Data Engineering and Analytics Manager, Spark
$185-200k
Plus equity
Helping Medicare Brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
Open for applications
Helping Medicare Brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$185-200k
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
We’re Spark, a mission-driven company helping independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years in data engineering and analytics in a startup environment
- 1+ years in leading data teams in a management capacity
- Strong technical foundation in data engineering and infrastructure with a modern data stack (GCP or Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran)
- Experience automating data workflows and cleaning messy data with modern tools (Dataform or dbt)
- Experience with BI tools and visualizing data (Metabase, Looker, Tableau or similar)
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
- Strong project management, planning and prioritization skills
- The ability to both think strategically and tactically, architecting while executing
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating on asks from cross-functional stakeholders
What the job involves
- Spark is looking to bring on a manager to lead our Data function
- Historically, the industry has had a lack of transparency, however, Spark is on a mission to change that and you can be a key part of the change by helping Spark and our customers wrangle, structure and draw valuable insights from a variety of data sources
- In this role, you will be responsible for all-things-data at Spark
- You will work with data engineers to build out our data warehouse and implement technology that allows us to productionalize new data products for our agents
- You will guide your team to take messy data from insurance carriers and standardize and automate the cleaning and processing of it
- You will work with your team to build analytics infrastructure and dashboards, empowering Spark and our customers to make more data-driven decisions
- Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will collaborate closely with product, engineering, carrier relations, and other organizations across Spark to drive our data initiatives
- Hire, onboard, and mentor team members across data engineering, pipelining, and analytics
- Balance hands-on technical work with providing high-level guidance and mentorship to the team
- Drive the planning, prioritization, scoping and execution of the data roadmap
- Partner with product, engineering, carrier relations, and finance on strategic data initiatives, acting as the key point of contact for data-related needs
- Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure on our data stack in GCP using BigQuery, Dataform, Datastream, Cloud Composer, Metabase and Hex
- Architect and build pipelines to transform data from messy into structured and consumable for key agent features
- Automate and standardize manual data processes, ensuring efficiency and scalability, turning messy data into clean and valuable datasets
- Guide your team in providing BI insights and building and maintain dashboards that enable data-driven decision-making
Our take
Medicare is the national health insurance package for US citizens over the age of 65, with most people that seek to enrol in a plan making use of brokers to help them evaluate and select options. Spark is a technology company and “concierge” service that partners with independent Medicare brokers and provides a platform that helps them navigate and build retirement benefit packages for customers.
Handling the marketing, sales support, back office, and compliance requirements of Medicare brokering, Spark bridges the gap between insurance agents and their customers. The company already has partnerships with more than 100 leading Medicare agencies that represent over 3400 brokers, a good starting point from which to grow.
Agetech is a growing market, due to an aging population and longer lifespans, and Spark has benefitted from an increased demand and interest in Medicare brokering. Highlighting this is its 2024 raise of a $25 million Series B funding round that will support its future growth and product development.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
52% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53.6m
Company benefits
- Paid holidays - Everyone needs a healthy, happy, and productive life. This means you'll need time to rest & recover without restrictive holiday limits
- Flexible, remote working - We want you to work when and where you're most productive, whether you’re an early bird or a night owl
- Medical & dental benefits - Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Meaningful equity - You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Everyone in our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Top of the line equipment - We’ll set you up with the right tools to do your best work—starting with a MacBook Pro, 4K monitors, & the right software to get the job done
- A team that cares - You’ll be joining a team of smart, capable, helpful people that want you to win, our clients to be wowed, and our business to grow
Company values
- TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED - We serve partners and clients with unique needs and backgrounds. Our team's empathy reflects that diversity
- STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE - We are ambitious, self-reflective and committed to growth
- EXPLICIT ACCOUNTABILITY, BROAD RESPONSIBILITY - We clearly identify ownership, anticipate the needs of our teammates, and reward proactive initiative
- SUCCEED AS A TEAM - We celebrate wins, small and large, and recognize that success is a team effort
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
James Jiang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder at Roster, Analyst at Night Owl Capital and part of the Restraucturing and Reorganisation Team at The Blackstone Group.
Byron Edwards
(Co-Founder)Previously Venture General Manager at Create, MBA Venture Fellow at AlleyCorp, Chief of Staff for the CFO at WeWork and an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group.
Alex Zhang
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Product at Cedar. Also worked on Product Custody and Training at Betterment and was a Product Manager at AppNexus.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Spark
- At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
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