GlobalGiving is a nonprofit that connects donors with community-led organizations around the world. Having accumulated rich data across its donor marketplace and nonprofit partner network, GlobalGiving seeks a senior, hands-on data leader to unlock its full potential. This is a high-impact individual contributor role reporting to the SVP, Product, with the opportunity to build a team over time.
Primary Responsibilities: Executive Partnership & Discovery — conduct structured discovery interviews with executives and functional leaders, translate business questions into a prioritized roadmap of data model changes, and serve as translator between business strategy and data architecture. Data Modeling & Architecture — audit the existing data model across Salesforce CRM and the cloud data warehouse, design and implement a revised data model reflecting a multi-sided marketplace (donors and nonprofits), and own/evolve the dbt project. Data Engineering & Operations — manage and improve ETL pipelines, define and enforce data quality standards, and evaluate tooling changes. Analytics & Reporting — build executive dashboards and self-serve reporting, surface insights on donor behavior and partner performance, and establish data literacy. Data Governance — establish lightweight but effective governance practices including shared KPI definitions and source-of-truth standards.
Required Qualifications: 10-15+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science with at least 3 years in a senior/lead capacity; experience operating as a one-person or founding data team; deep hands-on proficiency with dbt and a modern cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift); strong SQL and Python; ability to interview non-technical stakeholders and translate requirements into a technical roadmap; experience designing or refactoring production data models; excellent communication able to present to a CEO and Board; and belief in GlobalGiving's mission. Preferred: marketplace platform experience, donor management/fundraising metrics, BI tools (Looker, Metabase, Mode, Tableau), Salesforce data modeling, and AI tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
Starting salary range: $135,000 – $150,000 depending on experience, plus flexible hours, remote options, up to 5 weeks PTO, professional development, health/dental/vision, paid family leave, commuter benefits, and 401(k). This is a full-time hybrid position; remote workers must overlap with US/Eastern time and reside in the United States.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Paylocity recruiting portal: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/Details/4205595/GLOBALGIVING-FOUNDATION-INC/Head-of-Data-Analytics. Applicants must reside in the United States and have legal authorization to work in the US; GlobalGiving does not sponsor employment visas.