Director, HR Analytics - Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We are looking for an intuitive and creative leader, who is passionate about the power of data-driven insights and compelling data storytelling, to take our highly capable HR Insights and Analytics team to the next stage of our journey. This leader will drive the integration of our analytics into key business areas and champion data as a critical driver for success.

What You Will Be Doing

• Advance and grow our HR Analytics strategy and capability, including management and delivery of data, data governance, and product ownership of analytics and survey platforms.

• Grow and support our HR Analytics and Insights team through strong leadership and guidance.

• Partner with business leaders to understand challenges and provide relevant insights, analytics, and solutions.

• Build strong connections with senior leaders, ensuring the team are trusted advisors for the use of people data to influence strategic decisions.

• Enable the delivery of advanced analyses supporting key corporate and business initiatives leading to data-driven insights.

• Crafting narratives for the organization to better understand people opportunities and challenges through data.

What You Bring

• 5+ years experience leading a HR Analytics function in a global environment.

• Demonstrated success in scaling analytic capabilities.

• Excellent relationship-building skills and equally strong people leadership skills with a love for team development.

• Excellent communication and data storytelling skills, incorporating both employee survey and general HR data to provide an integrated picture of the employee experience.

• Highly curious approach with strong problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.

• Expertise in global industry standards as well as respect for strong data governance and knowledge of standard processes.

• Deep understanding of data models and advanced analytics.

• You have a comfortable working knowledge of Workday, OneModel or Visier or similar HR Analytics platforms, ServiceNow, and Glint or other employee survey vendor.

• Youre a go-to resource for building executive-level presentations.

• Familiarity with SQL and R or Python is a plus.

• Bachelor’s, or equivalent experience, in Data Science or related field required; Master’s degree in an applicable field strongly preferred.