Head of Data, Pilot

• 5+ years of relevant Data experience
• Strategic and business-focused — you should understand the main business metrics we care about and be able to dive into the details to determine how those metrics are impacted
• Experience hiring and building out impactful data organizations that own business outcomes
• Experience managing or leading both Data Analysts and Data Engineers
• Have experience/familiarity with our current tech stack (experience with all of these at once is not required): Cloud Services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), Airflow, Segment, Fivetran, Snowflake, Mixpanel, Census, dbt, Looker
• Hands on: able to be a technical peer and mentor to the day-to-day work of the Data organization, from helping diagnose issues with our data pipelines to responding to urgent data requests from high-profile stakeholders across the company

Desirable

• We are searching for a Head of Data to own the data function at Pilot
• This leader will manage a team of Data Analysts and Data Engineers and work directly to build and maintain data pipelines form third party sources, own and develop the data modeling that produces single sources of truth for business metrics, and empower business users of data to make better business decisions with high quality dashboards and reporting
• Own the data infrastructure, analytical outputs, prioritization and roadmap
• Own the quality, understandability, and reporting of key company metrics from ingestion to modeling and reporting
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to understand and prioritize their needs
• Empower data-driven decision making across the company
• Hire, manage, and uplevel a team of Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Analysts
• Customers of this role encompass all of Pilot, including:
• Executives and GMs, who need data to inform strategy or report to the board/investors
• Operations, who will use data to hone their processes and make them more efficient
• R&D, who will use data to inform team strategy, prioritize work, and measure impact
• GTM who use data to develop campaigns, understand our target markets, and assess revenue performance
• The team is currently:
• 1 data analyst who responds to high priority requests for dashboards and analytics on demand, but is primarily focused on building durable reporting for key company metrics
• 1 analytics engineer who owns the ETL pipeline/data warehousing solution and dashboarding tool that teams can use to self serve data