Data & Insights Director

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people, based out of 15 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Our Marketing and Consulting expertise help sports rights holders, build relationships with their audiences, partners and sponsors to drive business growth. We do it by using data to help our clients better understand their fans. We then create and implement data-led digital marketing and technology solutions that improve fan experience, grow revenues and build commercial efficiency. By knowing fans best, we break down the traditional barriers between sports organizations and their customers. 

Role Overview 

The Director, Data & Insights will own the intersection of data platform architecture, strategic insight, and consulting delivery connecting data and technology to commercial value, and turning complex data into strategies that help clients grow. This role requires deep technical fluency across enterprise data infrastructure (AWS Redshift, dbt). 

You will independently manage senior executive client relationships leading roadmap conversations, defining KPIs, while delivering structured consulting engagements within data governance and CI/CD constraints. 

You will lead a sizeable cross-functional team, and drive change management and alignment across stakeholder groups spanning data governance, analytics, and marketing. 

The ideal candidate  should be excellent at distilling complex data into clear and actionable insights that balance impact to underlying business performance goals and feasibility. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

Data Platform Architecture & Data Modeling 

• Own the ongoing evolution of enterprise-scale data infrastructure (e.g., AWS Redshift, dbt), ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. 

• Set standards for data pipeline development, testing, and documentation across the team. 

• Partner with engineering to ensure architecture decisions align with downstream activation, reporting, and analytics needs.