Description:
We are seeking a dynamic, hands-on Head of Data who will lead our data organization from vision and through delivery and operations. This person works closely with Product, Engineering, Design, the Leadership Team, and other stakeholders, and will both set strategy and roll up their sleeves when needed to drive a fast moving, dynamic product and growing Data organisation in the AI era.
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Define and drive the company-wide data strategy end-to-end, from how raw data is collected until it’s used in user-facing AI features or for internal decision making.
- Ensure teams at Linktree have the capabilities to make sound data-driven decisions and build the platforms and frameworks to hold teams accountable to high standards in decision making.
- Advance Linktree’s transformation into an insights- and AI-powered product with a clear, differentiated value proposition for our users.
- Make critical architecture and systems design decisions, ensure that systems are scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
- Stay current with technology trends/innovations and evaluate/adopt where beneficial, particularly in rapidly evolving areas like modern AI.
Hands-On Execution
- Contribute to major technical components, critical feature-launches, etc. and occasionally contribute to code or insights deep dives.
- Being involved in solution design for high-complexity or high-risk data or AI investments to maintain technical quality and help unblock teams.
- Lead or participate in technical deep-dives, especially for cross-team initiatives or for when the design has broad implications.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to deeply integrate the right data capabilities into teams, ensuring data and AI are core to how we build.
- Ensure our data & AI platforms empower the user-facing teams to build valuable product functionality at a high velocity while maintaining effectiveness and correctness.
- Represent Data to the executive team, surface key insights, communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and timelines in terms non-tech stakeholders understand.
- Collaborate on budget, resource allocation, technology investment decisions.
- Evangelize data science and AI practices both internally and externally through thought leadership like conference speaking.
Team Building, Mentorship & Management
- Build, grow, and mentor senior leaders, both as managers and ICs. Ensure strong leadership across your team.
- Recruit and retain top data talent, help define hiring strategy, interviewing, and onboarding.
- Ensure our teams leverage data to its full potential to make sound data-driven decisions and foster a culture of learning, decision quality, ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.
- Lead adoption of AI-driven tools to drive productivity and ensure we’re on the forefront of modern engineering and product building workflows.