Alternative Payments

Alternative Payments

Head of Data

New York · Senior

Work authorization required$175k-$200kDetected 91 days ago
PythonVector DatabasesMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGProduct ManagementProduct StrategySalesforceCRMAccountingZendeskLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationAccounts Payable

About the role

  • Starting with MSPs, we've spent five years perfecting accounts receivable, and we're now expanding into accounts payable, AI-powered analytics, and beyond.
  • We believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, deep collaboration, and a shared obsession with customer impact.
  • Alternative Payments sits on a substantial and strategically valuable data asset, accounting data, payment data, and rich operational data from across the business.

Responsibilities

  • A key challenge of this role is balancing reactive work (data quality, stakeholder requests, system syncs) against executing the longer-term data strategy. You will own:
  • Own the full data infrastructure and architecture: pipelines, data models, gold/silver/bronze layer design, and real-time vs. batch tradeoffs.
  • Develop a clear, actionable data strategy and own the process of getting buy-in across leadership, engineering, and product to execute it.
  • Lead complex data projects requiring entity resolution and enrichment at scale, using deterministic rules, fuzzy matching, and ML-based approaches to unify multi-source data
  • prototype and implement predictive models that leverage unified datasets.
  • Move the organization beyond dashboards toward self-serve analytics, insight generation, and data-driven recommendations that are accessible to humans, agents, and partners.
  • Own data across both product data (what users do in the platform) and operational data (Salesforce, Zendesk, internal tooling), ensuring both feed into a coherent intelligence layer.
  • Own the data product roadmap for external-facing analytics from scoping and architecture through to delivery, coordinating across data engineering and product to ship partner-facing features that surface clean, structured, and actionable insights.
  • Ensure the right data is available, clean, and structured so the AI engineering function can build and ship AI features confidently.
  • Build toward a data layer that is AI-queryable: structure data so it can be consumed by agents, embedding models, and LLM-powered retrieval systems and find the right balance between unstructured and structured data.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics, or a closely related field, with at least 2 years in a senior leadership role.
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Proven experience with ML-based data enrichment and large data sets, and entity resolution at a meaningful scale, you have real opinions about where deterministic approaches break down and where ML is required.

Nice to have

  • Experience at a fintech, payments, or data-rich vertical SaaS company
  • familiarity with PSA, accounting, or payments data is a strong plus.
  • Track record working across both product data (user behavior in a platform) and operational data (CRM, ticketing, internal tooling).
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or structured data prep for LLM-based retrieval.
  • Comfort working in fast-paced, start-up environments where the data strategy is still being defined.
  • The range displayed on each job posting reflects the approximate total target compensation for the position.

Skills

  • Applying to Alternative Payments

Compensation

  • Competitive salary tailored to your experience, skills, and expertise.

Benefits

  • The base salary range for this role is $175k - $200k, plus equity.
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including relevant skills, experience, education/training.
  • Equity opportunities so you can share in our growth and success.
  • Unlimited PTO and flexibility when you need it the most.
  • Yearly learning & development stipend to help you grow and do your best work.
  • We believe in shared learning, open communication, and building each other up.

Company info

  • closing the loop on money movement and laying the foundation for a platform that will reshape how service businesses operate financially.
  • We're growing fast, thinking big, and building a global team that wants to be part of something that lasts.
  • If you're energized by real problems, real customers, and real impact, we want to hear from you!
  • As a scaling start-up, there's a lot to be done and initiative is key.
  • When one of us grows, we all do.
  • Want to see what we're actually building?
  • We made a short video so you don't have to take our word for it.
  • Get a glimpse of our product, our people, and the problems we're solving, then decide if it sounds like your kind of place.
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