Mercury is hiring a
Director of Data

Summary

Join us as a Director of Data to help drive Mercury's success by building and managing a team of data scientists and data engineers, influencing data analytics and engineering culture, and guiding the strategy and architecture of Mercury's data infrastructure.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years of experience, including 4+ years managing a team of data science or data engineering managers
• Be able to partner with business leaders, GMs, and Executives to ensure that they and their teams have the tools, reporting, and support to consistently make the best data-informed decisions. Proactively provide advanced analytics and insights to leaders that they may not be seeing
• Be opinionated on the ways to most effectively use data to make decisions
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with data science, machine learning, statistics, financial calculations, and experimentation for commercial applications
• Create an inspiring and empowered work environment for data scientists and data engineers to thrive, including defining clear career paths and identifying individual growth opportunities
• Have experience working with People, Legal, Compliance, and Privacy teams to ensure that we are enforcing best practices and compliant standards for data privacy and security

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and develop a team of 25+ data scientists and data engineers across Growth, Risk, Core Product and business expansion to help Mercury make better decisions informed by data
• Influence data analytics and data engineering culture and rigor across different levels, from executives to individual product and operations teams. This will range from product analytics for our core products, to advanced statistical methods for risk and credit underwriting
• Guide the strategy, architecture, and tooling of Mercury’s data infrastructure to enable the entire company to use data effectively

Benefits

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits