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SonarSource, Inc. VP, Data & Insights
Experience: 10 Years
Pattern: On-site
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degreeBachelor's (B.Sc.)
loacation Geneva, Switzerland
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Who is Sonar?Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is trusted by +7M developers worldwide, including teams at the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile. We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture.  We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.The Impact You Will Have:As the VP of Data & Insights, you will be the strategic architect of Sonar’s data future, transforming data from a supporting function into a core competitive advantage. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between complex technical data engineering challenges and critical business questions, ensuring that our teams are empowered with truth and clarity. You will move the organization beyond reactive reporting to predictive insights, challenging our current ways of working to drive speed and efficiency. By building and inspiring a world-class team of high performing Data Engineers, Analytical Engineers, and Analysts/Data Scientists, you will define how Sonar captures, processes, and leverages data—from product telemetry to CRM insights—ultimately enabling us to serve our 7M+ developer community more effectively.\nWhat You Will DoStrategic Vision & Roadmap: define and drive the company-wide insights strategy, specifically identifying the types of data we need to capture, how to store and transform it into accessible data models, enabling both self-serve and in-depth exploration and modelling to drive future growth.Team Leadership & Design: design and build a future-proof organization of high performing team members. Establish clear view of team role competencies and performance expectations, set development plans and help team members successfully adjust to the changing and growing demands of a fast-growing company Operational Excellence: Inspire, motivate, and monitor team performance, setting high standards for data accuracy, availability, collaborative problem-solving and efficient service delivery. Technical Problem Solving: Collaborate deeply with Data Engineers and Analytical Engineers to solve complex data access and integration issues, ensuring efficient pipelines from diverse sources.Prioritization: Partner with executive leadership to ruthlessly prioritize data requests, balancing urgent business analysis needs with long-term infrastructure investments. In turn, guide team members on workload balance, to ensure flexibility to respond to urgent exec requirements, short-term business needs and longer-term assignments.Tooling & Process Evolution: Assess our current data stack and processes; make bold, experience-based recommendations to modernize our tooling and adopt industry best practices to drive speed and efficiency.Change Management: Review existing ways of working with a focus on speed and impact; drive the adoption of a data-first mindset across all departments.Business Analysis: Oversee the delivery of high-value business analysis, ensuring stakeholders understand not just what happened, but why it matters and what to do next.Drive ownership: build a culture of ownership, moving from just receiving and executing on data requests, to proactively engaging on the business situation requiring the analysis, thinking through different options to find the most suitable solution and helping to land the analysis, ensuring accurate interpretation and action.The Experience You Will NeedB2B SaaS Leadership: 10+ years of experience in Data & Insights leadership roles, with a strong preference for high-growth B2B SaaS environments.Multi-Disciplinary Management: Proven experience managing and scaling diverse teams that include Data Engineers, Analytical Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists.Technical Fluency: Strong understanding of modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Looker, Tableau) and the ability to "speak the language" of engineering to solve data architecture challenges.Strategic Data Acquisition: Demonstrated success in defining data capture strategies, particularly regarding product usage (telemetry) and Go-To-Market data (CRM/Marketing Automation).Transformation Experience: A track record of entering established organizations, assessing capabilities, and successfully restructuring teams/processes to improve velocity and quality.Business Acumen: Exceptional ability to translate complex data into clear business narratives; you can debate strategy with the CRO and architecture with the CTO.Bias for Action: You are comfortable working with ambiguity and can make "deliberate" decisions quickly to keep the team moving forward.Why You Will Love it HereOur culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.Benefits of Working with Sonar100% coverage of employee premiums through BUPA for medical, dental, and Employee Assistance ProgramsVision benefit through Sun Life which Includes an annual vision exam and vision hardware benefits We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 days of annual leave for our employees based out of our London hub, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.Employer matching contribution pension scheme for up to 5%. Commuting:Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscriptionGlobal workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.\nWe Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.  

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