Director of Data

The role

The Director of Data will lead and grow the data team and build a proprietary data asset. You will report to the CPO and partner across the leadership team to make self-service analytics real.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the data team.
• Make self-service analytics real across First Connect.
• Create a contracts-based partnership with engineering teams producing source data.
• Build a core proprietary data asset.
• Own the data infrastructure roadmap.
• Define how AI gets leveraged across the data stack and analytical workflows.
• Be the data partner the leadership team wants to call.

Required qualifications

• Led a data team inside a startup.
• Startup experience is essential.
• Operate via contracts with source teams.
• Held source teams accountable for data quality.
• Technically broad enough to make warehouse, ELT, and orchestration decisions.
• Fluent in the modern data stack: a major BI tool (Sigma, Looker, Mode, Hex), dbt, Postgres or Snowflake or BigQuery or Redshift, ingestion tooling like Fivetran.
• Have a real point of view on AI in data work.
• Connect data investments to revenue, cost, retention, and competitive position.

Nice to have

• Insurance, Insurtech, or marketplace experience.
• Direct experience standing up a modern BI platform.

About the company

First Connect is an insurance marketplace and aggregator. It connects thousands of independent insurance agencies with a wide network of carriers, MGAs, and wholesalers.