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Data Lead

Stepful· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York City)$180k - $225k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Data Lead to own Stepful's data function—infra, analytics, and insights powering decisions across the company. Leads a team of three data analysts and engineers, remaining hands-on with code and modeling as the company scales.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three data analysts and engineers, setting the standard for rigor and craft
  • Own Stepful's data platform end to end — pipelines, warehouse, transformation layer, and BI tooling — and its reliability and scalability
  • Define and maintain the company's core metrics across the student journey (enrollment, engagement, completion, certification, placement) and business performance (CAC, LTV, retention)
  • Build dashboards and self-serve analytics that put trustworthy data in every team's hands
  • Partner with Growth and Product on experimentation — design, instrumentation, and analysis of A/B tests
  • Deliver deep-dive analyses that shape strategic decisions, from program design to budget allocation
  • Stay hands-on: write production SQL and Python, review your team's work, and take on the hardest technical problems yourself
  • Establish data governance and quality practices that scale with the company

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of data experience across analytics and data engineering, with at least 2+ years managing a team
  • Proven success as a player-coach — you set direction and manage people while still shipping your own work
  • Expert-level SQL and strong Python, with hands-on experience across the modern data stack (e.g., dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery, Airflow, Looker/Metabase)
  • Strong product and business sense — you connect data work to outcomes, not just deliverables
  • Experience designing and analyzing experiments in a high-growth environment
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to make complex findings clear to non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working with or knowledge of our tech stack: Fivetran for pipelines, Bigquery as our warehouse, Dataform for data transformations, and Preset for business intelligence

Skills

Required:SQLPythondbtSnowflake/BigQueryLooker/MetabaseData governanceExperimentation / A/B testingStakeholder communication
Nice to have:Airflow

Benefits

  • Meaningful Equity Stake
  • Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
  • 401(k)
  • FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
  • Open vacation policy, including: Guidance of 15 days PTO annually, Stepful closed the last week of December, 15 work-from-anywhere days, 10 public holidays observed for 2026
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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