Director Data & Analytics

Position Title: Director Data & Analytics (M4)

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.
ABOUT THE ROLE

The Data & Analytics Director will lead the Enterprise data strategy and execution to enable trusted, accessible, and scalable data products, advanced analytics, and AI/ML capabilities that drive business outcomes. 

This leader will collaborate closely with Product, platforms, and business teams, helping to ensure alignment with Crown’s data strategy and deliver incremental value along the way. They will be hands-on in enabling access, breaking down silos, and advancing use cases that deliver next-gen data monetization.

The ideal candidate is experienced in AI/ML enablement, applying advanced analytics, leading and scaling end-to-end data teams, and governance with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and translate strategy into practical, outcome-driven execution.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Build and execute the Data Strategy & Governance

• Define enterprise data strategy and execute a roadmap of high-impact data and analytics initiatives informed by business priorities.
• Establish data governance, classification, and quality standards.
• Ensure data is trusted and secured.

Data Platform & Pipeline

• Build a scalable data platform of consolidated enterprise data from disparate systems into a unified, governed, and sustainable model.
• Define and enforce data architecture, modeling, and integration standards.

Data Products & Self-service

• Lead Development of curated, business-aligned data products.
• Enable governed self-service analytics (e.g., Semantic layer, Power BI, etc.)
• Define and track ownership, SLAs, life-cycle management, and usage metrics for each data product.

Advanced Analytics & AI/ML Readiness

• Deliver advanced analytics use cases to unlock business critical insights and opportunities.
• Lead and scale AI/ML development and deployment in partnership with Product and Engineering.

Advisory & Evangelism

• Act as a trusted advisor to business units, helping them understand how to leverage self-service capabilities, data, and analytics in ways that deliver measurable outcomes.

Team leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing team across data engineering, analytics, data products, and data science/AI defining clear roles, accountability, and ways of working.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Master’s degree and/or MBA preferred.

Experience & Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in data, advanced analytics, and engineering leadership.
• Experience building modern data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks) and tools supporting data lakes and advanced analytics and AI.
• Experience delivering data products vs reporting and ability to translate business needs into data/AI solutions.
• Strong ability to partner across functions, influence governance decisions, and drive execution against strategy.
• Experience leading and scaling a cross-functional team across data science, engineering, analytics, and governance professionals.
• Strong understanding of data governance, modeling, and architecture.
• Prior telecommunications and infrastructure industry experience preferred.

Where You Will Work
This role falls into our hybrid work model, which is 1-day work from home (typically Friday but may vary depending on the position) and 4-days in the office to optimize collaboration, relationship building and key stakeholder engagement, and may require some travel as needed.

Organizational Relationship

Reports to: VP, Digital & Data

Title(s)/Number of direct reports (if applicable): Senior Managers (Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Governance, Data Science, and Data Product Management) 

YOUR COMPANY BENEFITS
At Crown Castle, we do our best to ensure you have access to the resources you need to live a healthy and happy life no matter where you are in life. Our benefits are built around your individual needs, covering physical, mental, and financial health and designed to enhance your quality of life.

We are proud to offer a full suite of health and wealth benefits for you and your loved ones. Below are a few of the key highlights of the many benefits we provide.

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
• Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
• New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
• Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
• Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
• Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
• 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.
• All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

Compensation
The salary range offered for this position is $173860 - $239057 annually. A candidate's offer is determined by various factors including but not limited to, depth of experience, role-related knowledge and skills, relevant education or training, internal alignment, and work location. Depending on the position offered, the compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual cash bonus or commissions, and equity incentives.
Additional Information
If you are interested in joining our team, please visit the Crown Castle careers site to apply. We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other third-party suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us. This position will remain posted until filled.