Head of Data

Mood•New York, NY

2d•Remote

About The Position

As Head of Data, you'll own Mood's data function end to end. You'll lead the team while staying hands-on in the work, not just directing it. Your job is to turn data into decisions that improve profitability. You'll prioritize work based on its impact on revenue, cost, and risk—and say no to the rest. You'll write and review SQL and models and work hands-on with AI tools, including AI coding tools, to operate with the leverage of a much larger team. If you'd rather manage from a distance or solve most problems by adding people, this role won't suit you. If you want to own the whole function, keep your hands in the code, step up without being asked, and see your analysis change what the business does, it will.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in data or analytics, including 3+ years leading a data function or team.
You've written SQL and worked hands-on in a modern cloud data warehouse within the last two years.
You've built data models using dbt, Dataform, or a similar framework, as well as data pipelines.
You use AI tools every day in your hands-on data work, including to write and review code, with appropriate review processes and access guardrails in place.
You have a track record of data work that influenced revenue or cost decisions, and you can quantify the impact.
You've made build-vs-buy decisions you can defend and significantly reduced tooling or infrastructure costs, with measurable savings.
You manage up effectively and communicate clearly with executives.
You turn complex analysis into clear charts and concise recommendations that leadership acts on.
You can move easily between very different types of work, from attribution and experimentation to dashboards and data infrastructure.
You reason through unfamiliar problems from first principles rather than relying on assumptions.
You're comfortable leading a small team while remaining hands-on in the technical work.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a regulated industry such as hemp/cannabis, alcohol, or supplements, particularly with marketing attribution and tracking under regulatory constraints.
Analytics experience in an e-commerce, DTC, or similar consumer business.
Experience with Shopify event tracking, especially on a headless storefront.
Experience with identity stitching, attribution, MMM, or incrementality testing.
Experience with semantic layers such as Cube.
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Experience working with finance data, including reconciliation and inventory.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Roadmap: Determine what the team works on, in what order, and what it turns down. You'll establish how requests come in and get ranked and keep leadership and the team clear on priorities, tradeoffs, and capacity.
Warehouse & Pipelines: Own BigQuery, Dataform models, and ingestion from the systems the business runs on.
Reporting & Analytics: Own the dashboards and analysis teams use to make decisions.
Measurement & Attribution: Own the in-house attribution model, incrementality tests, and the data behind server-side conversion tracking, built with Marketing and kept sound as the rules on tracking change.
Data Quality: Catch bad data before it reaches a report or a decision.
Access & Governance: Determine which people and AI agents can access which data, including sensitive customer data.