Revance Therapeutics

Executive Director, Data & AI

Revance Therapeutics • $175K — $210K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in data, analytics, and AI; 5+ years in a leadership role
  • Experience in building intelligence systems that drive revenue growth
  • Ability to translate complex data strategies into understandable narratives
  • Proven success in scaling high-performing AI/data teams
  • Experience with healthcare, life sciences, or retail industries is advantageous
  • Advanced degrees (Doctorate, Master’s, or Bachelor’s) combined with relevant experience

Responsibilities

  • Lead the execution of the enterprise intelligence strategy for Revance
  • Operationalize a self-reinforcing intelligence system for better data and models
  • Translate business goals into a measurable intelligence roadmap
  • Deliver scalable AI-powered engines to integrate directly into workflows
  • Design a cohesive data architecture connecting multiple sources
  • Build and lead an AI & Data Engineering team while ensuring strategic alignment
  • Establish a culture prioritizing outcome-driven intelligence and data governance

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO and holidays
  • Generous healthcare benefits including HSA and 401k match
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness discounts and pet insurance
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

You will own the full arc from data foundation to business reporting to actionable intelligence: ingesting data from dozens of sources, resolving entities into a connected intelligence layer, powering AI and ML models on top that drive measurable commercial outcomes across both practice-level (B2B) and consumer-level (B2C) touchpoints. You will create clarity of intelligence, ensuring every insight is trusted, explainable, and directly tied to growth.
  • Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer
  • Location: Nashville, TN or Dallas, TX or Remote


What You'll Do:
Execute the Intelligence Vision & Strategy
  • Execute the enterprise intelligence strategy as the knowledge and insight hub across the Revance portfolio
  • Design and operationalize a self-reinforcing intelligence system where better data produces better models, smarter actions, and improved outcomes
  • Translate business goals into a sequenced intelligence roadmap with measurable topline impact
  • Establish clarity of intelligence: unified data 12 unified semantics 12 trusted insights 12 automated action 12 revenue lift
Power Commercial Intelligence & Growth Engines
  • Deliver AI-powered engines that can operate at scale
  • Embed intelligence directly into commercial workflows (CRM, ordering, loyalty, digital platforms) so insights drive action at the point of decision
  • Tie intelligence output to measurable outcomes: AOV, conversion, retention, share of wallet, pipeline velocity
Architect a Scalable Intelligence Platform
  • Design a modern data architecture that connects data across many sources into a coherent, well-modeled intelligence layer
  • Own the semantic layer and metrics governance: consistent business definitions, reusable governed metrics, and decoupled business logic enabling self-service analytics and AI consumption
  • Ensure platform scalability, reliability, governance, cost efficiency, and explainability at every layer
Build & Lead the Intelligence Organization
  • Define and build the AI & Data Engineering team and establish collaboration models with other stakeholders
  • Lead and coordinate strategic vendors, ensuring all work aligns with long-term architecture, not just short-term deliverables; transition critical capabilities in-house over time
  • Establish a culture of outcome-driven intelligence - every model, metric, and pipeline must trace to business impact
  • Own data governance, quality, lineage, observability, and compliance across all data domains, including AI guardrails (bias checks, human-in-the-loop, auditability)


What You'll Bring:
Strategic & Leadership
  • 10+ years in data, analytics, and AI, with at least 5+ years leading data or AI/ML teams
  • Proven track record of building compounding intelligence systems that directly drove revenue growth, ideally in B2B, B2C, or B2B2C environments
  • Experience translating data strategy into executive narratives and cross-functional alignment; ability to make complex concepts intuitive for non-technical leaders
  • Track record of building and scaling high-performing teams (data engineering, data science, analytics) from early stage to mature function
Technical Architecture & Execution
  • Platform Leadership & Intelligence - Led modernization of the enterprise data platform to create an AI-ready environment; championed integration of ML/LLM capabilities directly into the data core
  • Unified Intelligence Architecture - Built a unified data layer that brings signals from many different source systems together into a single, trusted source of truth, creating the foundation that analytics and AI/ML models run on.
  • Operational Excellence (DataOps/MLOps) - Established disciplined DataOps and MLOps practices, with automated, well-tested pipelines that deliver data reliably and keep models monitored and maintained once they are in production.
Domain & Commercial Intelligence
  • Experience operationalizing AI enabled recommendation systems at scale with measurable commercial lift
  • Background in healthcare, life sciences, retail, or regulated industries is a strong plus
  • Understanding of loyalty ecosystems, CRM intelligence, and omnichannel personalization is a plus

Basic Qualifications:
  • Doctorate degree & 5 years of directly related experience
    • OR
  • Master's degree & 7 years of directly related experience
    • OR
  • Bachelor's degree & 9 years of directly related experience

What Revance invests in you:
  • Competitive Compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus.
  • Flexible PTO, holidays, and parental leave.
  • Generous healthcare benefits, HSA match, 401k match, employer paid life and disability insurance, pet insurance, wellness discounts and much more!

About Revance Therapeutics

Revance Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing innovative products for aesthetic and therapeutic applications. The company's lead product, DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection, is a novel botulinum toxin that has the potential to be a best-in-class product for the treatment of glabellar lines and other aesthetic and therapeutic indications. Revance Therapeutics was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Newark, California.
Learn more about Revance Therapeutics
Size
495 employees
Market Cap
$1.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282 million
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+203.9%
Revenue
$15.3 million
NASDAQ

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