Director, Business Intelligence

Funko Overview

Welcome to the Funko-verse, a world built on pure imagination, a land governed by the philosophy that stories matter, a universe comprised of characters from countless fandoms, a galaxy of once upon a times and happily ever afters.

Funko is a purveyor of pop culture and licensed-focused collectibles company. Funko currently holds thousands of lenses and the rights to create tens of thousands of characters – one of the largest portfolios in the pop culture and collectibles industry. Funko’s Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible on the market, selling millions of figures to fans around the world.

This Global role is responsible for creating, delivering, and operating the Analytics domain / suite of applications / modules to meet the need of Funko’s business strategy.

You will manage internal and external technology teams for Funko’s BI & Analytics landscape, from a technical and business process perspective.

The successful candidate will direct and deliver an Enterprise-wide analytics strategy, build, and own the analytics and data visualization tools, complex dashboards, mobile, methods of increasing user adoption and proactively drive the adoption of AI/ML tools to increase supercharge our capability and free up customer bandwidth.

• Own the roadmap for Business Intelligence, tracking items to completion while communicating status to stakeholders
• Strategic ownership and thought partner of the way forward for Funko BI and data strategy
• Leverage modern AI/ML technologies—including generative AI, predictive analytics, and automation frameworks—to identify new business opportunities, optimize decision-making, and accelerate Funko’s enterprise data strategy.
• Responsible for initiating and directing projects as required to support business segments within Funko globally
• Set the objectives and goals of the domain with relevant metrics to drive a high performing team.
• Engage business stakeholders across the company to gain a strong understanding of reporting and analytics needs
• Responsible to develop and review the development & integration standards that align with Funko IT policies
• Responsible for preparing & tracking budgets and related financial documents; is responsible for managing financial accounting on new projects to be undertaken
• Align contracts with vendors and partners to ensure Funko and its customers data meets our policy guidance
• Ensure all applications have a technical recovery plan in place, are highly available where necessary and have documented procedures to support business continuity in a disaster recovery situation
• Provide management, coaching and mentoring to create an environment which encourages accountability and strong staff development; manage the hiring, training, motivation, and retention of top talent
• Drive projects to successful completion by delivering on promised scope / functionality, resolving issues and conflicts with business / IT / Vendor partners, hitting deadlines with quality deliverables
• Responsible for managing relationships with our application vendors. Held accountable for hitting metrics associated with vendor performance
• Ensure the operational performance, scalability, and reliability of application services

• 10 years' experience with Business Intelligence / Analytical architecture, frameworks, tools, and development life cycles with increasing levels of supervisory and leadership responsibilities
• 5 years’ experience as a people manager both directly and indirectly
• Strong analytical, mathematical, logical thinking and drive POCs to prove the value of the POC to the organization
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with and effectively communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to engage and manage through influence across a large international organization, preferably in retail space
• Excellent project management (Agile) and time management skills
• Will have demonstrable experience of building and growing technology organizations with a focus on the development of…