Head of Analytics Platform

As the leader joining our Analytics Platform team, you will lead the team responsible for the systems that enable company-wide data science and analytics. By implementing sufficient instrumentation, designing intuitive data models and building batch/streaming pipelines, your team will allow for mechanical investigation and optimization of the business. By developing self-serve tools, your team will empower executives, PMs, Ops to understand company performance at a glance and uncover insights to support decision making. Finally, by building capabilities for forecasting, alerting, and experimentation, your team will enable more, better, and faster decisions.

Role Responsibilities:

Have company-wide impact and executive-level visibility as you build out our data and analytics platform
Hire and coach a team of 5+
Lead your team and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement a new data architecture from the ground up to instrument Opendoor’s products and services
Tackle unique challenges from combining a variety of online and offline data, not just big data
Expand team’s scope as we quickly grow the team
Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics leaders to instrument our products and services, provide end-to-end visibility into business performance and empower personalized product experience for our customers
Manage and coach a team of 5+ software engineers and data engineers to architect a company-wide analytics platform to drive decision making
Collaborate with Product Managers and Business Analytics to design new data models and enable self-serve data exploration
Build metric forecasting and alerting services to perform proactive monitoring
Work with Data Science to extend our experimentation platform to support Bayesian testing and online learning

Skills Needed:

6+ years of experience as a data or software engineer
Additional 3+ years managing a data or software engineering team
Exceptional system design skills including breaking down complex problems into functional components and building for scale
Passionate about data and democratizing learnings
Strong people management skills and ability to grow the team
Expertise in applying software design principles with a focus on craftsmanship
Ability to understand the needs of stakeholders, translate those into business requirements, and architect systems that can accommodate them over time

Remote roles in the US are available in all states EXCEPT Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, or any US Territories.

Compensation:

The base salary range for this position in Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, and New Jersey is $256,000 - $352,000/yr, and in California and New York City is $284,000 - $390,500 yr. Base salary may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 12 paid holidays per year, medical/dental/vision insurance, basic life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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