VP, Data

🕒 March 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $275k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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Updater

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

👥 B2C

🏢 Enterprise

🏪 Marketplace

💰 $215M Debt Financing on 2022-05

B2C • Enterprise • Marketplace

Updater is a company that provides a comprehensive suite of tools and services to streamline the moving process for individuals and businesses. Their platform helps users organize their move by setting reminders, accessing checklists, and securing necessary services like internet, TV, utilities, and insurance. Updater collaborates with moving companies, real estate agents, and multifamily property managers to ensure a seamless experience for users. They offer a unique marketplace for moving-related products and services, enabling businesses to integrate Updater's tools to enhance their offering. Updater aims to reduce the stress associated with moving and make the process as smooth as possible.

📋 Description

• Data Strategy & Architecture - Own the long-term data strategy in partnership with Engineering, Finance, Product, and Executive Leadership. Define and evolve the end-to-end data architecture across acquisition, transactions, fulfillment, revenue recognition, and lifecycle events. Design scalable, auditable systems that accurately model complex, multi-role KPIs while balancing speed, accuracy, and cost. • Revenue & Risk Intelligence - Build data systems that accurately models affiliate revenue-share agreements, confirmations, cancellations, and adjustments. Enable early detection of fraud and performance anomalies before they materially impact margin. Partner with Finance and cross-functional leaders to establish canonical revenue metrics and shared KPI definitions. • Time-to-Insight - Reduce the latency between business events and actionable insight. Enable faster experimentation, channel optimization, and partner performance analysis through reliable pipelines and tooling that support both real-time visibility and deep historical analysis. • Leadership & Team Management - Build and scale a high-performing data engineering organization grounded in technical excellence, data quality, and operational rigor. Foster a collaborative, high-ownership culture that empowers teams to do their best work, operate effectively in ambiguity, and deliver durable systems that accelerate business impact. • Cross-Functional Influence - Translate business ambiguity into technical clarity — and technical complexity into business understanding. Clearly articulate data definitions, tradeoffs, and system constraints. Serve as a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, Finance, and Executive Leadership in driving high-impact decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform leadership, including prior VP / Head of Data Engineering scope (or equivalent) • Proven ownership of data systems directly tied to revenue, billing, or financial outcomes • Deep expertise in modern data architectures (batch + streaming, warehouses, orchestration, modeling) • Comfortable doing vendor evaluations, build vs buy decisions, and success implementing infrastructure projects. • Strong command of data quality, lineage, observability, and governance — with pragmatic execution • Experience stewarding data lifecycle with ML models, both traditional supervised learning as well as LLM-based models • Experience designing systems that accommodate ambiguity, delayed signals, and evolving business rules • Ability to drive clarity and alignment where metrics are contested and incentives may compete • Strong understanding of attribution, leading vs. lagging indicators, and decision-enabling data principles • Clear judgment that timely, decision-enabling truth is more valuable than theoretical perfection • Experience in affiliate marketing, marketplaces, fintech, adtech, or other revenue-complex environments strongly preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • Flexible PTO • 13 paid company holidays annually • Updater Stock Options • 401(k) with employer match • Wellbeing Subsidy • One Medical membership • Virtual on-demand healthcare through Teladoc and Talkspace • Flexible spending account (FSA) • Health savings account (HSA) • Supplemental Short & Long Term Disability Insurance • Supplemental Life Insurance • Paid Parental Leave