VP, Data Product and Operations

CB Insights•New York, NY

4d•$250,000 - $275,000

About The Position

At CB Insights, we deliver predictive intelligence on private companies. Corporate strategy, corporate VC, and business development leaders at the world’s most innovative companies trust us to see their next move first. In public markets, leaders have Bloomberg. In private markets — where the future is built — they’re flying blind. Our platform changes that. It surfaces hidden signals about critical market shifts, uses AI agents to build board-ready outputs, and delivers it all into the apps our customers use every day. The foundation of this system is our data. Non-public and hard-to-get data about private companies, their investors, customers, leaders, and competitors, validated and organized into markets, with proven algorithms that predict future events. We’re looking for a world-class leader to scale it. As Vice President, Data Product & Operations, you’ll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for our portfolio of datasets and algorithms. You will lead the teams responsible for identifying new datasets, growing current ones, and building predictive models.

Requirements

Private markets fluency: You have firsthand experience sourcing investments, conducting due diligence, and analyzing markets. You know the data that drives these workflows.
Operational scale: You’ve built and scaled global teams in financial data platforms or expert networks, with measurable success in driving quality, speed, and coverage.
Track record of new product innovation: You’ve conceived and launched new datasets or data science products that delivered meaningful revenue growth.
Customer obsession: You reveal and solve customer problems with empathy and curiosity. You uncover pain and willingness to pay with sharp discovery methods.
Technical acumen: You are a credible partner to engineering and data science. You understand how models are built, trained, validated, and shipped.
Builder’s bias: You move fast, work iteratively, and ship before things are perfect. You thrive in ambiguity and bring others with you.
Clear communication: You create energy and context for the people around you. You’re a compelling storyteller.
Hands-on leadership: You sweat the details. You dive into the data. You debug problems side-by-side with your team. You go and see with your own eyes.

Responsibilities

Set and execute for what data we collect, how we collect it, and what predictions we build on top.
Lead a global team of 100+ across data product management, data stewardship, survey research, and data extraction.
Drive rigorous operational excellence to improve coverage, quality, and freshness across data about millions of companies, markets, deals, people and more.
Develop creative and scalable strategies for data acquisition across direct contribution, AI-driven extraction, and partnerships.
Partner with Data Science and Engineering to build models that power customer-facing use cases such as predicting future valuations or chances to IPO.
Champion the use of AI to achieve 10x productivity improvements and unlock new capabilities previously out of reach.
Partner with Product Marketing to shape the go-to-market strategy for our data, framing its positioning, pricing, packaging, and differentiation.
Serve as the executive voice of our foundational data with colleagues, customers, and partners.