Director of Solutions Architecture, LeapYear Technologies
Unlocks value from sensitive data assets
Job no longer available
Unlocks value from sensitive data assets
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
1-20 employees
Company mission
To challenge the issues of privacy, security, and data access that accompanies the rise of large-scale data collection and machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to present complex technical concepts in a clear, precise, and actionable manner with excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Fluency in data analytics architecture, including knowledge of Big Data (e.g. Hadoop/Spark ecosystem), RDBMS, ETL concepts, BI tools, advanced machine learning (e.g. scikit-learn, MLlib, TensorFlow), etc
- Familiarity with data science process, machine learning, data architecture, and IT systems
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage enterprise customer relationships
- Experience communicating with diverse audiences, including but not limited to line-of-business, technical, and executive stakeholders
- Prior experience positioning the value of data science from business and technical standpoint
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in relevant technical discipline, such as CS or math
- Experience with the analytical workflows used in financial services and healthcare
- Ability to coordinate with engineering, product management, marketing, and data science teams
- Entrepreneurial mindset & demonstrated success in a dynamic start-up environment
What the job involves
- Develop a deep understanding of data privacy, security, and machine learning, from a business, technology, and policy perspective
- Become an expert in applying LeapYear's technology to complex enterprise problems
- As a technical subject matter expert, educate customers, prospects, and partners on differential privacy at mathematical level, and help translate its impact into business value
- Alongside a sales director, execute a use-case driven land-and-expand strategy, and build existing accounts by discovering new use cases across Global 2000 enterprises
- Serve as an active customer advocate in product management discussions, especially feature prioritization and defining requirements
Our take
The fall-out from large-scale privacy breaches can be devastating across social, political, and economic fields. It can prove a multi-million dollar mistake for companies themselves. As can non-compliance with increasingly complex and restrictive privacy regulations. LeapYear Technologies enables companies to analyze and monetize sensitive data, without extracting information about individual records.
Machine learning with large and sensitive data sets continues to yield ground-breaking advances across various sectors, but it will need to contend with ethical requirements if it is to continue apace. LeapYear have attracted over 1,000 clients across healthcare, finance, and insurance, and their enterprise platform for 'differentially private machine learning' is in high demand.
Having amassed great success in the sector, it was announced early in 2023 that LeapYear would be acquired by Snowflake "subject to customary closing conditions", a move which will see LeapYear's team and technology brought into Snowflake to help its customers leverage previously off-limits data.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2021
$15m
LATE VC
May 2019
$25.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $53.2m
Company benefits
- Immigration assistance
- 8 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Dedicated fertility benefit program through Maven
- Access to a digital library of 30,000+ books and career-advancing courses
- Regular tech talks + lunch & learns where you can share what you’ve learned
- Health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Unlimited sick leave
- Parents at LeapYear have extra flexibility to work remote
- LeapYear pays $1000 into your dependent care Flexible Spending Account each year
- Remote-friendly
- San Francisco office
- Get-togethers - each quarter, we fly you out to team gatherings, and we organize hikes, escape rooms, movie nights, regular happy hours, and team outings
- Lunch at downtown SF restaurants, on us
- Commuter credits to cover public transit, ride-sharing, or parking
- Stipends for relocation and workstation equipment
- Disability, accident, and life insurance available
- 401K plan with 4% match
- Salaries regularly benchmarked against hundreds of top Bay Area companies
- Equity program for all full-time employees, with opportunity for regular refresh grants
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ishaan Nerurkar
(Founder)Has worked as a Researcher at MIT and at the University of Pennsylvania. Was a Consultant at Primus Systems. They will be responsible for integrating LeapYear into Snowflake.
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