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Director of Data

Acquisition.com· Technology
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Remote$250k - $275k + bonusFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

We are hiring our first Director of Data to lead the data function, ensure data reliability and usability for people, products, and AI systems, and own the data platform, single client record, and governed metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Own the data platform end to end, including the warehouse, ingestion, transformation, semantic layer, orchestration, observability, vendors, and cost.
  • Build the governed data systems behind production ML and LLM products, including versioned training, evaluation, feature, and retrieval datasets, embeddings and vector indexes, and controls for labeling, lineage, leakage, drift, and retrieval quality.
  • Establish one authoritative client record across source systems with identity resolution, field-level provenance, and enforceable data contracts.
  • Create the governed metrics layer and data quality program that Leadership and Finance use, including one definition per metric, published freshness standards, automated reconciliation, and named ownership by domain.
  • Enforce privacy and access controls in the data layer with Security and Legal, including retention, deletion, cataloging, lineage, and boundaries between operating companies and partners.
  • Lead the data team as one program through a published roadmap, clear operating cadence, documented on-call, talent development, and hands-on technical leadership when the work requires it.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform experience, including leading a data function and directly managing senior engineers; experience as a company's first or primary data leader is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience building or rebuilding a modern cloud data stack, with advanced SQL skills and practical experience with warehouse architecture, data modeling, transformation, orchestration, and observability.
  • Experience owning data systems used by production ML or LLM products, including versioned training, evaluation, and retrieval datasets, embeddings and vector search, labeling, leakage prevention, drift monitoring, and retrieval-quality evaluation. Must be able to explain how data quality decisions affected model performance in production.
  • Experience building a customer master or identity resolution model across multiple source systems, including matching logic, survivorship rules, and field-level provenance.
  • Experience delivering governed business metrics used by executives and Finance, including automated reconciliation, published data-quality standards, clear remediation ownership, and the ability to explain data tradeoffs in plain language.
  • Experience implementing data governance and privacy controls, including retention, deletion, lineage, role-based access, and working knowledge of CCPA and CPRA; financial transaction or multi-entity data experience is preferred.

Skills

Required:Data platform leadershipCloud data stackProduction ML/LLM data systemsIdentity resolution / customer masterGovernance & privacy

Benefits

  • Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off and Company-wide Holidays
  • Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, & Vision plans
  • $1,950 annual Employer HSA contribution
  • FSA options including dependent care
  • Employee assistance program and mental health resources
  • Employer match program for 401(k), eligible for both Traditional and Roth accounts
  • $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON
  • Access to a state of the art gym at our HQ in Las Vegas (for local or visiting team members)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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