Director, Data & Insights

Two Circles • New York, NY

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About The Position

We are Two Circles, a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business focused on growing audiences and revenues by understanding fans deeply. We partner with clients to help them understand and influence fan behavior across spending, event attendance, channel response, and content consumption. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including major sports leagues and brands. With over 1000 employees across 15 offices, we deliver expertise in marketing and consulting to sports rights holders, building relationships with audiences, partners, and sponsors to drive business growth. We leverage data to enhance fan understanding, and implement data-led digital marketing and technology solutions to improve fan experience, increase revenues, and build commercial efficiency. By deeply understanding fans, we bridge the gap between sports organizations and their customers.

Requirements

• Proven experience (5+ years) owning enterprise-scale data infrastructure (e.g., AWS Redshift, dbt) and data modeling for real-time activation use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a senior executive client relationship independently, including roadmap conversations, KPI definition, and QBRs.
• Experience leading a sizeable cross-functional team across multiple offices and time zones.
• Experience with structured consulting or project delivery within data governance and CI/CD constraints.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modeling and cloud data warehouses.
• Strong ability to connect data and technology decisions to commercial outcomes, translating complex analysis into insights that shape client strategy.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sports, media, entertainment, or consumer-focused industries.
• Familiarity with Adobe platforms (e.g., AEP, CJA, AJO, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target) or comparable BI tools (e.g., Tableau).
• Experience with experimentation frameworks, attribution, and advanced analytics techniques.

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing evolution of enterprise-scale data infrastructure (e.g., AWS Redshift, dbt), ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Set standards for data pipeline development, testing, and documentation across the team.
• Partner with engineering to ensure architecture decisions align with downstream activation, reporting, and analytics needs.
• Connect the dots between data, technology, and commercial value, translating technical capability into strategies that drive client growth.
• Derive clear, actionable insights from complex, cross-channel data to inform client strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Distill complex analysis into recommendations that balance business impact with delivery feasibility.
• Partner with clients and internal teams to shape data-driven growth strategies, not just technical solutions.
• Independently manage senior executive client relationship, serving as the primary strategic point of contact.
• Run roadmap conversations, define and track KPIs, and lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with minimal oversight.
• Translate business and technical challenges into clear recommendations and delivery plans.
• Lead a cross-functional team spanning multiple offices and time zones.
• Set team structure, priorities, and performance standards; mentor and develop direct reports and their teams.

Benefits

• The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Two Circles in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed