Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
In SaaS, analytics functions increasingly sit at the center of how product, revenue, and operations teams make decisions, and this Director, Data and Analytics role reflects that shift. The remit spans analytics engineering and the analytics data platform, pointing to a company operating at a scale where “trusted, analysis-ready” data assets and standardized metrics are necessary infrastructure rather than a nice-to-have. The emphasis on semantic layers, governance, and self-service BI aligns with modern SaaS patterns for democratizing data without fragmenting definitions.
For a long-term SaaS career, the role offers leverage across the full operating model: revenue and finance metrics, customer success visibility, product decision support, and operational reporting. Leading with an analytics-as-code approach (dbt, SQL, Git) builds durable skills that transfer across SaaS businesses adopting similar stacks, while ownership of data quality and reliability develops the discipline needed to run analytics as a production system. The scope also signals repeated practice in prioritization and stakeholder tradeoffs as demand scales.
This position suits a senior, hands-on leader who prefers to stay close to implementation while setting standards and direction. It will fit someone who enjoys cross-functional partnership and is comfortable being accountable for metric definitions, platform reliability, and the practical adoption of self-service analytics across teams.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Who is Flock?
Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.
We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.
With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.
The Opportunity
Flock is seeking a Director of Data Analytics to lead our analytics organization across Analytics Engineering and the Analytics Data Platform. This role will manage teams responsible for building trusted, analysis-ready data assets, standardized metrics, and self-service analytics that support decision-making across the entire company, including Revenue, Finance, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, and Operations.
This leader will own analytics strategy, technical standards, and delivery execution while acting as a partner to stakeholders – driving prioritization, tradeoffs, and escalation as analytics demand scales with the business. We’re looking for a deeply hands-on technical leader who can set strategy and actively contribute — building dbt models, writing SQL, reviewing PR’s, and debugging data issues alongside the team.
What You’ll Lead
You will manage teams responsible for the following, and we expect you to be hands on here:
Build and maintain core dbt data models that transform raw data into trusted analytics assets
Implement and operate semantic layers to standardize metric definitions across the company
Own data quality and reliability, including testing, monitoring, and alerting
Enable self-service analytics through governed BI tools (Sigma) and discoverable data models
Partner deeply with Revenue, Finance, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, and Ops
Operate with an analytics-as-code mindset, leveraging Redshift/Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Git.
Your role is to ensure this work scales sustainably and delivers measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Direction:
Technical & Platform Leadership:
Serve as a technical escalation point for complex modeling, performance, and metric definition challenges
Set standards for dbt modeling, semantic layers, data testing, documentation, and analytics CI/CD
Oversee the Analytics Data Platform to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Partner with Data Engineering on warehouse architecture, orchestration, and observability
Stakeholder Partnership & Prioritization
Serve as the primary analytics leader for senior stakeholders across the business, translating key business needs into actionable next steps for the team
Own prioritization of initiatives and sequencing of work
Clearly communicate tradeoffs, capacity constraints, and risks, escalating when needed
Metrics, Governance & Trust
Own core business, revenue, and financial metric definitions
Establish governance that ensures consistency without slowing delivery
Champion single sources of truth while enabling broad, safe access to data
People Leadership
Lead and grow managers and senior ICs across Analytics Engineering and the Analytics Data Platform team
Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement by leading from the front — pairing with ICs, reviewing work, and modeling high technical standards
The Skillset
8–10+ years of experience in senior roles across analytics, analytics engineering, BI Engineering, or similar roles
3+ years leading analytics teams
Deep, hands-on experience with dbt, SQL, and modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), including owning production models and resolving real-world data issues
Strong understanding of data modeling, semantic layers, and metric governance
Experience with BI solutions (Sigma experience a strong plus), delivering intuitive dashboards and reports to enable smarter, faster decisions
Proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and escalate analytics work with senior stakeholders
Collaborative, with a bias for action and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
Experience supporting multiple teams with analytics, such as Revenue, Finance, Product, Operations or Customer Success
Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at recruiting@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.
At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.
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