[Hiring] Senior Director - Enterprise Data Architect @USA TODAY Co.

Role Description

USA TODAY is seeking a Sr Director - Enterprise Data Architect to lead the strategy and hands-on delivery of a next-generation Advertiser Intelligence Platform. This leader will build the trusted data and AI foundation that enables unified advertiser profiles, peer benchmarking, opportunity intelligence, predictive insights, and workflow integration across sales, customer success, and operations.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a builder who can define the strategy and also execute. The platform vision is rooted in creating trusted identity and data capabilities that power advertising, subscriptions, commerce and loyalty, personalization, experiences, and stronger monetization across a connected platform.

What you’ll do

• Define the enterprise architecture and phased roadmap for the Advertiser Intelligence Platform.
• Build the golden advertiser profile strategy and canonical data model.
• Architect AI enrichment, opportunity scoring, similarity matching, and predictive intelligence capabilities.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver MVP through scale.
• Integrate insights into CRM, BI, and business workflows.
• Establish governance for data quality, privacy, lineage, explainability, and cost control.
• Work directly with GTM and operations leaders to ensure the platform delivers measurable business results.

Qualifications

• Deep enterprise data architecture experience in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Proven success building production-grade data and intelligence platforms.
• Strong background in cloud data ecosystems, modern analytics, and AI/ML-enabled architecture.
• Ability to lead at executive altitude and execute at implementation depth.
• Strong communication, influence, and operating discipline.

Requirements

• 15+ years in enterprise data architecture, data platform engineering, analytics architecture, or closely related leadership roles, including ownership of complex cross-functional data programs.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures that unify data from multiple operational and platform systems into trusted, governed, and production-ready domain models.
• Demonstrated success building or modernizing advertiser, customer, identity, martech, adtech, subscription, or revenue intelligence platforms.
• Strong experience with cloud data platforms and large-scale analytical ecosystems, ideally including BigQuery, modern orchestration patterns, semantic modeling, and near-real-time or daily refresh pipelines.
• Practical experience designing AI/ML-enabled data products, including feature design, scoring frameworks, recommender patterns, similarity matching, vector search, or predictive analytics capabilities.
• Experience translating ambiguous business goals into phased roadmaps, MVPs, architecture standards, and shipped capabilities adopted by business users.
• Experience partnering directly with sales, customer success, operations, finance, and product leaders to convert data strategy into business impact.
• Track record leading hands-on architecture reviews, mentoring engineers and architects, and unblocking execution in delivery-critical moments.

Benefits

• The annualized base salary for this role will range between $175,000 and $180,000.
• Variable incentive compensation, including commissions, is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.
• Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, education level, location, and union representation, if applicable.