Head of Data, AI-Driven Platform (Remote)

Rocket Lawyer; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 361,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

Unlimited PTO

Competitive salary packages

Life insurance

401k with company match

Equity options

Job summary

Rocket Lawyer is seeking a Head of Data to own the vision, architecture and execution of our data ecosystem. You will lead a modern cloud data platform on GCP, govern data quality and metrics, and drive AI-enabled analytics across the enterprise.

You will partner with the CTO and executive team to set strategy and standards that empower Finance, Growth, Marketing, Product and Legal teams to self-serve trusted insights.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data engineering, data platforms or analytics, with 5+ years leading data teams including leaders of teams.
• Hands-on player-coach who sets strategy and delivers, and sees work through to the end.
• Leadership of data engineering and analytics as one organization, with self-service for multiple functions.
• Demonstrated understanding of what online businesses need from data across growth, product, marketing and finance.
• Experience with product analytics tools such as Amplitude and with experiment design to shape instrumentation.
• Led a platform migration end to end, including plan, cutover and retirement of replaced systems.
• Deep knowledge of modern data platforms (Databricks or Snowflake, dbt, Spark, SQL, orchestration, and cloud streaming).
• Experience preparing data for AI and machine learning, and fluency using AI in work.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year data strategy and target architecture.
• Own platform and vendor decisions across warehouse, lakehouse, orchestration and analytics tooling.
• Partner with CTO and engineering leaders on data emission, ownership and sharing.
• Lead cloud data infrastructure and data engineering platforms.
• Set engineering standards for data transformation models, CI/CD, observability and on-call.
• Define instrumentation standards for front-end and product data tracking and fix issues at the source.
• Ensure real-time and batch pipelines are reliable, observable and cost-efficient.

Skills

Data strategy

Team leadership

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Spark

SQL

Amplitude

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Spark

Amplitude

Job description

Rocket Lawyer is seeking a Head of Data to own the vision, architecture and execution of our data ecosystem. You will lead a modern cloud data platform on GCP, govern data quality and metrics, and drive AI-enabled analytics across the enterprise.

You will partner with the CTO and executive team to set strategy and standards that empower Finance, Growth, Marketing, Product and Legal teams to self-serve trusted insights.