
AI Data Readiness Lead
Posted Sep 8

Posted Sep 8
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.
• Take charge of the metric registry and develop standard definitions for business metrics.
• Gather metric owners, document any disagreements, facilitate decision-making, and publish changes to metrics along with their justifications.
• Apply agreed-upon definitions within the semantic layer and data catalog.
• Phase out outdated metric versions.
• Review the reporting landscape and eliminate assets that lack an audience.
• Assign ownership for the remaining reporting assets.
• Create data quality checks and agents to ensure freshness, uniqueness, referential integrity, and cross-system reconciliation.
• Direct data-quality failures to designated owners or agents.
• Keep a record of AI agents that access company data and the definitions they depend on.
• Assess AI-agent outputs against known correct answers while monitoring accuracy, refusal, and error rates.
• Facilitate access to governed, reliable data for both individuals and AI tools.
• Operate in a governance-focused role with a strong technical foundation; defining, implementing, and validating are key responsibilities.
• Over 5 years of experience in analytics, analytics engineering, or a closely aligned field.
• Proficient in SQL, with the ability to reverse-engineer undocumented transformation logic created by others.
• Direct experience managing a semantic or metrics layer in a production environment using dbt, Cube, LookML, or similar tools.
• Proven capability to reconcile conflicting metric definitions across various functions and reach a decision.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to deprecate and eliminate work generated by others.
• Experience in evaluating LLM or AI agent outputs against established ground truth.
• Familiarity with developing or contributing to a data catalog and/or lineage tools.
• Preferred: experience with lakehouse architectures, Iceberg, Athena, Trino, or similar platforms.
• Preferred: exposure to audit readiness, SOX, or environments with financial controls.
• Preferred: experience in consumption or usage-based business models.
• Preferred: involvement in a function during its early stages, prior to established processes.
• Comfortable rapidly adopting new AI models and methods, integrating AI into workflows, and continuously exploring innovative approaches.
• Must reside in the United States.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Base salary range is reflective of work location, job-related skills, and experience.
• Integration of AI tools and experimentation into daily tasks.
• A flexible and evolving work environment as opposed to a conventional 9-to-5 schedule.
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