Head of Data

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes that supply the cloud data warehouse.

• Take ownership of data freshness, reliability, cost efficiency, coverage, latency, and enhancements to infrastructure.

• Create and sustain data models, tests, validations, observability, lineage, metrics, semantic layers, and documentation.

• Deliver a standardized library of versioned definitions.

• Define data contracts for internal AI and programmatic access, including MCP.

• Establish the authoritative source for business and finance data.

• Collaborate with Product Analytics, Product ML, and AI developers on strategic roadmaps.

• Supervise and evaluate the work of a two-person team, with plans to expand the function.

• Launch one significant internal AI-driven initiative each quarter.

• Integrate AI into daily operations and identify further opportunities for its application.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in building and operating production pipelines/ELT processes into a cloud data warehouse.

• Proficient in SQL and Python, with skills in orchestration and warehouse modeling.

• Practical experience in creating a trusted, self-service data layer with tests, observability, lineage, metrics or semantic layers, and documentation.

• Proven ability to define contracts between a data platform and programmatic consumers, including schemas, semantics, guarantees, and scoped access.

• Experience in deploying AI/ML to production and assessing the viability of various ideas for development.

• Background in supplying data for analytics and ML teams, as well as reconciling revenue, finance, and GTM data.

• Developed or expanded a data capability from a small base as the founding technical leader.

• Capability to articulate modeling decisions to non-technical executives in business-friendly language.

• Preferred: deeper experience with LLM/agentic frameworks, orchestration systems, evaluations, RAG; MCP servers or internal APIs; analytics engineering (dbt) and BI enablement; Salesforce and GTM systems data; and exposure to payments, fintech, or the nonprofit sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance fully covered for employees, 80% for employee plus dependents, and 70% for employee plus family.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).

• 20 vacation days, 5 sick days, 11 company holidays, plus an additional floating holiday.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Complete company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D.

• Paid parental leave (12 weeks for primary caregivers / 6 weeks for secondary caregivers).

• Generous home office stipend to support your remote workspace.

• Annual professional development stipend to foster your growth (e.g., workshops, courses, and seminars).

• Charitable giving program and paid volunteer time off with registered non-profits.