Director of Data Engineering, Howl
$225-250k
+ Stock options
Social commerce platform
Be an early applicant
Social commerce platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-250k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reduce barriers for creators and brands to build social commerce businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing and building data engineering pipelines, cloud solutions, ETLs, databases, visualizations and analytical platforms
- Experience leading, hiring and growing a team of data engineers, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts that own mission critical product and business systems
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, embedded analytics, business intelligence and cloud data infrastructure
- High level of proficiency with SQL, Python and related libraries / frameworks
- Ability to build high quality complex solutions and work collaboratively with cross functional teams in a fully remote work environment
- Strong oral and written communication skills, capable of both hands-on technical work and guiding teams through influence and strategic direction, including engaging with C-level stakeholders
What the job involves
- Howl is seeking a Director of Data Engineering and Analytics to lead and scale our data team, infrastructure and engineering efforts
- You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive data strategy, ensure data quality, optimize platform performance and manage operational costs
- As an engineering leader you'll have a direct impact on the customer experience for creators, brands and internal users
- Provide thought-leadership, deliver solutions to strategic problems and support the product roadmap
- Manage a data engineering, business intelligence, and business analyst team
- Design and maintain scalable, reliable data architectures including data lakes, warehouses and pipelines
- Ensure clean, accurate, and timely data availability to support product features, embedded analytics, organizational decision-making and analytics
- Design and implement data pipelines and transformation workflows that are optimized for flexibility and data quality, leveraging best-in-class tools for transformation, observability, and testing
Our take
Advertising products via influencers has become a trillion-dollar industry. With the rise of social media, the push to mobile platforms, and the turn away from brick-and-mortar retailers, it’s now a crucial tool that both major and breakout brands leverage to great effect. Howl, an influencer marketing marketplace, may have appeared at exactly the right time and has the chance to win big from this development.
The Howl platform functions something like an Upwork for brands and influencers. Brands can list partnership opportunities on an open marketplace, whilst influencers will receive personalized recommendations, and have access to a dashboard where they can monitor sales and access easy and instant payment.
Formerly known as Narrativ, Howl benefits from a firmly established client base that includes major enterprise brands like HP, Sephora, and Samsung. With a firm foundation already laid down in this remarkably lucrative new sector, and fresh funding at its back, the company has a real chance to capture the market and find further success in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$27m
SERIES A
Aug 2019
$8m
SEED
Total funding: $39.1m
Company benefits
- Pay equity-focused compensation structure
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 80% coverage for dependents; with FSA and HSA compatibility
- 100% coverage of Teledoc services & One Medical memberships for employees and dependents
- Flexible PTO and 20 days paid Holidays
- WFH stipend
- Retirement planning - 401k through Empower
- Talkspace membership
- Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for all new parents
Company values
- Integrity
- Excellence
- Exploration
- Service
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Li Haslett Chen
(Founder & CEO)Previously a McKinsey Analyst who then moved into Marketing and Business with Moda Operandi. They have also spent time on the Board of American Express and Warner Bros.
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