Vice President of Data

About the role

ButterflyMX is seeking a world‑class Vice President of Data to drive a company‑wide data transformation and make data a core operating advantage. Reporting directly to the CTO, the VP will shape the enterprise data strategy, govern the data layer and ensure trusted, actionable insights across all functions.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise data strategy, prioritising work based on commercial impact and decision value.
• Establish Snowflake and a governed data layer as the authoritative source of truth, creating golden records for all key business entities.
• Partner with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product and Operations to build analytical systems that surface leading indicators, causal relationships and emerging risks.
• Implement a company‑wide metric governance framework and treat data products with the same rigor as software products.
• Build and lead a high‑performing data organization, starting with four direct reports and expanding across the business.
• Stay technically engaged by reviewing code, inspecting models, prototyping solutions and solving complex data problems personally.

Required profile

• Visionary leader who can translate a world‑class data organization vision into executable systems, products and organisational changes.
• Commercially fluent with deep understanding of SaaS economics (ARR, churn, margin, unit economics) and ability to link data investments to revenue and cost outcomes.
• Technically credible in modern data architecture, engineering, analytics engineering, governance and quality, and capable of writing code and debugging pipelines.
• Operationally grounded with experience building or transforming data functions at companies of comparable scale and growth dynamics.

Required skills

• Snowflake
• Fivetran
• dbt
• Sigma
• Modern AI platforms
• Data modeling and pipeline development