Data Program Manager

Position 

LendingTree is seeking a Data Program Manager for our Enterprise Data Management Organization. This person will ensure that our Data program is in line with the organizational data strategy, roadmap, and financials.

Our high-caliber team delivers leading-edge technology and drives innovation to solve complex business challenges using data. In this role, we are seeking a strong agilest who pushes for and excels in a fast-paced, yet disciplined data delivery environment.

If you are passionate about Data, can deliver with finesse and possess an exceptional ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across business verticals and technical teams, then you may be who we want.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own responsibility for all aspects of the Data Program
• Ensure that the program and each team’s charter is in line with the organizational data strategy and roadmap for the future
• Provide project management to deliver the Data program to plan and budget
• Manage program risks and drive mitigations
• Build materials and facilitate program level communication at all levels including, the executive team on goals and accomplishments
• Provide timely communications on significant issues and developments
• Lead financial governance routines to manage program forecast and spend to budget
• Oversee/guide the prioritization and refinement of the Data organization product backlog, with business and technical teams to define requirements, estimate features, program roadmap and budget.
• Foster cross functional team collaboration through process and Agile best practices
• Advise/Facilitate training and development of teams and people on Agile
• Lead discussions to drive out internal dependencies between teams
• Facilitate cross team PI events and collaboration activities
• Interface with Analytics, Engineering, and other internal teams to achieve deliverables
• Drive simplification and continuous improvement in practices and processes
• Lead the analysis of complex team dynamics, root cause and work with delivery leaders to drive necessary corrective actions
• Provide strategies and Agile best practices to drive speed, and operational efficiencies that reduce costs and enhance productivity
• Coach teams on Agile based new and existing solution development in the context of Data systems
• Champion an inclusive and diverse global mindset to attract a diverse talent pool to LendingTree which includes effective coaching and development.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of experience as Coach and Program delivery using Agile best practices, in Data and Digital organizations.
• Ability to impact and influence through leadership and consensus-building, across various stakeholders
• Proficiency at influencing change to product development processes
• Proficiency in performing program financial analysis and forecasting, including earned value, team and business impacting metrics
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly the ability to synthesize complex issues/scenarios into easy-to-understand concepts for various non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise in developing presentations that succinctly deliver the message to C-level executives
• Familiarity with modern data platforms e.g. DBT, Fivetran, Snowflake and Airflow
• Familiarity with Cloud Data and ML tools such as AWS Sagemaker, DataRobot
• Familiarity with SQL, analytical and relational data models
• Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous situations and across organizational boundaries with audiences of all levels
• Self-starter with a drive for results
• B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related fields

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know: 

• We’re a publicly traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.  
• We still make funny commercials.

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). 

Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.