Head of Data, Pave

$263.5-350k

+ Equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

4+ days a week in office

Pave

Employee compensation tools

Open for applications

Pave

Employee compensation tools

201-500 employees

FintechB2BHRMarket researchSaaS

Open for applications

$263.5-350k

+ Equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

4+ days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2BHRMarket researchSaaS

Company mission

To build the world's best compensation tools and easily accessible market data so companies can plan, communicate, and benchmark in real-time.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking a leader that is at or above the director level (emphasis is at the Director level – but we want to speak to the best data leaders we can that are excited about helping with Pave’s mission and our challenges)
  • Demonstrated intellectual horse-power, creativity, analytical thinking, curiosity, and technical depth. Comfort with ambiguity and wading through it
  • Leadership - building and inspiring teams. Proactivity that is felt in the organization. Demonstrates learning from past experiences and mistakes. Demonstrates the impact of their leadership
  • 10+ years of professional experience, with 5+ years experience leading teams
  • Proven support of other business functions with data science and analytics (e.g., Marketing, Sales, Customer Support)
  • Experience in early product development and managing trade-offs
  • Expertise in Data Science, statistical modeling, and machine learning
  • Sufficient technical expertise to oversee Data Engineering or effectively collaborate with Data Engineering teams

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a talented leader for our Data team to accelerate our path and play a critical role for the core differentiating strategy of the company
  • This will include data product development, data quality, and product data science
  • Grow and operate a high-performing data organization to execute Pave’s Market Data strategy
  • Provide strategic and technical direction to accelerate our Market Data success, ensuring innovation, scalability, and a deep understanding of compensation trends that drive decisions
  • Opportunity to build truly innovative products in a space that’s massively impactful (50% of GDP on the planet is impacted by compensation)
  • Work with some of the most influential tech companies in the world who are beating down our door to solve their problems around compensation

Our take

Compensation survey and merit cycle processes are integral to so many businesses, and yet remain time-consuming manual activities. Staff often lack financial training resulting in spreadsheet induced errors. Pave saw a need to update and streamline the process.

The core advantage of Pave is its ease of integration with HRIS, ATS and cap table software, creating real-time compensation data views without the need for spreadsheets. Using the software creates a fair and transparent system that management can rely on and employees can respect. The company has seen strong momentum, with backing from big names like Y Combinator and az16.

Some organisations have been reluctant to adopt solutions like Pave’s on account of the radical transparency it provides. However, with companies like Credit Karma, Miro and Discord all signing on, Pave has proven its ability to draw lucrative enterprise-level clients. This bodes well for the company’s ongoing success.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

10% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Tech & tools

"Our product is disrupting an industry that touches almost anyone employed - compensation. I'm fired up about the impact Pave has in the market for..."

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2022

$100m

SERIES C

Aug 2021

$46m

SERIES B

Total funding: $170m

Company benefits

  • Compensation: Startup equity for full-time employees
  • Wellness: Top tier health insurance along for full-time employees
  • Food: All meals while working, plus snacks. We take our snacking seriously
  • Commute: Commuter pre-tax benefit accounts + employer contribution for full-time employees
  • Tech: Choose your laptop and accessories of choice
  • Team: Retreats, happy hours, and events for our team, friends, and family
  • Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - we encourage our team to unplug with unlimited PTO
  • WFH Wednesday: A dedicated work from home day each week + additional flexibility by team!

Company values

  • Bring Your Fire
  • Be Intellectually Honest
  • Focus On Impact
  • Be Transparent
  • Hug Of Jawn
  • Stretch The Rubber Band, But Don’t Break It

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Matt studied at the Wharton School before working as an Engineer at DollarsEd and spending 2 years as a Facebook Software Engineer. He left this role in June 2019 to co-found Pave in October.

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