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Director Data Platform
- Province of Quebec (Canada)
- Research and Development
- Full-time
- Remote or Hybrid
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Drive Coveo towards innovation and data excellence!
As Director of Data Platform, you will play a key leadership role in defining and executing the technology vision for Coveo’s Data Platform. Our AI-powered solutions rely on a cutting-edge data acquisition, processing, and storage infrastructure to deliver intelligent, real-time experiences.
Your mission? Ensure our Data Platform remains at the forefront of technology by driving innovation, scalability, and reliability while fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration within your teams.
Here’s what makes this opportunity exciting:
Coveo is a leader in AI-driven relevance, empowering global enterprises to optimize digital experiences. Our Data Platform ingests hundreds of millions of events per day, transforms it into actionable insights, and fuels our AI-powered features.
As a director for this unit, you will shape and execute the strategy to keep our Data Platform cutting-edge while building an environment that fosters professional growth and high performance. If you’re ready to take on the challenge of driving data excellence at scale, this is your chance to make a lasting impact!
Here’s what you’ll be responsible for:
- Leading and growing multiple teams within the Data Platform unit, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance work environment.
- Defining and overseeing the technical vision and roadmap for the Data Platform in collaboration with technical leaders and product managers.
- Partnering with other directors, teams, and executive leadership to ensure alignment between people, processes, and technology.
- Driving operational excellence by optimizing the data stack for cost-efficiency, reliability, governance, and scalability.
- Overseeing the full development lifecycle of new capabilities, from planning to production, ensuring strategic alignment with Coveo’s vision.
- Managing the data needs for both Coveo’s products and internal operations, ensuring seamless data integration across the organization.
Here’s what will qualify you for the role:
- A minimum 10 years of software development experience, including leadership of high-performing teams in a SaaS environment.
- Deep expertise in data ingestion, transformation, and infrastructure, with a strong understanding of the specific data needs of ML teams.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, coupled with a proactive, solutions-driven mindset and a passion for identifying opportunities and bringing them to life.
Here’s what will make you stand out from the crowd:
- A leadership philosophy centered on building an empowered, high-performing team that delivers meaningful outcomes for the company.
- Experience managing distributed development teams across multiple time zones.
- Strong technical knowledge of modern cloud-based data acquisition and transformation technologies at massive scale.
- You can bring a well-articulated opinion and expertise on your area of expertise, and drive a strong vision and execution based on it.
Do you think you can bring this role to life?
You don’t need to check every single box—passion goes a long way, and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.
If you're passionate about leading high-performing teams, collaborating across foundational engineering units, and equipping product teams with the data capabilities they need to push our competitive edge—let’s talk!
Join the Coveolife!
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, or national or ethnic background. We know that applying for a new role takes time, and we truly appreciate your effort.
Absolutely! This is a question women and under-represented groups ask themselves more often than the rest of the population. Don't underestimate yourself, we are not looking for someone perfect but for someone who is motivated, capable and who will thrive in this position. Allow us to discover you!
Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.
If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills. Discover our values here
In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.
Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.
Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.
