Director, Analytics & Automation

Overview

Department: People & Culture

Reports to: Sr. Director, People Systems & Analytics

Location: North Vancouver, BC or Canada Remote

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Director, People Analytics and Automation, you will lead the evolution of data‑driven decision‑making at Arc’teryx. This is a unique opportunity to shape how analytics and automation evolve within the People & Culture (P&C) function. In this strategic and hands‑on role, you will build foundational dashboards, models, and automation solutions while shaping the long‑term roadmap and data governance strategy. You will work proactively and autonomously to identify opportunities, surface insights, and collaborate across functions to solve business problems and deliver measurable value.

Partnering closely with leaders across the business and Technology to align priorities and accelerate delivery, you will shift our focus from reactive reporting to advanced analytics, streamline key P&C processes, and elevate decision‑making. You provide coaching and leadership to the team, supporting their day‑to‑day challenges and setting them up for success in delivering high‑quality, high‑impact solutions.

This role is based in our North Vancouver office with hybrid or remote flexibility.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Global People Operations team provides Total Rewards, People Systems, and Analytics services. We play a critical role in scaling the P&C function and enabling the business. Together, we focus on building scalable foundations that help our people and our business thrive. We partner across all areas of the organization to evolve people practices and deliver solutions that support our growing global company.

Core Responsibilities

• People Analytics Strategy & Roadmap
• Co‑developing and executing a multi‑year People Analytics strategy, balancing foundational infrastructure with advanced predictive capabilities and clear business impact.
• Defining requirements and partnering with technology on the design and delivery of scalable, secure data infrastructure (e.g., People Data Lake) that enables high‑quality access to people data.
• Embedding analytics into core P&C processes to improve visibility and elevate decision‑making across the organization.
• Working proactively with cross‑functional leaders to align priorities, understand business needs, and ensure analytics solutions address the right problems.

• Automation & Innovation
• Partnering with P&C and cross‑functional leaders to identify and automate high‑value processes (e.g., compensation workflows, talent processes, reporting) to drive scalability, quality, and efficiency.
• Leading the adoption of predictive and prescriptive analytics while staying ahead of emerging trends in HR AI, automation, and data technologies.
• Strengthening data literacy across the organization to increase adoption and maximize the return on our people data.

• Data Governance & Security
• Establishing and evolving data governance frameworks in partnership with Technology to ensure data accuracy, privacy, compliance, and the responsible use of people data.
• Guiding data quality standards, analytics best practices, and stewardship processes so that insights are trusted, reliable, and actionable.
• Providing thought partnership on data architecture and data models to ensure people data flows reliably between systems and supports high‑quality analytics outputs.

• Team Leadership & Partnership
• Mentoring a team of Data Analysts, developing their skills in analytics, data science, and automation.
• Building strong relationships across Arc’teryx and Amer Sports to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and shared data strategies.
• Proactively engaging stakeholders to understand evolving priorities, inform planning, and shape analytics and automation roadmaps.

Future focus areas

• Developing and socializing a comprehensive three‑year global analytics and automation strategy that aligns with P&C and enterprise priorities.
• Partnering with executives and senior leaders to fully implement and operationalize the People Data Lake, ensuring strong adoption and business value.
• Supporting data migration, reporting transformation, and analytics integration for a major…