Job Title: Senior Vice President, Data Platform

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Vice President of Data Platform to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our enterprise-wide data infrastructure. As a data-first media company operating at petabyte scale, data is the connective tissue across our editorial, product, advertising, and audience development functions. This is a defining leadership role for someone who can operate at the intersection of deep technical excellence and enterprise strategy — architecting the systems that power how we understand our content, our audiences, and our business.

In-office Expectations

This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Team

People Inc. is a leading digital media company reaching millions of consumers across a diverse portfolio of iconic brands. Our content informs, entertains, and shapes culture and increasingly, data, at multi-petabyte scale, is the engine behind how we create, distribute, and monetize that content.

About The Positions Contributions

Strategy & Vision

Define and execute a multi-year data platform strategy, aligned to company-wide goals across content, audience, advertising, and product. Serve as the executive voice of data — advising the CTO and C-suite on data architecture decisions, investments, and organizational structure, influencing how the company measures success.

Platform Architecture & Engineering

Architect and oversee a petabyte-scale data platform spanning batch and real-time ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers.

Data Governance, Quality & Compliance

Establish enterprise data governance standards including ownership, lineage, cataloging, and data quality SLAs.

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing data organization including Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Analytics Engineering functions.

AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement

Drive the company's data infrastructure readiness for generative AI and ML applications.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field is required; a Master's or PhD is a plus.

Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data platform architecture, or analytics infrastructure. At least 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role.

Why Join Us?

Own and directly impact the data foundation of one of the largest digital media companies in the world — at petabyte scale, with real business impact.

Pay Range Salary

New York: $315,000.00 - $375,000.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future.