Data Lead

The Opportunity

We're hiring a Data Lead to own Stepful's data function — the infrastructure, analytics, and insights that power decisions across the company, from student outcomes to marketing spend. You'll lead a team of three data analysts and engineers while staying deeply hands-on: writing code, building models, and shipping analyses alongside your team.

This is a hybrid opportunity based out of our NYC office, requiring three days/week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in office.

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

Bonus Points

• If You've built or scaled a data function at an early or growth-stage startup
• If You've worked with marketing attribution or funnel analytics at scale
• If You've worked in EdTech, healthcare, or another mission-driven industry