clear accountability, strong performance, and ongoing talent development. Hire, onboard, and retain high-performing team members. Actively mentor leaders and build succession plans. Success is demonstrated through strong team engagement, effective collaboration, and consistently high-quality analytics delivery.
ENTERPRISE DATA STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE
Own the enterprise data strategy, roadmap, and architecture in partnership with the CTO. Ensure data systems are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and future-ready. Anticipate business and client data needs and proactively align platforms, tools, and resources to support growth and innovation.
DATA GOVERNANCE, COMPLIANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
Oversee data governance, hygiene, and management practices across the organization. Ensure appropriate security, privacy, compliance, and documentation standards are consistently applied. Proactively identify and mitigate data-related risks while enabling efficient cross-functional data usage.
DATA STORYTELLING, INSIGHTS & ENABLEMENT
Ensure data is transformed into clear, actionable insights that drive business and client outcomes. Guide teams in effective data visualization and storytelling to support decision-making and reinforce AP’s value proposition. Own analytics training and enablement strategies so teams can confidently leverage data tools and insights.
CLIENT & BUSINESS IMPACT
Partner with client teams and senior leaders to ensure analytics strategies directly support client growth, performance optimization, and enterprise initiatives. Serve as a trusted advisor in complex analytics and business strategy discussions, ensuring solutions are aligned with organizational goals and fiscal responsibility.
INTERNAL RESPONSIBILITIES
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
BY 6 MONTHS…
The Director has established credibility with executive leadership and cross-functional partners, aligned stakeholders around a clear enterprise data vision, and assessed current data architecture and governance practices. Teams are aligned, priorities are clear, and early improvements in data consistency, insight quality, and enablement are visible.
BY 1 YEAR…
AP’s data and analytics capabilities are operating at a mature, scalable level. Data governance and architecture are standardized and future-proofed, teams are delivering high-impact insights, and analytics is recognized internally and externally as a strategic differentiator for AP and its clients.
QUALITIES OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
WHY ACCELERATION PARTNERS?
Acceleration Partners is the world’s largest and first-to-market Partnership Marketing Agency creating and nurturing partnerships that drive exceptional measurable outcomes for their clients. Managing clients in 40+ countries, AP’s global team of 300+ focuses on data-driven strategies that connect brands to the right consumers through affiliate and influencer All of our work is supported by APVision, our proprietary technology suite which leverages the largest dataset of any agency in the Partnership Marketing agency ecosystem. Serving over 200 brands—including household names like Amazon, Apple, Target, Google, Marriott, Coinbase, and Burberry—AP’s diversified team is creating what’s next in the industry by building high-performing partnership marketing programs. As the only truly integrated global partnerships agency, AP prides itself on being at the cutting edge of industry developments and leveraging proven expertise to deliver unique solutions for brands seeking sustainable growth.
AP PERKS & BENEFITS – WHAT WE OFFER
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