VP, Data

Title: VP, Data

Location: United States

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading digital destination for growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectul, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn more about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

We are a remote first company, with team members across the United States, spanning multiple time zones. However, the executive team has prioritized meeting in our Emeryville office monthly. We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together and this allows us deeper collaboration and business alignment as an executive team. As this role sits on that team, there is an expectation that the role will either reside locally in the Bay Area or be open to travel to the Bay Area 2-4 days a month. Your direct team will be remote most of the time, with the exception of our department and company offsites that happen two times a year. These offsites are expected of employees and executives and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

What the Role Is

The Vice President of Data is the executive leader of the data team at Babylist. You will lead an existing team of 12 and help grow it to a team of 20 or more data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers. This is a leadership role responsible for owning data and data systems as well as our culture and process of using data across the organization.

As part of the executive team and reporting to the CEO, your expertise will be essential in unlocking the full potential of our vast data sets, driving innovation, and fueling our continued growth. Ultimately, we are looking for someone to raise the bar of leadership and strategic decision making so we can better serve the millions of registrants and gift givers who use Babylist every year!

Who You Are

• 15+ years of leadership experience in a high-growth, complex consumer business owning all aspects of data (product, marketing, operations and finance)
• You have built, owned, and inspired high performing data teams of 20+
• You have a history of taking ownership of difficult strategic or organizational problems and delivering solutions
• Strong technical expertise in modern data systems. Pragmatic understanding of ML/AI and how data and tech can be used to drive business results
• You understand how to weigh competing priorities, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders, driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching business priorities

How You Will Make An Impact

• Design, lead and scale the data organization to align with business priorities and needs
• Work closely with executive leadership and individual department heads on overall company strategy and data priorities
• Encourage a balanced approach to decision making that synthesizes data into a complete picture of the short-term results and long-term impact
• Create a leadership culture that values learning, development, coaching, and growth. You think proactively about org structure, hiring, and team placement to set your teams and the company up for maximum success
• Ensure your team has the skills that it needs to effectively deliver today’s roadmap, while also scaling the team’s expertise to grow with the company
• Turn business issues into the right research questions; pursue and guide the best research approach including qualitative and quantitative insight programs that will create excellent, impactful insights that develop and move strategy forward and empower decision making
• Partner with key stakeholders (including product, marketing, finance, customer service, and engineering) to meet data needs and continuously improve our insight-creation capabilities
• Drive a deeper understanding of our users, business and industry to serve as a trusted partner that provides data-driven insights to inform strategy and aid in decision making

Our Tech Stack

• Snowflake
• DBT
• Sigma
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Airflow
• Python

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We believe in exceptional management
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

The estimated pay range for this role is $285,600.00 – $355,572.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

If your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply.

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