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Who we are. Bluehost is a leading web hosting company dedicated to helping web professionals, small businesses and entrepreneurs build a website and grow their business. We are passionate about delivering reliable technology, exceptional service, and marketing solutions that empower users to create and grow their digital footprints.  We are seeking a senior data leader to define and drive the company’s data vision and strategy at scale. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, decision science, and analytics strategy — enabling Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to leverage data for measurable business impact. This role focuses on strategic oversight, cross-functional influence, and high-impact decision-making while ensuring operational excellence across millions to billions of customer interactions. What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark. Define, own, and architect the company-wide data strategy, infrastructure, and operationalization, ensuring alignment with business objectives for retention, growth, and operational excellence. Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of high-impact data initiatives, collaborating closely with engineering, business intelligence, and analytics teams. Enable decision science at scale: predictive modeling, experimentation, churn analysis, LTV modeling, and personalization strategies. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Operations to translate business priorities into actionable data initiatives, while leaving day-to-day pipeline execution to VP-level or operational teams. Establish and enforce data governance, quality, security, and compliance policies across large-scale hosting and SMB datasets. Communicate insights, trade-offs, and strategic recommendations effectively to executive leadership. Mentor senior individual contributors and managers, helping to scale a high-performing, technically sophisticated data organization. Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed. 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, or analytics, with at least 3–5 years in technical leadership or Head of Data-level roles. Proven experience with high-volume consumer and SMB datasets — millions to billions of users, e-commerce, or hosting platforms. Strong technical foundation in data infrastructure, pipelines, cloud platforms (Azure, OCI, etc.), ETL/ELT, orchestration (Airflow, DBT), warehouses/lakes, and decision science / predictive modeling. Hands-on understanding of statistics, ML, algorithms, linear algebra, optimization, and experimentation frameworks. Ability to bridge technical execution and business strategy, influencing Product, Marketing, and Operations without managing day-to-day analytics reporting. Excellent communicator, capable of presenting technical strategies and insights to executives. Ambitious, self-driven, and hungry to define the future of data at a large-scale hosting organization. Preferred qualifications: Degrees from top-tier universities in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field Experience in hosting, SaaS, or high-volume consumer platforms. Hands-on experience with ML productization, personalization, recommendation systems, or predictive analytics for customer retention. Familiarity with infrastructure and operational telemetry data, including uptime, site reliability, and service performance. Published research in ML, AI, or statistics is a plus. Why you’ll love us. We’ve evolved; we provide three work environment scenarios. You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid or work-from-the-office environment. Work-life balance. Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well. We celebrate one another’s differences.  We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees.  We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally. We care about you. We provide excellent Health Insurance options to fit you, HSA, Medical, Dental, Vision, Matching 401K, Life/AD&D/STD/LTD, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet Insurance, Generous vacation policy, and much more! Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with #teamnewfold! #LI-SM1 #LI-Remote #Bluehost Employment with Newfold Digital is at-will and nothing in this Job Description should be interpreted or construed to alter the at-will employment relationship. This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above. Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving nearly seven million customers globally. Established in 2021 through the combination of leading web services providers Endurance Web Presence and Web.com Group, our portfolio of brands includes: BlueHost, CrazyDomains, HostGator, Network Solutions, Register.com, Web.com, and many others. We help customers of all sized build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with customers to serve their online presence needs.