Senior Director, Data Engineering

How you’ll make an impact

You will work with cross-functional teams of product managers, data scientists, engineers, and designers to shape the data infrastructure of our product and influence product decisions using data. We are looking for a Senior Director of Data Engineering to advance our evolving data engineering organization. In this role, you will closely partner with the Chief Technology Officer to shape an innovative and strategic data-focused vision that aligns with Spotnana objectives.

What you'll own

• Be the primary leader to define and develop the requirements for our product data infrastructure including data collection, metrics creation, modeling, and reporting on product performance
• Build, lead, develop, and retain a team of world-class Data Engineers
• Build high-performance scalable data warehouses and design data models for optimal storage and retrieval
• Design innovative strategy to build and launch efficient and reliable data pipelines to move and transform data 
• Define, compute, track, visualize, and continuously validate product metrics, leveraging analytics and business intelligence platforms
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define problem statements, and goals and build analytical models and measurement frameworks to assess progress and make recommendations 
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm
• Serve as a technical thought leader and champion

Experience you'll bring with you

• 10+ years of experience building data infrastructure, including 5+ years of hands-on management experience leading data engineering functions
• Deep knowledge of designing and implementing real-time pipelines
• Experience in large implementations of Cloud Platforms -  Hadoop, BigQuery, AWS, Snowflake
• Advanced SQL, Python and knowledge of Java, Scala, C/C++ or comparable programming language 
• A thoughtful and proven approach to building and growing high efficient engineering teams
• Strong ability to work with a variety of cloud data tools and technologies and recommend best tools for various needs 
• Demonstrated ability to develop sizing & capacity planning for large scale cloud big data platforms and optimizing performance and platform throughout
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with familiarity/comfortability, using mixed methods and/or types of data (i.e. qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, longitudinal)
• Be a self-starter, motivated by an interest in developing the best possible data-driven solutions
• Ability to operate in a fast paced, dynamic environment supporting rapidly growing business

Let’s talk compensation

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position’s compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications.

We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits offerings include:

• Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
• Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
• 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
• Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
• Monthly cell phone / internet stipend
• Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer’s online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more