Director of Data, Moonfare
4+ days a week in office
Global private equity investment platform
Posted today
Global private equity investment platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
4+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To lead a new era for private equity investing and open the door to higher returns for more people.
Role
Who you are
- You bring deep, hands-on expertise across data engineering, AI, architecture, and pipelines. You lead the strategy and get into the weeds with your team on the hardest technical problems, contributing directly rather than just directing from a distance
- You've built or significantly evolved a modern data platform in a regulated financial services environment, and you understand what compliance, auditability, and data quality actually demand at the architecture level
- You have a strong, opinionated point of view on what modern AI and agentic systems need from a data function, and you've put that thinking into practice in real products and platforms, not just on slides
- You're an experienced people leader who has unified or scaled a multi-disciplinary data team, and can bring engineers, analysts, and architects together around a shared mission while knowing when to roll up your sleeves alongside them
- You thrive in pressured, high-ambiguity scale-up environments and are energised by carrying both the strategic load and a meaningful share of the technical work
- You're a credible partner to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, able to translate between business outcomes and technical reality
What the job involves
- Reporting to the CTO, you will own the data strategy and execution for Moonfare at a pivotal moment in our growth
- We are building the infrastructure and intelligence layer that will power how we serve investors, operate as a business, and scale into new markets, and data is the foundation everything else depends on
- You will inherit a capable team and a real mandate: to bring it together, raise the bar, and build a data function that is fit for where Moonfare is going, not just where it has been
- The role demands someone who can hold the strategic vision and get into the technical detail, knowing when to lead from the front and when to elevate the people around them
- In return, you get a rare scope, shaping how a fast-growing private equity platform thinks about, structures, and activates its data from the ground up
- This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and the wider business, leading our combined Data Engineering and Analytics function
- The team is 6 people across pipelines, analytics, and architecture who will come together under your leadership into one cohesive function with a shared mission
- The team's work underpins how Moonfare makes decisions, serves its investors, and builds towards an AI-driven operating model, making this one of the highest-leverage functions in the business
- Define and execute the data strategy for Moonfare, building the platforms, pipelines, and governance that give the business a reliable, scalable, and intelligent data foundation to grow on
- Bring 6 people across data engineering, analytics, and architecture into one cohesive team, setting the operating model, rituals, and standards that make the function more than the sum of its parts
- Architect and build the infrastructure that sources, structures, and serves data across investment, investor relations, operations, and compliance use cases
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product to make data the substrate that our AI and agentic capabilities are built on, and with the business to enable self-serve reporting and operational intelligence
- Stay deep in the technical detail across architecture reviews, design decisions, and pipeline trade-offs, while also representing data credibly to executive stakeholders and the Board
- Embed compliance and regulatory thinking into every layer of the platform, recognising the demands of operating in a regulated financial services environment
Our take
Many high-level investment opportunities are solely reserved for financial institutions. This means that top-tier equity funds are completely out of reach for most private investors. Moonfare solves this problem by giving individuals access to institution-level investing.
Moonfare's platform allows investors to participate in funding rounds offered by some of the biggest investing companies, including The Carlyle Group and Tiger Global. The company offers investment opportunities with investment minimums as low as €50,000, which is about 100x less than the traditional minimum. So, while not everyone can afford to make investments through the company, a much larger pool of people have the ability to enter private markets.
Moonfare is headed up by an impressive team of KKR, BlackRock, Amazon and J.P. Morgan alums, which adds significant credibility to its product. The platform has also grown considerably since launching and more recently partnered with Fundcraft to enhance its digital infrastructure, automate fund administration, KYC, and capital call processes. This integration enables eligible investors to register and invest directly online in minutes, an exciting feat which will surely catch the eye of many investors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$15m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $216.6m
Company benefits
- Attractive compensation: We benchmark our compensation against other Fintechs and aim to pay at the 75th percentile.
- Relax and Recharge: You start your career at Moonfare with 25 vacation days and earn one extra day per year of tenure. Additionally, we have company-wide days off on different occasions.
- Growth budgets: Each full-time employee receives a minimum of €1,500 growth budget/ year that can be used for seminars, coaching, certification or other things that fosters your growth.
- Free daily lunches: On top of snacks, fruits, cereals and drinks, we offer lunch in our Berlin office and generous lunch budgets in our other offices.
- Mental health support: Our mental health platform nilo.health gives all employees access to online counseling, daily meditations and mindfulness workshops.
- Other benefits: We also offer a variety of other benefits like company parties and events, a referral bonus of €2,000, spontaneous company-wide vacation and company merch.
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Dr Steffen Pauls
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Previously worked as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, and as Managing Director & Head of Germany at KKR. Has founded companies such as MOMENTAR and 7 Global Capital.
Alexander Argyros
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Co-founder of BlueLayer. Previously co-founded Somuchmore where they served as the Managing Director. They have also spent time at KKR and J.P. Morgan as an Associate.
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