Head of Data & AI, Burq
+ stock options and performance-based bonuses
AI-powered last-mile delivery
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AI-powered last-mile delivery
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ stock options and performance-based bonuses
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make offering delivery simple, flexible, and turnkey for enterprises.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in data/ML, including 2+ years in a leadership or staff-level role owning a data or ML platform
- Player-coach — you lead a team and still go deep in the technical work: architecture, modeling, and code review
- Strong on both halves of the role:
- Data platform — modern data warehouse design (e.g., Snowflake/BigQuery), streaming + batch ingestion, dbt or equivalent, performance and cost optimization, governance
- Machine learning — you've built and shipped production models (forecasting, optimization, ranking/matching, or prediction) with real business impact, plus the ML systems around them (feature pipelines, serving, monitoring/MLOps)
- Experience building data and ML products, not just pipelines — you understand how data and models serve product and business goals
- Familiarity with modern AI/LLM and agentic data work is a strong plus
- Strong stakeholder management — you can say no to an ad hoc request with a good reason and a better alternative
- Experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up where the platform was built, not inherited
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Head of Data & AI to build the intelligence that powers Burq
- You'll build a world-class data-and-ML platform: the systems that turn data into models which make every delivery decision smarter and agents that automate the work the industry still does by hand
- You'll set the strategy, make the hard architecture and modeling calls, ship models into production that move the business, and build the team to do it at scale
- This is a player-coach role
- You'll lead and grow the data and ML team while staying deeply hands-on — making architecture calls, reviewing engineering and modeling work, and ensuring the platform serves both product and business goals
- You'll partner closely with the Head of Engineering, and with product and AI leadership on how intelligence shows up in the product
- Own the full data platform — the warehouse, streaming and batch ingestion, the semantic layer, and BI infrastructure
- Define and enforce data governance — access management, quality standards, and a well-modeled, trustworthy "gold" layer
- Make the warehouse the source of truth for operational, product, and financial analytics
- Build the models that power delivery intelligence — forecasting, prediction, optimization, matching/allocation, and reliability scoring that turn our data into better real-time decisions
- Stand up the ML systems that make this real and reliable: feature pipelines, training, serving, evaluation, and drift monitoring
- Design the learning loop — instrument decisions and outcomes so models continuously improve
- Drive the AI agent initiative to production, partnering with product and engineering on the surrounding workflows
- Manage and grow the data and ML team (starting from a small core) — hire data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists/ML engineers as the platform matures
- Establish a clear intake process for ad hoc data requests so the team works from a roadmap, not in reactive mode
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Finance on data-driven analyses and decisions
Our take
For many B2C businesses, surviving today means meeting the on-demand delivery needs of consumers - something that can be difficult to achieve as a small business. Whilst last-mile delivery warehouses save small businesses from having to build their own delivery infrastructure, working exclusively with a single provider can greatly limit delivery options and stall a company's growth.
Burq provides an on-demand B2C delivery service platform which allows businesses to access multiple delivery providers for same-day delivery. The platform integrates directly with major sales platforms such as Zapier and Shopify, offering an analytic dashboard and delivery tracker across different modes of transport and providers.
Taking advantage of the expanding last-mile delivery sector, Burq has scaled its operations, swiftly building a thriving customer base in the small retailer and startup sectors. Having received funding from investors such as Village Global, it continues to launch new features and gain recognition as a partner for business growth.
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Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Salman Habib
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded HelpED Foundation where they served as the President. They also co-founded/ served as the CEO at Hellofriend.
Shaban Habib
(Co-Founder)Co-founder of HelpED Foundation and Hellofriend. Previously co-founded Hilfe Billing Providers and worked in Business Data Management at SunTrust.
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