Linktree · 3 hours ago
Head of Data
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$320K/yr - $340K/yr
12+ years expLinktree is a rapidly growing company that empowers users to curate and monetize their digital presence. They are seeking a Head of Data to lead their data organization, set strategy, and ensure teams can make data-driven decisions while advancing their AI capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive the company-wide data strategy end-to-end, from how raw data is collected until it’s used in user-facing AI features or for internal decision making
Ensure teams at Linktree have the capabilities to make sound data-driven decisions and build the platforms and frameworks to hold teams accountable to high standards in decision making
Advance Linktree’s transformation into an insights- and AI-powered product with a clear, differentiated value proposition for our users
Make critical architecture and systems design decisions, ensure that systems are scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant
Stay current with technology trends/innovations and evaluate/adopt where beneficial, particularly in rapidly evolving areas like modern AI
Contribute to major technical components, critical feature-launches, etc. and occasionally contribute to code or insights deep dives
Being involved in solution design for high-complexity or high-risk data or AI investments to maintain technical quality and help unblock teams
Lead or participate in technical deep-dives, especially for cross-team initiatives or for when the design has broad implications
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to deeply integrate the right data capabilities into teams, ensuring data and AI are core to how we build
Ensure our data & AI platforms empower the user-facing teams to build valuable product functionality at a high velocity while maintaining effectiveness and correctness
Represent Data to the executive team, surface key insights, communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and timelines in terms non-tech stakeholders understand
Collaborate on budget, resource allocation, technology investment decisions
Evangelize data science and AI practices both internally and externally through thought leadership like conference speaking
Build, grow, and mentor senior leaders, both as managers and ICs. Ensure strong leadership across your team
Recruit and retain top data talent, help define hiring strategy, interviewing, and onboarding
Ensure our teams leverage data to its full potential to make sound data-driven decisions and foster a culture of learning, decision quality, ownership, psychological safety, and accountability
Lead adoption of AI-driven tools to drive productivity and ensure we’re on the forefront of modern engineering and product building workflows
Establish best practices across the entire data lifecycle (instrumentation, data engineering, insights, experimentation, ML and AI validation) and the frameworks to hold teams accountable to these practices
Maintain effectiveness and reliability of AI and user-facing insights solutions by establishing monitoring, alerting and remediation processes
Continuously partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate and evolve the cross-functional product org structure to match the company’s growth, ensuring clarity of ownership, effective collaboration, and decision-making velocity
Qualification
Required
12+ years in data-related fields, such as data science, data engineering, ML engineering with at least 5+ years leading managers or directors in growing, fast-paced environments
Track record of designing and launching large scale user-facing data or AI driven product capabilities with measurable impact
Track record of transforming organisational culture to become data driven, including self-service insights and experimentation
Deep technical expertise in data science, ML, AI as well as relevant engineering aspects such as data and AI platforms
Proven track record of direct contributions at technical level, even as leader
Excellent leadership, mentoring, and people-management skills; ability to recruit and retain strong talent
Strong collaboration, communication, ability to simplify & explain technical issues to executives and cross-functional teams
Preferred
Experience scaling teams across multiple geographies
Prior experience in Saas / Consumer tech
Benefits
An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!
100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
Employer contribution towards your retirement.
Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.
Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.
Company
Linktree
Linktree is a software firm that provides a platform to make user's online content more discoverable and easy to manage.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (4)
2023 (2)
2022 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$167.35MKey Investors
UK Space Agency
2024-01-05Grant· $1.65M
2022-03-16Series B· $110M
2021-03-24Series B· $45M
Leadership Team
Alex Zaccaria
Co-Founder and CEO
Anthony Zaccaria
Co-Founder
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