Director of Data

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Key Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a small but mighty data team while remaining hands-on with data architecture, modeling, technical direction, and analytics Contribute directly as an individual contributor,

Requirements Summary

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means: Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options,

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Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.

Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

We’re hiring a Director of Data to lead Outschool’s Data team that is responsible for both developing infrastructure, pipelines, and tools to power Outschool’s data needs, as well as providing analytics and insights to steer the company toward high-quality, data-informed decisions. This is a critical leadership role that combines data strategy, people leadership, and strong hands-on technical contribution. The ideal candidate will shape Outschool’s data foundations, improve self-serve analytics tools and resources, and build applied AI / ML capabilities while working across the business to find new ways to create impact with data.

Responsibilities

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→Lead, mentor, and grow a small but mighty data team while remaining hands-on with data architecture, modeling, technical direction, and analytics
→Contribute directly as an individual contributor, particularly in data engineering, data infrastructure, and analytics engineering, helping establish high standards for data quality, reliability, and usability
→Lead data strategy and execution across Outschool’s core data systems, including Redshift, dbt, and Opensearch, and self-serve tools such as Omni, Amplitude, and Statsig
→Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and other teams to deliver trusted, decision-ready data resources and analytics
→Collaborate with senior leadership to align on strategy, priorities, metrics, experimentation practices, and long-term roadmap planning
→Foster a culture of data quality, ownership, documentation, self-service, experimentation, and continuous improvement through mentorship and feedback
→Lead adoption of self-serve data practices across the organization, ensuring teams can access and use data effectively without requiring significant centralized support
→Help define and implement modern data practices that improve speed, trust, discoverability, and leverage across analytics, experimentation, and applied AI / ML

10+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, analytics, data science, ML, software engineering, or related technical roles
5+ years of management experience leading data, analytics, engineering, or ML teams, with demonstrated proficiency in performance management, career development, and people logistics
Strong experience with modern data infrastructure and analytics engineering, including SQL, dbt, data modeling, pipeline reliability, and warehouse architecture, as well building as self-serve analytics systems and practices using tools such as Omni, Looker, Amplitude, Statsig, Mode, Hex, or similar platforms
Experience with deep analytics / data science, including influencing stakeholders with data-informed decisions and strategies
Experience balancing data leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contribution, especially in data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics engineering
Proven ability to lead multiple complex data initiatives from planning through execution and adoption
Deep experience leveraging experimentation, A/B testing, analytics, and metrics to inform decisions
Ability to align data strategy and execution with broader business, product, and engineering priorities
Ability to guide ML Engineering work in areas such as search, recommendations, personalization, or applied automation, even if not personally the deepest ML practitioner
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences

Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families
Familiarity with search, discovery, recommendations, or marketplace systems
Experience with Redshift, dbt, Opensearch, Omni, Amplitude, or Statsig
Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company

What We Offer

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Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits. Additional details are provided during the interview process.

For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $220,000 - $275,000 CAD annually.

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

US Tiers

US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City

US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro

US Tier 3: All other cities and states

US Pay Zones

US Tier 1: $260,000 - $357,500

US Tier 2: $221,000 - $303,875

US Tier 3: $195,000 - $268,125

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on March 21, 2024.

Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

✓Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and retirement plans

✓Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance

✓Wellness: Annual wellness stipend, access to coaching & therapy, and pet wellness plans

✓PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies

✓Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and an office in San Francisco. Bay Area-based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup and internet to stay connected no matter where you are.

✓Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes

✓Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs