Hiring: Head of Data Company: RentSpree Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:14:47 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : BigQuery, Data Warehouse, LLM, Product Strategy, Python, SQL, dbt About the job Experience: •7+ years in data, including 3+ years directly leading an analytics or data science team. Hiring, reviewing work, setting the quality bar. Ideally at a Series A–D startup where you had to build the plane while flying it. Required Skills: •Partner with Executives and the Product team to drive product strategy through data. Translate company vision into the data capabilities needed to support it, and invest ahead of the product roadmap to keep our Data Platform modern •Own the strategic data asset & ML roadmap: take our early data-asset initiatives from keystone use cases to a real architecture decision, and decide where ML earns its keep across pricing, lead scoring, propensity, and screening risk •Build the GTM data foundation: define and own the unified customer profiles, segmentation, and journey tracking that Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success all run on, and make sure it reaches the systems they actually work in - campaign tools, the CRM, and in-product surfaces •Own how we measure impact: set the company-wide standard for the experimentation lifecycle, from design and success-metric definition through causal readout, balancing speed with rigor and long-term hygiene •Lead the Analytics team directly: manage our Business Analysts and Data Scientists, review their work and code quality, set the analytical rigor bar, prioritize the request queue, and guide how they scope and initiate their own projects •Own Analytics Self-serve: continue improving our semantic layer and AI-powered self-serve tooling that keep routine requests off your analysts' plates, and drive adoption across our business verticals, GTM, and Finance — treating adoption as the deliverable, not just the tooling •Lead Data Engineering through our Data Engineering Manager, who owns our Bronze/Silver/Gold pipeline architecture, warehouse cost and governance, and platform reliability •Scale the Data organization: set the governance and quality standards that let us grow safely, and build the team through hiring, coaching, and career development across all data disciplines Qualifications: •Background in fintech, proptech, or real estate technology, or with property/marketplace data specifically •Own it end to end. Drive projects from idea to execution. Take pride in the work. Do what it takes. •Communicate like a teammate. Direct, candid, and respectful. Give feedback well, receive it well, and build trust through transparency. •Hold a high bar. Think critically. Stay curious. Keep looking for ways to do it better. •Stay adaptable. Anticipate challenges, take initiative, and bring resourcefulness to whatever comes next. •Be audacious, learn loudly: Take the big swings our mission demands, treat every outcome as impact or a lesson, and share what you learn openly so the whole company grows stronger. •Debate well, commit fully. Push back constructively, contribute your point of view, then align and move together. •AI is a core skill. Use AI tools to move faster and think sharper. Compensation: •$250,000 - $280,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!