About the role
<p><strong>About Acquia&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Acquia is the open digital experience company that empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to build, scale, and optimize digital experiences using Drupal. Founded by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert, Acquia is a long-standing leader in the digital experience market and a premier contributor to the open-source community. As we accelerate toward a more product-led, AI-enabled future, we are establishing data as a core strategic capability to drive faster decision-making and better customer outcomes. Our mission is to provide a reliable, intelligent cloud platform that transforms complex data into clear visibility and growth, ensuring our customers' digital experiences are always secure, performant, and ahead of the curve.</p> <h3><strong>The Role</strong></h3> <p>Acquia is seeking a <strong>Director of Product for Data &amp; Intelligence</strong> to lead the centralized Data Product Team. This senior leadership role is accountable for the centralization, normalization, and strategic governance of Acquia’s enterprise data assets—encompassing both platform telemetry and business-critical data. You will move the organization beyond traditional reporting to a unified, AI-ready data ecosystem that powers market-facing AI capabilities and drives operational intelligence.</p> <h3><strong>Strategic Accountabilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Enterprise Data Strategy</strong>: Be accountable for the strategic roadmap and long-range execution of the Core Data Layer (CDL), unifying product and business data sources into a decentralized intelligence architecture.</li> <li><strong>Normalization of Data Silos</strong>: Manage the centralization of fragmented data assets into a semantic intelligence layer, ensuring data is accessible for cross-product reasoning and executive decision-making.</li> <li><strong>Strategic GTM Alignment</strong>: Partner with GTM leadership to deliver actionable insights that improve account management performance and transform platform usage into monetizable, value-based outcomes.</li> <li><strong>AI-Native Product Leadership</strong>: Drive the transition toward an AI-native PDLC, ensuring the product team is comfortable operating in a high-velocity, automated development environment.</li> <li><strong>Platform Observability &amp; Intelligence</strong>: Lead the strategy for enterprise-wide observability to reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) while establishing clear KPIs for data quality and decision impact.</li> <li><strong>Enterprise Governance &amp; Risk Management</strong>: Enforce "Safe-by-Design" protocols, including automated PII redaction and robust access controls to ensure data integrity and com