Updater - VP, Data
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform leadership, including prior VP / Head of Data Engineering scope (or equivalent) • Proven ownership of data systems directly tied to revenue, billing, or financial outcomes • Deep expertise in modern data architectures (batch + streaming, warehouses, orchestration, modeling) • Comfortable doing vendor evaluations, build vs buy decisions, and success implementing infrastructure projects. • Strong command of data quality, lineage, observability, and governance — with pragmatic execution • Experience stewarding data lifecycle with ML models, both traditional supervised learning as well as LLM-based models • Experience designing systems that accommodate ambiguity, delayed signals, and evolving business rules • Ability to drive clarity and alignment where metrics are contested and incentives may compete • Strong understanding of attribution, leading vs. lagging indicators, and decision-enabling data principles • Clear judgment that timely, decision-enabling truth is more valuable than theoretical perfection • Experience in affiliate marketing, marketplaces, fintech, adtech, or other revenue-complex environments strongly preferred
Responsibilities
• Data Strategy & Architecture - Own the long-term data strategy in partnership with Engineering, Finance, Product, and Executive Leadership. Define and evolve the end-to-end data architecture across acquisition, transactions, fulfillment, revenue recognition, and lifecycle events. Design scalable, auditable systems that accurately model complex, multi-role KPIs while balancing speed, accuracy, and cost. • Data Strategy & Architecture • Current stack includes Snowflake, Looker, Python, Postgres, and SQL Server. • Revenue & Risk Intelligence - Build data systems that accurately models affiliate revenue-share agreements, confirmations, cancellations, and adjustments. Enable early detection of fraud and performance anomalies before they materially impact margin. Partner with Finance and cross-functional leaders to establish canonical revenue metrics and shared KPI definitions. • Revenue & Risk Intelligence • Time-to-Insight - Reduce the latency between business events and actionable insight. Enable faster experimentation, channel optimization, and partner performance analysis through reliable pipelines and tooling that support both real-time visibility and deep historical analysis. • Time-to-Insight • Leadership & Team Management - Build and scale a high-performing data engineering organization grounded in technical excellence, data quality, and operational rigor. Foster a collaborative, high-ownership culture that empowers teams to do their best work, operate effectively in ambiguity, and deliver durable systems that accelerate business impact. • Leadership & Team Management • Cross-Functional Influence - Translate business ambiguity into technical clarity — and technical complexity into business understanding. Clearly articulate data definitions, tradeoffs, and system constraints. Serve as a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, Finance, and Executive Leadership in driving high-impact decisions. • Cross-Functional Influence
Benefits
• This posting is anticipated to remain open until 5/8/2026. The new hire salary range for this position is $275,000 - $310,000 annually. Factors which may affect the starting pay within this range include skills, experience, and other qualifications aligned with Updater's internal leveling guidelines. • Updater is a leading technology platform helping major brands acquire and retain customers at scale. We are on a mission to power millions of complex transactions through intelligent, autonomous systems. By combining deep integrations, real-world data, and purpose-built AI agents, we’re transforming fragmented purchasing workflows into seamless, automated experiences – freeing businesses and consumers from operational friction and enabling a new standard of speed, accuracy, and scale. • Updater has raised over $450 million from leading investors, including SoftBank Capital, Vista Credit Partners, IA Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Second Century Ventures (the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®), and more. For more information, please visit www.updater.com.
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