VP of Data

Stord•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and is on track to double our revenue in the next 18 months. To meet and exceed this target, Stord is strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission. By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale. With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order. Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like AG1, True Classic, Native, Seed Health, quip, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures. The Opportunity Stord is the commerce enablement platform that powers billions of dollars in commerce and millions of orders for some of the world's leading brands. We sit at the intersection of physical operations and software - running fulfillment centers, parcel networks, and the software that ties it all together. Data is the thread that connects every part of that system. We've made serious investment in our data platform over the past year - connecting all our core systems, building a modern cloud-native architecture, and standing up analytics capabilities that are already changing how we make decisions. Now we're ready to take the next step: building a world-class internal data organization and making Stord an AI-first data company. This is a greenfield leadership opportunity for someone who wants to own it. You'll be the first VP of Data, reporting directly to the SVP of Product & Engineering, inheriting a small but capable team, and setting the direction for how data powers Stord's next phase of growth.

Requirements

Technical Leadership
Deep, hands-on familiarity with modern data architecture
Ability to credibly challenge and guide senior engineers on architectural decisions
Experience building platforms that are reliable, scalable, and actually used - not just stood up
AI-first mindset - you have a clear point of view on how to build platforms that LLMs and agentic tools can reason over, not just query, and you're excited by where this is going
People & Organizational Leadership
Proven track record of building a data organization from the ground up. Experience developing a leadership layer. You hire and grow managers and senior ICs, not just manage individual contributors yourself
Known for retaining strong talent and creating an environment where data people do their best work
Leads through clarity and trust. Your team knows what good looks like, why it matters, and how their work connects to the business
Business & Stakeholder Impact
Strong executive presence - you build credibility with business leaders quickly and translate complexity into decisions, not just dashboards
Driven real, attributable business outcomes from data - you can speak specifically to decisions that changed, revenue that moved, or costs that dropped because of work you led
You know the difference between data being available and data being used, and you've closed that gap more than once
High learning agility - we care about excellence and adaptability more than specific industry background

Responsibilities

Data strategy and platform - Define and own Stord's data architecture and roadmap. We have a distributed technology footprint across BigQuery, Fivetran, Datastream, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, and Elasticsearch - you'll rationalize and consolidate this into a coherent, scalable platform.
Team build-out - You'll inherit an existing team of engineers and analysts and grow it into a full-scale data organization spanning data engineering, analytics & BI, and decision science. This is your team to shape.
AI-first data access - Build a platform where every employee and every customer-facing product can access Stord's data naturally and intelligently - not through dashboards and support tickets, but through AI that understands the business. This is central to our product strategy.
Adoption - Ensure the data platform is actually used. Move Stord from data-available to data-driven. This matters as much as the infrastructure itself.
Decision Science - Establish a decision science function that drives operational improvements and cost reductions through proactive, model-driven insights.
Governance and trust - Establish the standards, quality frameworks, and SLAs that make data a reliable foundation for the business.

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