Head of Data Products

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November 21

🌽 Illinois – Remote

Although this job is listed in Illinois, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $150k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

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YCharts is an investment research platform that enables smarter investments and better client communications, serving a client base of more than 5,000 RIAs, financial planners, and asset managers who oversee more than $750 billion in assets. YCharts helps investing professionals easily demonstrate their value to clients and prospects with tools that enhance client engagements and simplify often complex financial topics using visuals. A leading financial research platform, YCharts offers comprehensive data, powerful visualization tools, and advanced analytics for equity, mutual fund, and ETF data and analysis. As a modern, user-friendly platform for security research, portfolio construction, idea generation, and market monitoring, YCharts enables vast time savings and serves as an affordable alternative to terminal-based tools.

51 - 200 employees

💰 $6M Series C on 2015-05

📋 Description

• Define and execute the company’s forward-looking data strategy. • Lead evaluation, negotiation, and management of third-party data licensing relationships. • Oversee data acquisition, normalization, quality assurance, and governance processes. • Develop and maintain data products, including feeds, APIs, derived calculations, scores, and analytics. • Partner with Engineering teams to build scalable data infrastructure and pipelines. • Own client-facing data integration capabilities, including imports, uploads, and external system connectivity. • Manage and grow the Data Products team by developing talent and driving accountability. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading data or data-adjacent product teams. • Hands-on experience evaluating and integrating third-party financial datasets. • Experience working with financial data delivery methods (API, FTP/SFTP, data warehouses, vendor MCPs). • Proven ability to create or refine derived analytics (metrics, portfolios, scoring frameworks, calculations, etc.). • Strong collaboration skills with Engineering teams. • Financial data domains: Equities, Funds, Financial Statements, Fixed Income, Indexes, Portfolios, Economic data, Private Markets, Alternatives. • Understanding of core database concepts and modern data platforms. • Familiarity with the financial data provider landscape (e.g. S&P, Morningstar, LSEG, MSCI, ICE, Nasdaq, EDI). • 10+ years of experience in financial data, analytics, investment research, or related fields. • 3+ years of leadership or team management experience. • Strong analytical, strategic planning, and communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance. • 401(k) match to support your financial future. • Opportunities for internal mobility and cross-functional collaboration. • Flexible time off, vacation days, sick days, and a celebration day. • Paid parental leave to support work-life balance. • Professional development stipend to help you grow in your career. • Hybrid work schedule with flexibility to work both in-office and remotely. • Summer hours so you can enjoy more sunshine. • A generous holiday schedule with company paid holidays that give you planned and meaningful rest throughout the year. • Recognition programs to celebrate contributions and milestones. • Modern, centrally located offices stocked with premium snacks, coffee, beverages and weekly lunch credits to fuel your day. • Regular team events, celebrations, and company-wide gatherings that keep our culture connected and collaborative.