Head of Data
Addition Wealth
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSMatillionPostgresSQLSwitchingTerraform
About the role
- Define and drive Addition Wealth’s data vision and roadmap across analytics, infrastructure, governance, and personalization, ensuring work ladders to company priorities.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to surface high-leverage questions, translate them into measurable metrics, and guide decision-making with clear insights.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small, high-impact team (Data Analyst and Senior Data Engineer), providing coaching and technical direction while staying hands-on.
- Own the end-to-end analytics lifecycle—metric definition, data quality, dashboards, deep dives, and executive-ready narratives including scenario modeling.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years in data-focused roles spanning analytics and/or data engineering, ideally in high-growth startups or fintech.
- Proven ability to operate as a senior IC while also leading a small team—comfortably switching between strategy and execution.
- Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, and analytics best practices.
- Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines and warehousing solutions (Postgres, Snowflake/Redshift, Segment, dbt, Airflow, or similar).Experience with AWS-based data infrastructure (S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, ECS, etc.) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).A strong product and business mindset: you care about impact, not just outputs.
- Excellent communication skills; you can cut through the noise to develop clear plans and crisp insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort in ambiguity and speed: you launch, learn, iterate, and don’t wait for perfection.
- Bonus: experience with Matillion, financial wellness, or other regulated/consumer fintech products.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 401(k) & Employer Match
- Work from anywhere
- Health insurance & wellness benefits
- Equity compensation
- Generous parental leave
- Unlimited vacation
- Company offsites
- Unlimited access to financial professionals
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLdata modelinganalytics best practicesdata pipelinesdata warehousingPostgresSnowflakeRedshiftdbtAirflow
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityteam collaborationdecision-makingcoachinginsight development