Director, Consumer Data Platform & Analytics Enablement

Company Description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Job Description

The Consumer Data Platform & Analytics Enablement Director is a new position within Sandisk’s Global Consumer Intelligence & Analytics (“CIA”) function.  The mission of CIA is to enable our “Consumer at the Center” strategy, by driving consumer centricity into decision-making that drives company growth.  This role will be the leading voice for the Consumer data domain and will manage the Consumer domain within our corporate Lakehouse architecture.  Ultimately, this role will deliver a Power BI-first and fully agentic AI-enabled ecosystem to enable self-serve business data and reporting at scale.  This role is expected to deliver meaningful, production-ready Consumer data products and KPIs on a regular cadence, while legacy reporting is maintained in parallel during transition.

We are seeking a strategic, results-oriented leader with a strong bias for action and a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.  Our ideal candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity, and adept at working with complex marketplace data (scanner, media response) and internally-generated data (shipments, financial reporting).  You must possess strong leadership qualities, drive continuous improvement, establish best practices, and build strong partnerships across the organization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with the corporate Enterprise Data & AI and Consumer Data Teams to own the Consumer division’s curated (“silver” and “gold”) data layers, including harmonization of external market data with corporate sources, in alignment with enterprise lakehouse and governance standards,
• Drive data “AI-readiness” to help future-proof the data ecosystem, inclusive of metadata curation and documentation of business logic,
• Develop and operate the Consumer BI ecosystem on the corporate lakehouse platform (e.g., PowerBI, Databricks), enabling scalable self-service by analysts and business users,
• Enable integration of AI into business reporting and underlying analysis, in order to build early warning systems and to identify underlying business trends worthy of future study, and
• Partner with Consumer division leadership to ensure downstream analysis applications and BI stack are delivering reliable, efficient, and valuable service.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• 10+ years relevant experience (consumer tech, consumer electronics, or CPG industries preferred),
• Demonstrated history of business impact through data ecosystem development, data engineering, or Development/Operations (DevOps) organization leadership,
• Data modeling & harmonization experience, including with vendors with varying product/timing hierarchies,
• Ability to deliver strong data transformation results inside corporate guardrails (e.g., security and access, governance, intake, and prioritization), and
• Experience designing AI-ready data platforms, including semantic modeling, metadata management, and governed self-service analytics.
• Direct AI implementation experience is a plus but not required for the role.

SKILLS:

• Strong aptitude for data model creation, ideally to include experience in data engineering, analytic application development, and data ecosystem development and operations,
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills at executive levels, with the ability to interpret and summarize data to aid management in achieving strategic and operational goals,
• Team leadership experience, especially management of multiple IT disciplines (Engineering, DevOps),
• Confidence and presence collaborating with and presenting to executive staff,
• Ability to effectively manage projects; results-oriented and able to roll-up sleeves to deliver critical tasks,
• A self-starter comfortable in a project-oriented, high-growth environment.
• While this role is not expected to write significant amounts of code, the right candidate will be able to read, critique, and improve data models and specific transformations.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/15/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.