Director of Data

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Director of Data & Analytics who will be responsible for all aspects of data management, analysis, and strategic insights at iLending. The Director of Data Analytics will play a critical role in driving the company's growth by leveraging data assets and analytics capabilities to unlock business opportunities, enhance operational efficiency, and support decision-making across all functional areas.

At iLending, we believe that success starts with a strong foundation of values. Our team is built on dependability, empowering one another to achieve greatness, and fostering transparency in everything we do. We're passionate about creating a people-focused culture where everyone feels valued, supported, and inspired to contribute their best!

LOCATION: The position is on-site in the Englewood Office. To be considered for this position, you must be local to the Denver Area, or moving to the Denver Area. Relocation assistance is not provided.

***iLending is unable to provide VISA or OPT sponsorship, now or in the future***

What you'll do:

• Perform thorough analyses to uncover actionable insights or strategic opportunities related to business growth, operational efficiency, and cost/ resource optimization.
• The Director of Data Analytics will provide hands-on consultancy, collaboration, and support to all department heads and project teams in designing, staffing, and delivering analytics data and financial reporting and the continued refinement of the budget/forecast process.
• Manage and optimize the data infrastructure and technology stack, including data storage, ETL processes, data modeling, and data visualization tools.
• Utilizing Tableau, Excel, and SQL to continue development of a full suite of operational reports from multiple systems.
• Establish and maintain robust data governance processes, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security across all systems and platforms.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, finance, operations, and technology, to identify business needs and develop data-driven solutions. Establish strong relationship across all business lines.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data management, analytics, and financial technology, and recommend innovative approaches to enhance data-driven decision-making.
• Foster a data-driven culture within the organization, promoting data literacy, encouraging data-driven thinking, and driving data-driven decision-making at all levels.
• Enable data-informed decision-making across the entire company through the development and deployment of dashboards / standardized KPIs / operational metrics/training/ awareness.
• Provide a high level of responsiveness in developing new reporting to address needs or questions from the executive team.

What you bring to the table:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of deep data analytics experience.
• Expert level experience in Data warehousing.
• Expert level SQL knowledge.
• Hands-on experience building reporting solutions in Power BI.
• Azure, Microsoft Fabric experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience in developing ML Models, Predictive Analytics, and utilizing LLMs, SLMs.
• Demonstrated experience in generating historical, current and future trends of sales, marketing and customer data.
• Experience in consumer lending (auto loans, mortgage, personal loans etc.).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with running analytics for the sales organization.
• Bachelor's degree from a 4-year accredited college or university; Finance, or other analytical/technical majors strongly preferred.
• Experience fostering solid relationships across multiple departments.
• Ability to collaborate with senior executives.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires the ability to operate a personal computer, office suites, multi-line phone, calculator and other basic office equipment.
• Requires the ability to concentrate and consistently produce accurate work.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is frequently required to sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• The Team Member is occasionally required to stand and walk and walk upstairs.
• The Team Member is occasionally required to stand for long periods of time, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The Team Member must be able to occasionally lift and or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The Work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those a Team Member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level is moderate to loud at times and with obscene language from time to time
• The physical exertion is moderate between work and our fun activities
• Work is performed in an office setting, casual dress code
• There are frequent team member and customer contacts and interactions

SALARY & BENEFITS:

• Base Annual salary of $130,000 - $150,000
• Full-time positions are benefits-eligible the first month after 30 days of employment, which includes:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401(k) match, Health Savings Account(HSA), Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance, Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Employer Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, Wellness Program, Financial Wellness Program, Tuition Reimbursement Program

ABOUT US:
Founded in 2006, iLending is a national leader in automotive refinancing. Through strategic partnerships with credit unions, banks, and other financial institutions, the company offers competitive interest rates on auto loans and peace of mind products to tens of thousands of consumers each year.

iLending reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. All job descriptions inherently reflect the expectation of performing other duties as assigned when the situation calls for it. This position description does not circumvent the ‘At-Will” relationship or constitute a written or implied contract of employment.