Freshpaint

Head of Data

Freshpaint

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowBigQuery

About the role

  • Set the company-wide strategy for product analytics, business metrics, and GTM insights
  • Define the core measurement frameworks for product usage, activation, retention, expansion, and customer value
  • Ensure analytics meaningfully influence product roadmap decisions, GTM strategy, and operational planning
  • Oversee the delivery of trusted dashboards, reporting, and self-serve analytics used by executives and functional leaders
  • Establish standards for metric definitions, data quality, and analytical rigor across the organization
  • Lead the data engineering strategy in close partnership with data engineers
  • Set expectations and priorities for how data engineering supports analytics, product insights, and ML use cases
  • Ensure the data foundation (ingestion, modeling, storage, governance) scales with the business and product needs
  • Act as the primary stakeholder for analytics requirements, guiding architectural decisions without owning day-to-day pipeline development
  • Own the vision and prioritization for customer-facing analytics and insight products (benchmarks, insight cards, modeled datasets, ML/AI features)
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure these capabilities drive differentiation and customer value
  • Balance experimentation and innovation with delivery of durable, scalable data products
  • Lead and scale the analytics and ML organization; define roles, career paths, and team structure
  • Hire and develop senior talent who can operate autonomously and influence cross-functionally
  • Create clear operating rhythms, planning processes, and success metrics for the data organization
  • Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and outcome-driven execution
  • Own the data roadmap and prioritize initiatives based on business impact and strategic goals
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and CS leadership to align on data priorities
  • Define and track data and analytics KPIs; ensure leadership has visibility into performance and outcomes
  • Guide vendor strategy and build-vs-buy decisions across analytics and ML tooling

Requirements

  • A senior data leader with a track record of building, scaling, and leading analytics-focused organizations, experience growing teams in a fast paced startup environment
  • 7+ years in high-growth SaaS environments, with experience operating at the intersection of product, GTM, and data
  • Hands-on experience implementing and scaling a data platform with personal track record of owning and maintaining technologies such as Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Looker, BigTable, etc.
  • Deep understanding of product analytics and business metrics, with strong judgment around data architecture and platform decisions
  • Experience leading through influence and partnership with data engineering teams
  • Proven ability to scale teams, set direction, and drive alignment across functions
  • Experience owning or guiding customer-facing data and insight products
  • Strong executive communication skills; able to translate data strategy into business outcomes.
Benefits
  • Competitive pay + generous equity (10-year exercise window)
  • Fully remote (U.S. only) with a $150/month coworking stipend
  • Half-day Fridays, every Friday
  • Unlimited PTO—with a *required* 2-week minimum
  • Top-tier health, dental & vision (100% covered for you, 80% for dependents)
  • 2 “Treat Yourself” days a year—$100 and a day off, just because
  • Generous parental leave
  • Epic offsites twice a year (past trips: Greece, Jackson Hole, Cabo, wine country + more)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
product analyticsbusiness metricsdata engineeringdata architecturedata platform implementationdata governancemachine learningcustomer-facing analyticsKPI trackingdata modeling
Soft skills
leadershipinfluencecommunicationteam buildingstrategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationaccountabilitycuriosityoutcome-driven executionprioritization