Head of Data, Clubhouse
$250-315k
+ Equity
Social media app based on voice
Open for applications
Social media app based on voice
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$250-315k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fill everyone's life with rich and meaningful friendships.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced data leader. You can architect and build robust data pipelines, experimentation infrastructure, metrics dashboards, and monitoring tools in your sleep. You’re equally comfortable writing SQL, reviewing a complex experiment, or diving deep into metrics with the Board. You enjoy staying close to the work while building and leading teams, and know how to shift your time and attention based on what the function needs most. You probably have ~10 years of experience at high growth consumer companies, and you know what great looks like
- You have strong product and business sense. You think about data as a tool for making better product and business decisions, not as an end in itself. You can hold the business question in your head while deep in the weeds of analysis, and know when to stop analyzing and make a recommendation
- You like building over managing. Yes, you are fine taking on management responsibilities, and you do that part well. But you get more satisfaction from diving in and finding the answer than growing your management scope
- You’re a structured thinker. You can systematically break down a messy problem into its component parts, create a structured plan, and execute. You are high-bandwidth, fast with numbers, and quick with back-of-the-envelope thinking
- You ruthlessly prioritize and execute. You don’t do analyses that won’t change the answer. You push PMs to do napkin math to justify their roadmaps. You don’t do low-impact things just because they are low effort. You don’t like recurring meetings and you don’t take 30 minutes for them if you don’t need to. You start with agendas and leave with action items. You take pride in unblocking people
- You’re in the details of everything. You believe metrics should have precise definitions, experiment readouts should be statistically sound, and logging quality matters. You instantly spot mistakes, inconsistencies, or numbers that intuitively feel off. Your teammates wonder how you are able to zoom out and in so well
- You believe in systems. You retro things and improve your process constantly. You build tools and systems to give your teams leverage. You are extremely AI-pilled, usually the first to dive into new AI data tools. You firmly believe it is going to change everything about your craft
- You are an excellent communicator. You simplify the complex. Your written comms are concise and well structured. Your updates are easy to digest and actionable
- You act like an owner and bias towards action. You are proactive, resourceful, and thrive in highly autonomous environments. You take end-to-end accountability across execution, reliability, hiring, communication, and team growth. You don’t wait for permission to fix what’s broken
- You are low-ego. You have opinions, but will quickly evolve them in the face of new data. You don’t care whose idea it was. You are truth-seeking
- You have good values and care about doing the right thing. You want to work with people who have strong ethics and a good moral compass. You enjoy hanging out with your teammates, bring positive energy and make the workplace more fun
- You love what you do. You often find yourself thinking about your work at odd hours – not because you feel you have to, but because you’re excited to create something deeply meaningful for the world
What the job involves
- As Head of Data at Alpha, you’ll work closely with our CEO to help shape our strategy and build data into everything we do, using the latest AI tooling to reinvent our workflows and increase our speed of shipping daily. You’ll own the data function end-to-end while building and leading a small, high-leverage team in a player/coach capacity
- You’ll work alongside our CEO to drive our strategy. This means figuring out what features will drive growth the fastest, building systems to ruthlessly optimize them, and partnering with our CFO to drive revenue. Your work will directly inform what we build, how we measure success, and how we win
- You’ll build the machine that drives the whole company. Data informs everything here – from our product roadmap, to the health of our system, to the progress we’re making towards our mission. It’s critical that our systems are precise and reliable. You’ll start with a strong foundation, a modern stack (BigQuery, dbt, Mode, Eppo, Dust) and real data on millions of users. And you’ll improve upon that foundation each day
- You'll be the connective tissue across product decisions. From experiment readouts to post-launch reviews to weekly metric movement, you'll own the forums where the company aligns on what's working
- You’ll push what’s possible with AI. You’ll have the space and the mandate to be at the bleeding edge of AI tooling, helping transform the company into a closed-loop system, where data increasingly automates important work – from feature prioritization, to bug detection and monitoring – improving the speed with which we can ship great things
- You’ll build and ship. As a player/coach, you'll personally lead the highest-leverage investigations, readouts, and audits, modeling the bar you want the team to hold. Like our whole team, you’ll be hands-on, personally prototyping and building out new AI tools, staying sharp, and developing your skills
- You'll build a team and a culture. You’ll get to hire who you want to hire, mentor high-slope data scientists, and build the culture you think should exist here
- You’ll create something deeply meaningful for the world. Social products allow people to connect in ways that were never before possible. When the telephone was invented, it suddenly allowed people to speak with others across the world. Thanks to FaceTime, grandparents everywhere can now watch their grandchildren grow up. At Clubhouse, you’ll be figuring out something entirely new for the world – building something that brings people together to help everyone have a life filled with great friendships
Our take
Clubhouse is an invite-only audio chat social platform, catering to users who are turning away from mainstream social platforms. It makes talking, chatting, storytelling, and developing personal relationships more simple and effortless across the globe. With this approach, it is reducing the friction for human socialising in an increasingly digital world.
One big challenge for the company will be competing with larger platforms as they launch similar “social audio” features. This could make a real dent in Clubhouse’s market share, and it will also need to account for restrictions on its platform from countries such as China and the UAE.
That said, Clubhouse should at least be able to cash in on jumping on the social audio concept first. And, if it continues to roll out new features and focus on more intimate social connections, it will have a chance to carve itself a nice niche in the social media sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$100m
SERIES B
May 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $112m
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Great healthcare
- Family leave benefits
- Generous work from home stipend
- Work from anywhere
- Quarterly in-person get togethers
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Paul Davison
(Co-founder & CEO)Was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, before founding Highlight, which was acquired by Pinterest. After working as a Pinterest Product Lead for a year, they co-founded Clubhouse in February 2020.
Rohan Seth
(Co-founder)After graduating from Stanford in Computer Science, Rohan worked at Google for 6 years. Also co-founded Memry Labs, which was later acquired by Opendoor, as well as Lydian Accelerator.
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