Data Ops Team Lead (Remote) – Delivery & Processes

AENU; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote setup

Multicultural, distributed team

Flexible hours

Job summary

Equitable Earth is seeking a Data Ops Team Lead to own the operational backbone of our certification delivery. You will lead the Ops sub-team, coordinate with Certification and External Relations, and drive process improvements across data workflows.

The role requires 4+ years in technical leadership, strong PM and communication skills, and fluency in English in a fully remote, global setting. Remote overlap with business hours is expected.

Qualifications

• 4+ years coordinating or managing a small technical team; prior leadership experience.
• Strong project management skills with multiple concurrent requests.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience designing and improving processes, workflows and operations.
• Fluency in English; able to work effectively in a fully remote setup.
• Experience in carbon/climate sector and certification processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Ops sub-team, setting priorities and tracking delivery.
• Act as single point of contact for Certification and External Relations teams.
• Join discussions with project developers, auditors and partners as needed.
• Monitor capacity, progress and blockers; report to Director of Engineering.
• Build and maintain SOPs; drive knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Design intake/triage processes; improve workflows for reliable delivery at scale.
• Support methodology operationalisation; coordinate dependencies with Data Engineering and R&D.
• Step in on operational tasks to unblock the team during peak workloads.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Communication

Process design

Stakeholder management

Proactive problem-solving

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (Data Science, Environmental Science, Engineering, Project Management)

Tools

Notion

Python

GIS tools

Data pipelines

Job description

Equitable Earth is seeking a Data Ops Team Lead to own the operational backbone of our certification delivery. You will lead the Ops sub-team, coordinate with Certification and External Relations, and drive process improvements across data workflows.

The role requires 4+ years in technical leadership, strong PM and communication skills, and fluency in English in a fully remote, global setting. Remote overlap with business hours is expected.