Director of Data Engineering, Flashfood
Travel as required
App for affordable, fresh groceries
Be an early applicant
App for affordable, fresh groceries
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Travel as required
21-100 employees
Company mission
To feed families, not landfills.
Role
Who you are
- 8–10 years of experience in data analytics, management and 3+ years of people leadership experience
- Proven track record of establishing standards for data teams and developing individual talent
- Strong technical skills, including SQL, data modeling, and familiarity with data engineering tools (e.g., dbt, Spark, Airflow)
- Strong knowledge of data quality, metadata, and governance frameworks
- Experience translating business needs into scalable data solutions
- A collaborative mindset and comfort working across diverse stakeholder groups
- Exceptional communication and change management skills
- Passion for purpose-driven work and the mission of reducing food waste
What the job involves
- As Director of Data at Flashfood, you’ll play a hands-on role in shaping and scaling the company’s data function, focusing not just on strategy and execution, but on building a high-performing team
- Reporting to the CFO, you’ll lead a team of data managers, analysts, and engineers, and work cross-functionally to ensure data fuels revenue growth, partner retention, and actionable insights that drive impact across the organization
- Build a comprehensive partner analytics dashboard that drives insights and increases revenue/retention
- Be hands-on with data infrastructure, including working directly in Snowflake and Databricks environments, designing data models, and overseeing ML model integration
- Integrate and automate data into decision-making across teams, supporting strategic initiatives
- Lead the development of dashboards, visualizations, and reports that support strategic initiatives
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities to integrate predictive models into products and operations. Drive model deployment workflows using modern tools like Databricks
- Identify opportunities to automate and streamline data management, including partner remittance
- Operationalize the business with an in-house dashboard that includes KPIs that measure success
- Collaborate with Engineering, Privacy, Legal, and Product teams to embed data management practices into product development and operations
- Proactively monitor data-related risks and ensure strong internal controls and mitigations are in place
- Oversee daily operations of data governance, including metadata management, data access protocols, archiving and optimization of the data management tech stack
- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise-wide data governance practices
- Ensure consistent data quality, integrity, classification, access controls, and lifecycle management
- Foster a data stewardship culture by working with internal teams to ensure accountability for data ownership
- Champion the ethical use of data and drive practices that balance accessibility, privacy, and compliance
Our take
As the world moves to become more sustainable, issues such as global food waste are increasingly apparent. Food waste is not only a travesty because of world hunger but also because of the devastating greenhouse gas emissions caused as a result.
Flashfood considered how they could tackle this issue. The mobile marketplace provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date and salvaging food that can be used to help feed those in need or those who are unable to afford fresh and healthy food. The app allows users to browse through available deals at participating stores near them. Customers can then purchase items directly in the app and pick up orders from the Flashfood zone in their participating store.
The company has numerous partners across Canada and the United States, and has saved shoppers millions on their grocery bills, as well as removing gargantuan amounts of product from the waste cycle. Indeed, its collaboration with food solutions company SpartanNash alone has saved families $1.9M, and diverted one million pounds of food waste. Flashfood continues to develop its strategic partnerships and further its expansion, on the back on earning the number one spot in the Social Good Category on the 2023 Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2022
$12.3m
SERIES A
Jul 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $12.5m
Company HQ
King West Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Josh Domingues
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Founded Flashfood in 2016 after reading about the environmental effects of food waste. Began their career as an Investment Advisor before spending time as a Management Consultant and VP at a family office that managed financial affairs for professional hockey players.
Jordan Schenck
(CEO)Jordan initially joined the Flashfood team as a Board Member and CBO, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously they co-founded Sunwink where they served as CMO and CRO.
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