Business Data Lead

Location: Remote – United States
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $105,000–$120,000 annually
Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Innovar Group is seeking a Business Data Lead to join a highly respected national nonprofit organization with an inspiring mission, a collaborative culture, and an outstanding benefits package. This newly created position offers the opportunity to take ownership of a major enterprise data initiative and help shape how data is defined, organized, accessed, and used across the organization.

This is an ideal opportunity for a business-focused data leader who can translate complex data concepts into language that nontechnical stakeholders can understand. You will serve as the bridge between business leaders, analytics professionals, and technology teams while building a scalable data foundation that supports consistent reporting, self-service analytics, strategic decision-making, and future artificial intelligence capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and evolution of shared business data models, standardized metrics, KPI definitions, and reusable reporting structures.

• Translate business processes and organizational needs into scalable, business-friendly data models and reporting logic.

• Establish consistent definitions, data relationships, and metric frameworks across multiple departments and functional areas.

• Identify and resolve conflicting or duplicative data definitions that affect reporting accuracy and usability.

• Partner with business stakeholders, data engineering, architecture, analytics, and product teams to align enterprise data structures.

• Develop semantic frameworks that make organizational data easier to understand, access, and use.

• Facilitate cross-functional conversations and build consensus around shared metrics, definitions, and data standards.

• Promote the adoption of trusted business data models and scalable self-service analytics.

• Manage business-facing data assets as products, including their usability, lifecycle, adoption, and continued alignment with organizational needs.

• Provide guidance and thought leadership related to semantic modeling, metric design, enterprise data standards, and analytics enablement.

• Help create a long-term data foundation that improves consistency, accessibility, reporting confidence, and AI readiness.

What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrated experience with data modeling and semantic layer design.

• Experience developing dimensional models, business-facing data structures, or enterprise reporting solutions.

• Strong experience defining and managing business metrics, KPIs, data definitions, and reporting frameworks.

• Ability to translate business requirements and operational processes into scalable data models and actionable insights.

• Experience collaborating across business, analytics, engineering, architecture, and technology teams.

• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and data concepts to nontechnical audiences.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience supporting the adoption of shared data models, metric frameworks, or enterprise reporting standards.

• Ability to balance strategic data design with hands-on operational execution.

Preferred Experience

• Semantic modeling tools, business intelligence platforms, enterprise reporting tools, or data catalog and search tools.

• Modern data architectures such as data warehouses, lakehouses, or distributed data environments.

• Enterprise data standardization or modeling initiatives.

• Data visualization and analytics user-experience best practices.

• Self-service analytics implementation and adoption.

• Product-based, Agile, or matrixed work environments.

• CRM platforms such as Salesforce.

• Data environments supporting fundraising, revenue operations, constituent engagement, or similar business functions.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This is a brand-new role with meaningful ownership and visibility across the organization. You will help develop an entirely new enterprise data process while working closely with an experienced data leader, a data analyst, and cross-functional business and engineering teams.

The organization offers an exceptional employee experience, including:

• 25 days of paid time off

• 19 paid holidays

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Flexible spending accounts

• 401(k) retirement plan with an organizational match

• Life and disability insurance

• Mental health resources, free therapy, and professional coaching

• Remote work flexibility

• A mission-driven, collaborative work environment

• A standard 40-hour workweek

Schedule and Travel

This is a fully remote position with a generally flexible work schedule. Candidates must be available for team calls at 8:30 a.m. Mountain Time Monday through Thursday and a Friday sprint review at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time.

This position has no direct reports.

About Innovar Group

Innovar Group is comprised of senior talent agents who deliver top recruitment services to clients throughout the United States. We bring a new era of recruiting to the industry by aligning state-of-the-art technology w/ outstanding talent. Visit our website at www.innovargroup.com

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.