VP, Data & Insights

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is trusted by +7M developers worldwide, including teams at the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective

and operationally efficient . We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany.

Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As the VP of Data & Insights, you will be the strategic architect of Sonar’s data future, transforming data from a supporting function into a core competitive advantage. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between complex technical data engineering challenges and critical business questions, ensuring that our teams are empowered with truth and clarity.

You will move the organization beyond reactive reporting to predictive insights, challenging our current ways of working to drive speed and efficiency. By building and inspiring a world-class team of high performing Data Engineers, Analytical Engineers, and Analysts/Data Scientists, you will define how Sonar captures, processes, and leverages data—from product telemetry to CRM insights—ultimately enabling us to serve our 7M+ developer community more effectively.

What You Will Do

• Strategic Vision & Roadmap: define and drive the company-wide insights strategy, specifically identifying the types of data we need to capture, how to store and transform it into accessible data models, enabling both self-serve and in-depth exploration and modelling to drive future growth.
• Team Leadership & Design: design and build a future-proof organization of high performing team members. Establish clear view of team role competencies and performance expectations, set development plans and help team members successfully adjust to the changing and growing demands of a fast-growing company

We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits Of Working With Sonar

• 100% coverage of employee premiums through BUPA for medical, dental, and Employee Assistance Programs
• Vision benefit through Sun Life which Includes an annual vision exam and vision hardware benefits
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 days of annual leave for our employees based out of our London hub, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• Employer matching contribution pension scheme for up to 5%.
• Commuting:Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
  
  

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.