Principal Enterprise Data Architect, Stitchfix
$142.8-210k
+ Equity
Online personal styling
Open for applications
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$142.8-210k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of experience in data discipline, with a focus on data architecture and data modeling
- You have a degree in an engineering or computer science field, or related discipline
- You have experience working in the e-commerce or retail industry
- You possess deep expertise in the design of data architecture, development of data models, data pipelines, and semantic or business data layers, with a strong understanding of how they can be enabled for advanced analytics and AI/ML
- You are proficient in Python and SQL
- You have exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience and drive alignment across groups
- You have familiarity with end-to-end data technologies including ingestion, transformation, storage, orchestration, analysis, data catalogs, data quality, and metadata management. (Examples: Fivetran, Spark, dbt, Looker, Airflow, Datahub)
- You have experience developing roadmaps and strategically planning large, enterprise-wide initiatives
- You possess excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment
- You have experience working autonomously and taking ownership of projects
- You possess strong experience building out scalable, distributed, and production systems in enterprise environments
- You have a desire to question the status quo and promote innovative solutions to challenging problems
What the job involves
- As our Enterprise Data Architect, you will be a leader in shaping this foundation, specifically by architecting the enterprise conceptual data layer that will be critical for unlocking the full potential of our data for the business and the advanced AI/ML applications we are building
- You will be a strategic bridge between the diverse teams within Data & Business Systems and a wide range of stakeholders - product managers, data scientists, merchandisers, operations managers, frontend engineers, platform engineers, financial analysts, and business leaders
- You will drive alignment for our enterprise data architecture with these partners and continue pushing it forward
- This role is on a high-visibility team and offers a unique opportunity to architect the very fabric of our data intelligence, driving impactful projects from day one
- This role reports to the Director of Data & Analytics within the Data & Business Systems organization
- Develop roadmaps for and guide strategic decisioning for highly visible data platforms and systems
- Collaborate with a wide variety of business partners and be a key representative of the Data & Business Systems organization
- Be a strategic voice in the evaluation and adoption of new technology within the core data tech stack
- Author processes and policies for effective data use and stewardship across Stitch Fix
- Build a culture of technical collaboration and scalable, resilient systems
- Work with bright and kind colleagues who are passionate about their craft
- Design and develop the enterprise-wide conceptual data model for our fashion/retail domain, encompassing key entities including products, customers, orders, inventory
- Have agency to architect and develop our enterprise semantic layer and underlying ontologies, laying the foundation for enhanced data understanding and AI-driven applications
- Define data models and data pipelines that are optimized for AI/ML use cases, ensuring data quality, feature engineering capabilities, and efficient model training and deployment
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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