Director of Data Engineering, Headspace Health
$180-287.5k
+ Stock awards
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Mental health and wellbeing platform
Be an early applicant
Mental health and wellbeing platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-287.5k
+ Stock awards
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform mental healthcare to improve the health and happiness of the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of hands-on experience in big data technologies, with Staff Engineer+ skills in pySpark, dbt, and Databricks
- 5+ years directly managing Data or Analytic Engineers
- Experience designing and implementing performant, flexible data architectures, including testing, observability, and data quality alerting
- Experience with code reviews of other team members to ensure engineering quality
- Experience developing solutions that meet HIPAA (or other PII/PCI) requirements, including data anonymization
- Experience partnering with product leaders to improve instrumentation and A/B testing capabilities
- Track record of technical and functional stakeholder management, including an ability to distill complexity for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience building and executing on cross-functional roadmaps, building OKRs and milestones
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience as a technical leader with a track record of delivering results and making progress in a fast changing, ambiguous problem space
- Ability to articulate, influence, and drive changes across multiple teams and levels of stakeholders
What the job involves
- Data Engineering is essential to the long-term success of Headspace and our mission, and we need an experienced hands-on engineering leader to build the data infrastructure we need to power the phase of our growth
- You will be responsible for leading and growing a team of talented engineers, spearheading our data strategy and architecture, ensuring best practices for data governance and privacy, and partnering with senior technical leaders across the business to propel Headspace to new heights
- This is a hands-on role for leaders who aren’t afraid to get into the weeds and solve challenging data problems
- Your primary stakeholders will be Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, AI/ML, and Product Engineering leaders
- Lead, attract, and grow stellar technical talent as we continue to invest in Data and AI
- Develop and drive strategic roadmaps for scalable data architecture, ELT, and data pipelines
- Directly manage data engineers and contractors with a wide range of experience levels
- Partner with our CISO to ensure compliance with HIPPA and privacy standards
- Distill complexity for technical and non-technical audiences
- Build cross-functional relationships with other technology leaders
- Effectively prioritize tradeoffs between reducing tech debt and developing innovative data products
- Explore new technologies to support the future state of our business
- Model tenacity and resilience in the day to day
Our take
The world is facing a growing mental health crisis. In 2022, the US saw the proportion of the population with an acute anxiety, depression or other mental health need grow from 20% to 40%.
In 2021, Headspace and Ginger finalised a $3bn merger to form Headspace Health, an accessible mental health platform. It is determined to democratize mental healthcare, and its brands are already being used by over 100 million people and more than 4,000 enterprises including Starbucks, Adobe and Paramount.
There is clearly a need for virtual mental healthcare, and the market is growing increasingly crowded, with competitors including His & Hers Health. However, Headspace Health sets itself apart with its rapidly growing portfolio of services, added in part through strategic acquisitions such as that of AI health firm Sayana in 2022. It is now focusing on international expansion, offering its services directly to companies in the UK for the first time.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2020
$47.7m
SERIES C
Feb 2020
$53m
SERIES C
Total funding: $175.4m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Russell Glass
(CEO, not founder)Previously VP of Products at Linkedin. Was also CEO of Ginger, before it merged with Headspace to create Headspace Health. Presently, on the Board at CollegeSolved, Breakthrough Collaborative, and Rock the Vote.
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