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Director, Business Analytics

Barracuda Networks Inc

Karnataka, India (On-site)

Director, Business Analytics

3 Weeks ago • 13-15 Years • Data Analyst

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Job Description

Barracuda Networks seeks a Director, Business Analytics to lead a new team in Bangalore, India. This role involves building a data-driven insights team to support corporate and functional leadership. Responsibilities include driving revenue growth, improving subscription renewals, reducing churn, and enhancing profit margins through data analysis. The Director will collaborate with executives across Finance, Sales, Product, and Data Engineering, presenting insights to senior management and influencing strategic decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills, with experience in managing and developing analytics teams. Experience with various analytics tools, data visualization, and programming languages is required.

Must have:

Lead & grow global analytics organization
Extract, analyze data & deliver insights
Build analytics scalability across Barracuda
Improve stakeholder engagement
Lead by example in data analysis
Experience with analytics tools & methods
Proficiency in Advanced Excel, SQL, Python, R
Cross-functional project leadership
Team management & development
Effective communication & presentation skills

Good to have:

Gen AI tools experience
Experience with Databricks, PowerBI, Salesforce
Data visualization tools (Tableau, R Shiny etc.)
B2B SaaS subscription business model experience

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Req ID: 25-392

Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.

We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an employer that complies with all applicable national, state, and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Envision yourself at Barracuda

We are seeking an experienced and strategic analytics leader to join our global capability center at Bangalore, India as Director, Business Analytics. In this critical global leadership role, you will be responsible for building and leading a brand-new team of proactive data-driven insight partners for corporate and functional leadership at Barracuda. As part of your charter, you will use strong business acumen and analytics expertise to drive insight generation that will support revenue and user growth through improved subscription renewals and new account activation, churn reduction, profit margin improvements and product lifecycle management initiatives for Barracuda. The contributions of your team, and you as a leader, will have a big positive impact on the company’s progress as it rapidly evolves its business model and product portfolio as a top global player in the rapidly growing cybersecurity industry.

As a thought leader and business partner, you will work closely with executive leaders globally from Finance, Sales, Product and Data Engineering. You will connect the dots by analyzing data across the enterprise to answer critical business questions and proactively identify insights that drive business impact and growth opportunities.

As a people leader, you will coach and inspire a team of talented analytics individual contributors to work innovatively and collaboratively together to help senior decision-makers at Barracuda understand business and product performance, ROI on investments, identify opportunities for growth and help connect learnings across functions for strategic planning.

What you will be working on:

• Lead and grow Bangalore-based global analytics and data science organization as a proactive, insights-generating growth engine and trusted partner for Barracuda.

• Use innovative and efficient ways to extract and analyze relevant data and metrics from across the organization, and deliver insights that enable decision making, enhance customer experience, and drive better business outcomes.

• Build scalability of analytics impact across Barracuda: Increase employee engagement with talent development, team building, and servant leadership.

• Improve stakeholder engagement through shared goals, deep collaboration (a seat at the table), and a cross-functional, global consultative support model.

• Lead by example by going deep into the data and troubleshooting issues with analysis, rolling up sleeves as and when required on projects, and focus team’s output on practical solutions.

• Be key voice and influencer as part of broader Data & Analytics leadership community at Barracuda – help drive innovation and adoption of data & insights tool and contribute to data governance initiatives.

What you bring to the role:

· Bachelors’ degree in a technical field with 15+ years of relevant work experience (or relevant Masters’ degree/MBA with 13+ years’ experience), out of which 7-10 years are in a managerial role.

· Experience with analytics tools and methods (e.g., using BI tools and coding techniques to extract insights, experimentation frameworks like A/B testing, attribution models, measuring incrementality of business actions, statistical approaches for segmentation, classification, and prediction etc.). Prior experience with Gen AI tools will also be desirable.

· Proficiency with Advanced Excel is important. Knowledge of SQL, Apache Spark, Python, R (multiple preferred) is required to query, transform/compute and analyze the data.

· Additionally, track record in leading cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives in the analytics space, and delegating tasks and managing delivery across team is important.

· Prior experience in hiring, coaching, and developing individual contributors is necessary for this role.

· Ability to effectively influence, communicate and present cross-functionally with all levels of management internally and externally. Concise and engaging storytelling skills with Data visualization (Charts/Graphs) and PowerPoint.

· Expertise in proactively identifying broad business or product issues/opportunities and translating them into tactical projects and tasks that align with stakeholder priorities.

· Ability to speak with confidence and credibility to senior executives about the business value of analytics without being too technical, with data scientists and other analysts globally about analytics methodologies to answer questions, and with the Data Engineering/IT side of the organization about data access & integration.

· Strategic with proven demonstration of depth and breadth on multiple topics of interest in the business. The execution should be agile & efficient.

· Experience working in global multinational organizations is desirable. Prior exposure to B2B Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription-based business model is a plus. Developing awareness and understanding of the Barracuda business strategy and wider industry landscape is expected as part of working in this role.

· Prior experience with Databricks, PowerBI and Salesforce will be desirable but not mandatory. Experience with data visualization applications such as Tableau, R Shiny, Alteryx or QlikView etc. is also relevant.

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