Outschool

Outschool

Director of Data

Remote (U.S · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$275kDetected 27 days ago
SQLElasticsearchRedshiftMachine LearningdbtData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationA/B TestingStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • This is a critical leadership role that combines data strategy, people leadership, and strong hands-on technical contribution.
  • Contribute directly as an individual contributor, particularly in data engineering, data infrastructure, and analytics engineering, helping establish high standards for data quality, reliability, and usability.
  • Foster a culture of data quality, ownership, documentation, self-service, experimentation, and continuous improvement through mentorship and feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a small but mighty data team while remaining hands-on with data architecture, modeling, technical direction, and analytics.
  • Lead data strategy and execution across Outschool's core data systems, including Redshift, dbt, and Opensearch, and self-serve tools such as Omni, Amplitude, and Statsig.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and other teams to deliver trusted, decision-ready data resources and analytics.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to align on strategy, priorities, metrics, experimentation practices, and long-term roadmap planning.
  • Lead adoption of self-serve data practices across the organization, ensuring teams can access and use data effectively without requiring significant centralized support.
  • Help define and implement modern data practices that improve speed, trust, discoverability, and leverage across analytics, experimentation, and applied AI / ML.

Requirements

  • Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company
  • Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise.

Skills

  • Experience with deep analytics / data science, including influencing stakeholders with data-informed decisions and strategies.
  • Deep experience leveraging experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, and metrics to inform decisions.
  • Ability to align data strategy and execution with broader business, product, and engineering priorities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
  • Other Considerations:
  • Familiarity with search, discovery, recommendations, or marketplace systems
  • Experience with Redshift, dbt, Opensearch, Omni, Amplitude, or Statsig

Compensation

  • Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living.
  • In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits.
  • Additional details are provided during the interview process.
  • For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $220,000 - $275,000 CAD annually.
  • This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
  • US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City

Benefits

  • Generous PTO and family leave policies
  • Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.

Company info

  • Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning.
  • In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners.
  • Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education.
  • By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
  • We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017.
  • Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019.
  • Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community.
  • We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
  • Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard.
  • Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers.
  • We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission.
  • We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.
  • We're hiring a Director of Data to lead Outschool's Data team, responsible for both developing infrastructure, pipelines, and tools to power Outschool's data needs, as well as providing analytics and insights to steer the company toward high-quality, data-informed decisions.

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