Head of Data

The role

You will own the data platform architecture, reliability, and direction. You will lead the team that builds the platform and partner with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Legal Operations.

What you will do

• Own the target-state data architecture with a sequenced roadmap
• Drive build-vs-buy and tooling decisions
• Own data trust including freshness, correctness, and lineage
• Maintain a single definitional layer across BigQuery, HubSpot, and board decks
• Build governed foundations for AI features
• Lead and grow the team while reviewing hard designs and complex queries

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, including serving as architect of a cloud data platform
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical work experience
• Deep hands-on fluency with BigQuery (or Snowflake/Databricks), dbt, Python, and advanced SQL
• Real production experience with orchestration, idempotency, and testing
• Experience leading engineers formally or as a technical lead
• Comfort in a player-coach role
• Treats access control, PII handling, and auditability as core design requirements

Nice to have

• Marketing attribution or multi-touch modeling across CRM, product, and clickstream data
• Experience building data foundations for ML or LLM-based product features
• Background in legal, healthcare, or fintech
• Early data hire experience at a high-growth company

About the company

Manifest OS is an AI-native company on a mission to replace the billable hour and make legal services more accessible for American businesses and consumers. It has raised a $60M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round, and Quiet Capital.