Data Lead

What you'll do:

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three data analysts and engineers, setting the standard for rigor and craft
Own Stepful's data platform end to end — pipelines, warehouse, transformation layer, and BI tooling — and its reliability and scalability
Define and maintain the company's core metrics across the student journey (enrollment, engagement, completion, certification, placement) and business performance (CAC, LTV, retention)
Build dashboards and self-serve analytics that put trustworthy data in every team's hands
Partner with Growth and Product on experimentation — design, instrumentation, and analysis of A/B tests
Deliver deep-dive analyses that shape strategic decisions, from program design to budget allocation
Stay hands-on: write production SQL and Python, review your team's work, and take on the hardest technical problems yourself
Establish data governance and quality practices that scale with the company

What you'll bring:

7+ years of data experience across analytics and data engineering, with at least 2+ years managing a team
Proven success as a player-coach — you set direction and manage people while still shipping your own work
Expert-level SQL and strong Python, with hands-on experience across the modern data stack (e.g., dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery, Airflow, Looker/Metabase)
Strong product and business sense — you connect data work to outcomes, not just deliverables
Experience designing and analyzing experiments in a high-growth environment
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to make complex findings clear to non-technical stakeholders