Sr Director, Business Intelligence

Nintendo of America Inc.

About Nintendo: Nintendo Co., Ltd., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, has created franchises that have become household names worldwide, including Mario™, Donkey Kong™, The Legend of Zelda™, Metroid™, Pokémon™, Animal Crossing™, Pikmin™ and Splatoon™, through its integrated hardware and software products. Nintendo aims to deliver unique, intuitive entertainment experiences for everyone, manufacturing and marketing video game devices such as the Nintendo Switch™ family of systems, developing and operating applications for smart devices, and collaborating with partners on a range of other entertainment initiatives like visual content and theme parks. Nintendo has sold more than 5.8 billion video games and over 850 million hardware units globally. From the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System™ more than 30 years ago, through today and into the future, Nintendo’s continuing mission is to create unique entertainment that puts smiles on the faces of people all over the world. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at https://www.nintendo.com/.

Nintendo is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, the diverse consumers we represent, and the communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy and respect for each other.

Description Of Duties

• Develop BI strategy, plans, and roadmaps that align with NOA organization objectives.
• Orchestrate strategic planning with senior leadership and BI stakeholders as needed to drive prioritization initiatives.
• Inform and align with executive leadership and other leadership groups across NOA on the shared BI roadmap and resourcing requirements.
• Manage successful execution of the BI roadmap to desired outcomes: certified datasets and data sources, enterprise level reporting, and related services.
• Oversee solution design for BI engineering activities for all components of the BI platform – including ETL, data warehouse, BI, data visualization/reporting layers.
• Build trust in Business Data by establishing and managing data catalogs and documentation.
• Ensure strong collaboration with global BI leadership, sharing and receiving BI best practices, learnings, pitfalls, etc. that improves all BI efforts across Nintendo.
• Oversee the hiring and development of all team members ensuring that individuals are thriving and striving to reach full potential
• Partners with other NOA groups to ensure proper compliance is achieved within BI governance structures (ie: IMP)
• Partners with other IT organizational groups to develop, enforce, and manage certain architectural and infrastructural standards, policies, and best practices.
• Drive day-to-day service delivery for BI platform, leading initiatives to improve long-term performance, system stability, scalability, resilience of services.
• Oversee budget planning and management processes.
• Develop BI engineering teams and product teams required to deliver on the roadmap.
  
  

Summary Of Requirements

• 12-15 years’ leadership and/or relevant experience required.
• Experience leading technical engineering and product/project management roles, particularly those heavily focused on data analytics and business intelligence.
• Technical expertise in data and analytics, including hands-on experience as an engineer.
• Must demonstrate an aptitude for modern product development practices as well as strong understanding of data analysis in consumer-focused business settings.
• Ideal candidates will have strong individual contributor experience within product development, either in engineering and/or product management.
• Experience building self-service reporting solutions using business intelligence or data visualization software (e.g. Tableau Server)
• Expertise in SQL, ETL construction, Data Warehousing solutions and database modeling in a business environment
• Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methods.
• Strong experience in data development practices using Python and dbt
• Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education or experience
  
  

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be considered. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

This position is HYBRID in Redmond, WA. Hybrid positions require regular onsite work following the schedule and guidelines for their division. This position is not open to fully remote status at this time.

This position includes a base salary range of $236,500 - $425,000 annually, potential for a semi-annual discretionary performance bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off. Please see our Benefits & Perks page for more benefits information.

Salary : $236,500 - $425,000