Director, Data Strategy

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building. Bounteous is looking for an experienced Director to join the Modern Business Platforms (MBP) practice. This role acts as a trusted client partner and leads teams to drive results for clients through effective use of data to activate marketing use cases. This role involves embracing and evangelizing new marketing, data, and analytics technologies in addition to leading initiatives to improve the competency of the Martech platforms practice, generating ideas and processes to deliver successful project solutions, maintaining a focus on learning and professional growth, leading strategic cross-competency accounts, and providing partnership to client service and business development teams to expand account opportunities. The Director of Data Strategy will be responsible for the strategic development of digital marketing data ecosy [... source excerpt omitted ...] accomplishing data-driven analysis and activation through solution architectures integrating measurement, modeling, and martech / adtech to meet client business objectives. Within client programs, this role will create and oversee comprehensive data programs to enable complex digital strategies. This role will be highly cross-functional and interface with Data & Analytics, Marketing, Experience Design, and Technology teams. This role will develop practice-wide data perspectives, help build the Data Strategy team, and advance the capacity of consultants across the MBP practice in project execution. As a leader in digital data and analytics, this role will also be involved in pi [... source excerpt omitted ...] ivacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information Role and Responsibilities: Leads cross-functional engagements, and ensures cohesive delivery across competencies. Uncovers use cases and data initiatives in alignment with marketing business objectives. Conducts data strategy programming, including assessing data signals, KPI setting, ecosystem and readiness assessments, co-innovation studio sessions, roadmapping deliverables, and value creation cycles. Assesses client data maturity, understands stakeholder needs, facilitates prioritization, and coordinates a str