Job Description:
As the Director of Data you will lead our data strategy, overseeing the development and implementation of data products, governance, and analytics. Reporting to the CEO and collaborating closely with the CTO and Product team, you will drive the entire product lifecycle and balance immediate needs with long-term scalable growth.
Your role involves simplifying implementation, scaling operations, accelerating launch cycles, and enhancing our products through ML models and AI applications. You will advance data practices, mentor team members, and contribute to building a world-class company in the Fintech sector.
Responsibilities:
- Act as data captain (lead and persist all the time) within the company, driving our data strategy, including the development and implementation of data products, data management, governance, and data analytics
- Key member of the senior leadership team reporting to CEO and intimate collaboration with CTO and Product to complete the PLC Product Life Cycle)
- Data lifecycle glue, and when required, a builder that can apply frameworks that balance the short-term needs with the need to build reusable core capabilities for scalable growth over the long term
- Exceptional ability to reduce implementation complexity, scale, and mature delivery operations and accelerate launch cycles
- Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product through ML models and applications, and drive ML-modeling roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
- Drive the development and deployment of machine learning models and AI applications to enhance our products.
- Contribute towards advancing the Data domain at the company, including but not limited to driving data best practices (e.g. analysis, goaling, experimentation, machine learning), improving analytical processes, scaling knowledge and tools, and mentoring other data players.
What moves you and what will you do?
- You enjoy launching new products and the challenge of early-stage for the opportunity it affords to have a tangible impact
- You are driven by executing data discovery cycles founded on an iterative product development strategy
- You aim to set a strong data foundation as an enabler of a sustained competitive advantage for an organization
- You want to work with a strong senior leadership team that has an edge around one of the largest problems limiting the growth of Fintechs in LatAm
- You want to lead others, act as a coach, and have a driver's seat in constructing a world-class company
Requirements:
- + 7 years in data management, governance, and analytics
- Experience with delivering global or regional programs for fraud prevention products or dynamic credit underwriting models
- Experience with Python, AWS, Cloud Providers, Jupyter Notebooks, and SQL.
- Experience in building, operating, and optimizing large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, high-performance, scalable real-time processing architecture, analytics infrastructure, visualizations, data platforms, advanced analytics management and implementation
- Experience managing Data teams at scale, including data classification, lineage, quality, metadata ownership and management, provisioning, usage, retention, and change management.
- Experience with demand management, QBRs, and OKRs, the operational cadence of dashboards, and periodic business reviews for KPIs to drive decision-making.
- Early-stage experience, with an appetite to transform the unknown through discovery into solutions
- Being based in Mexico is a plus.
Perks
Labor Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (flexible based on results)
Modality: Full Time, Remote, Contractor or Payroll
Salary: $8,500 to $10,000 USD monthly
Performance bonus equivalent to 1-2x monthly amount
ESOP grant equivalent to 2-3x monthly amount
Monthly stipend for medical insurance and utilities
3 weeks of paid leave
2 weeks of paternity leave
Work from anywhere!
Structured Independent Development Plan (IDP) and on-the-job training
Business travel stipend (if required)
About the Company
Identity risk is a massive problem that halts progress for society. Humans require trust to transact and as we increasingly do it online, there is no sure-fire way to ensure that behind the screen there is a real person and that the person is who they say they’re. The problem is getting worse as new threats emerge daily and AI turbo-charges fraudsters.
Managing identity risk is about building a complex jigsaw puzzle out of fragmented data to accurately construct someone’s digital identity. In LatAm, data vendors offer piecemeal solutions that fall short. This is why it’s not uncommon to see companies in the region managing 6-8 vendors and multiple sets of hard-coded rules, manual review processes, and identity fraud rates above global averages.
We build tools and develop intelligence to enable companies to trust digital identities, Our north star is to help customers achieve faster and more secure growth by seamlessly and accurately stopping fraud and complying with regulatory obligations.
Location: Remote in Mexico or LATAM