Director of Data Platform & AI Readiness

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

401(k) match

Wellness reimbursement

Gym access

Job summary

Acquisition.com is seeking its first Director of Data to own the data platform, single client record, and data governance. You will lead three senior data engineers and a half-time analyst to ensure reliable data for Finance and leadership, and to support AI initiatives.

You will report to the CTO and build a data program with measurable metrics, while remaining hands-on for SQL and data quality checks. This role requires strong leadership and technical influence across product teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform experience, including leading a data function and directly managing senior engineers; experience as a company's first or primary data leader is preferred.
• Hands-on experience building or rebuilding a modern cloud data stack, with advanced SQL skills and practical experience with warehouse architecture, data modeling, transformation, orchestration, and observability.
• Experience owning data systems used by production ML or LLM products, including versioned training, evaluation, and retrieval datasets, embeddings and vector search, labeling, leakage prevention, drift monitoring, and retrieval-quality evaluation. Must be able to explain how data quality decisions affected model performance in production.
• Experience building a customer master or identity resolution model across multiple source systems, including matching logic, survivorship rules, and field-level provenance.
• Experience delivering governed business metrics used by executives and Finance, including automated reconciliation, published data-quality standards, clear remediation ownership, and the ability to explain data tradeoffs in plain language.
• Experience implementing data governance and privacy controls, including retention, deletion, lineage, role-based access, and working knowledge of CCPA and CPRA; financial transaction or multi-entity data experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform end to end, including the warehouse, ingestion, transformation, semantic layer, orchestration, observability, vendors, and cost.
• Build the governed data systems behind production ML and LLM products, including versioned training, evaluation, feature, and retrieval datasets, embeddings and vector indexes, and controls for labeling, lineage, leakage, drift, and retrieval quality.
• Establish one authoritative client record across source systems with identity resolution, field-level provenance, and enforceable data contracts.
• Create the governed metrics layer and data quality program that Leadership and Finance use, including one definition per metric, published freshness standards, automated reconciliation, and named ownership by domain.
• Enforce privacy and access controls in the data layer with Security and Legal, including retention, deletion, cataloging, lineage, and boundaries between operating companies and partners.
• Lead the data team as one program through a published roadmap, clear operating cadence, documented on-call, talent development, and hands-on technical leadership when the work requires it.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Cloud data stack

Data governance

Team leadership

Identity resolution

Data quality program

Job description

Acquisition.com is seeking its first Director of Data to own the data platform, single client record, and data governance. You will lead three senior data engineers and a half-time analyst to ensure reliable data for Finance and leadership, and to support AI initiatives.

You will report to the CTO and build a data program with measurable metrics, while remaining hands-on for SQL and data quality checks. This role requires strong leadership and technical influence across product teams.