Head of Data, Freshpaint
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Compliant customer data platform
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Compliant customer data platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.
Role
Who you are
- A senior data leader with a track record of building, scaling, and leading analytics-focused organizations, experience growing teams in a fast paced startup environment
- 7+ years in high-growth SaaS environments, with experience operating at the intersection of product, GTM, and data
- Hands-on experience implementing and scaling a data platform with personal track record of owning and maintaining technologies such as Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Looker, BigTable, etc
- Deep understanding of product analytics and business metrics, with strong judgment around data architecture and platform decisions
- Experience leading through influence and partnership with data engineering teams
- Proven ability to scale teams, set direction, and drive alignment across functions
- Experience owning or guiding customer-facing data and insight products
- Strong executive communication skills; able to translate data strategy into business outcomes
What the job involves
- As Freshpaint enters its next phase of growth, data is becoming a core driver of product strategy, go-to-market execution, and operational decision-making
- We’re looking for a senior data leader who can set the vision for analytics and data, align teams around it, and ensure it translates into measurable business impact
- This role leads Freshpaint’s analytics, ML, and data engineering direction
- You will define how data is used across the company, guide the evolution of our data architecture through strong partnership with data engineers, and ensure both internal teams and customers benefit from high-quality, actionable insights
- This is a leadership role first – focused on strategy, prioritization, and outcomes – with enough technical depth to guide decisions and challenge assumptions
- Set the company-wide strategy for product analytics, business metrics, and GTM insights
- Define the core measurement frameworks for product usage, activation, retention, expansion, and customer value
- Ensure analytics meaningfully influence product roadmap decisions, GTM strategy, and operational planning
- Oversee the delivery of trusted dashboards, reporting, and self-serve analytics used by executives and functional leaders
- Establish standards for metric definitions, data quality, and analytical rigor across the organization
- Lead the data engineering strategy in close partnership with data engineers
- Set expectations and priorities for how data engineering supports analytics, product insights, and ML use cases
- Ensure the data foundation (ingestion, modeling, storage, governance) scales with the business and product needs
- Act as the primary stakeholder for analytics requirements, guiding architectural decisions without owning day-to-day pipeline development
- Own the vision and prioritization for customer-facing analytics and insight products (benchmarks, insight cards, modeled datasets, ML/AI features)
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure these capabilities drive differentiation and customer value
- Balance experimentation and innovation with delivery of durable, scalable data products
- Lead and scale the analytics and ML organization; define roles, career paths, and team structure
- Hire and develop senior talent who can operate autonomously and influence cross-functionally
- Create clear operating rhythms, planning processes, and success metrics for the data organization
- Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and outcome-driven execution
- Own the data roadmap and prioritize initiatives based on business impact and strategic goals
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and CS leadership to align on data priorities
- Define and track data and analytics KPIs; ensure leadership has visibility into performance and outcomes
- Guide vendor strategy and build-vs-buy decisions across analytics and ML tooling
Our take
Accurate and compliant customer data has never been more important. However, acquiring and activating this data can prove very difficult and expensive for organizations without a dedicated engineering team - and especially in industries that handle a lot of sensitive data.
Freshpaint helps to change this with its platform that allows users to connect and standardize customer data, create behavioral datasets, and activate their data – all without a single line of code. HIPAA compliant, the platform serves organisations across the healthcare industry to help them learn how to better serve patients, while keeping their information safe.
The company boasts many positive case studies from organizations across the healthcare landscape. With strong funding at its back, Freshpaint is working to further expand its offerings to ensure these clients can safeguard sensitive data while still getting the most out of it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$9.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $39.7m
Company benefits
- Remote within US timezones (we are not async remote)
- Stock options package with a 10 year exercise window
- Unlimited PTO with a minimum of 2 weeks required
- Half-day Fridays
- 401k
- Health, dental, and vision Insurance - 100% covered for you, and up to 80% covered for dependents
- Mental health benefits - therapy sessions, regular check-ins, and more
- 2 Treat Yourself Days - $100 and a day off just to treat yourself, 2x per year
- Free Spotify
- Health + Wellness Benefit - $50/month to the gym, or whatever your thing is!
- Conferences - we'll pay for you to go and learn stuff
- Generous parental leave - regardless of your gender, take 12 weeks with your kid
- Life insurance
- Tech budget - Brand new MacBook and whatever else you need
- Monthly co-working credits
- 2-4 offsites Per Year
Company HQ
Mission Dolores, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Malis
(Founder)Before Freshpaint, they worked for digital insights platform Heap as a Software Engineer, leading the database team.
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