Founding Data Lead

• Build from Scratch: Establish, scale, and own the data analytics function, infrastructure, and metrics frameworks across the entire organization.
• Cross-Stack Data Mapping: Integrate disparate data sources across onchain activities, product usage, financial transactions, and operations into a cohesive, centralized data model.
• Drive Business Insights: Deepen customer understanding by transforming raw behavioral data into strategic insights that influence product roadmaps and business growth.
• Enable Self-Service Analytics: Design, deploy, and maintain intuitive dashboards and reporting structures (e.g., Metabase, Looker) to empower cross-functional teams to make rapid, independent, data-driven decisions.
• Engineering Partnership: Collaborating closely with the engineering team to optimize data pipelines, implement product analytics tracking, and elevate the capabilities of the data stack.
• Executive Communication: Synthesize complex data findings into clear, high-impact recommendations for the executive leadership team.

Do you have experience in Tooling?, * Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data engineering, with a strong preference for individuals who have served as an early data hire within a high-growth startup environment.

• Advanced SQL: Exceptional mastery of SQL, with the ability to seamlessly construct complex queries utilizing advanced joins, window functions, CTEs, and subqueries.
• BI & Dashboarding: Proven experience building and scaling dashboards and metrics frameworks within platforms like Metabase, Looker, or similar tooling.
• Data Modeling: Demonstrated ability to translate highly ambiguous, messy business contexts into clean, structured, and scalable data models.
• Big Data Tooling: Familiarity working with high-volume event data and processing tools such as Spark, Databricks, ClickHouse, or equivalent technologies.
• Orchestration & Product Analytics: Working knowledge of data orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and proficiency with product analytics platforms (e.g., Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, Heap).
• Communication: Outstanding communication skills, with a track record of presenting clear data stories and driving strategic recommendations at the executive level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Web3/Blockchain Expertise: Direct experience handling blockchain data, including onchain indexing, subgraphs, multi-chain analytics, or DeFi protocols.
• Domain Knowledge: A professional background within fintech, digital payments, or institutional financial services.

• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunity to shape the foundational data culture and infrastructure of a high-growth, well-funded startup. Collaborative environment working alongside a high-performance team of finance and crypto-native pioneers.