Banking for startups: mercury.com

Director of Data

DirectorDirectorFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2019H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

California + 2 more

Posted

18 days ago

Salary

$320K - $400K / year

10 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Build, manage, and develop a team of 15+ data scientists across Growth, Risk, Core Product and business expansion to help Mercury make better decisions informed by data. • Influence data analytics and data engineering culture and rigor across different levels, from executives to individual product and operations teams. • Guide the strategy, architecture, and tooling of Mercury’s data infrastructure to enable the entire company to use data effectively.

Job Requirements

10+ years of experience, including 4+ years managing a team of data science or data engineering managers.
Be able to partner with business leaders, GMs, and Executives to ensure that they and their teams have the tools, reporting, and support to consistently make the best data-informed decisions.
Proactively provide advanced analytics and insights to leaders that they may not be seeing.
Be opinionated on the ways to most effectively use data to make decisions.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with data science, machine learning, statistics, financial calculations, and experimentation for commercial applications.
Create an inspiring and empowered work environment for data scientists and data engineers to thrive, including defining clear career paths and identifying individual growth opportunities.
Have experience working with People, Legal, Compliance, and Privacy teams to ensure that we are enforcing best practices and compliant standards for data privacy and security.