Director of Data (Remote)

Jobright.ai; United States; Remote; USD 222,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

An AI-powered career platform is seeking a Director of Data to lead data teams and build infrastructure for data-driven decisions. The ideal candidate has experience in a startup environment, excellent communication skills, and a strong background in data architecture. This remote position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity for significant impact within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-growing startup environment.
• Proven ability to create and execute long-term data strategy.
• Track record of excellent people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team spanning data engineering and analytics.
• Define and execute strategic roadmap for data infrastructure.
• Establish data governance frameworks and quality standards.

Skills

Experience scaling data infrastructure

Deep understanding of modern data architectures

Excellent communication skills

Hands-on experience with data tools

Tools

Snowflake

Looker

Fivetran

dbt

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Job Summary:

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices. They are seeking a Director of Data to lead their data organization, build data infrastructure, and support data-driven decision-making across various departments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and grow a team spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data analysts, and data scientists.

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for data infrastructure and analytics capabilities across the organization.

• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, data models, analytics solutions, and business intelligence tooling.

• Establish data governance frameworks, quality standards, and unified data models across operational and product use cases.

• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, and Product teams to understand and address data needs including reporting.

• Expose Tailscale’s data to departments via a self service solution for Tailscaler’s to make high impact decisions.

• Optimize data flows and quality across key business systems (Salesforce, Stripe, Jira, etc.) and downstream analytics platforms (Looker, Grafana, Hightouch, etc.).

• Identify opportunities to leverage ultra modern AI/ML technologies to enhance product and business intelligence, internal tooling, and customer experience.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience scaling data infrastructure and teams in a fast-growing startup environment, with a track record of building and leading technical talent

• Deep understanding of modern data architectures, data modeling, and pipeline design with strong technical judgement for system optimization

• High curiosity, growth mindset, and experimentation orientation around AI and the intersection of AI and data infrastructure

• Proven ability to create and execute long-term data strategy while delivering immediate business impact. You think big, start small, and ship fast. You’re eager to test what’s new and know when to standardize what works. You have built systems that have scaled.

• Hands-on experience with our tech stack (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Looker) or similar modern data tools. You’re pragmatic, curious, and always learning.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders and frame data capabilities as solutions for enabling business objectives

• High ownership mentality and bias towards action, comfort with ambiguity, and strong commitment to driving results

• Track record of excellent people management, especially as it relates to hiring and developing talent

Preferred:

• B2B SaaS experience, both with PLG and sales-led business models

• Experience with usage-based products and or a draw down pricing model

• Experience with data platforms at high-growth companies

• Experience with billing systems, financial reporting, and compliance requirements

• Experience with unstructured data integrations and log processing

Company:

Tailscale is a software company that provides zero-configuration virtual private networks (VPNs) for secure connectivity. Founded in 2019, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, team size 51-200 employees, currently Growth Stage. Tailscale has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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