Director of Data

Homebound is on a mission to make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to build a home using technology. Created by an experienced team of construction, real estate, design, and technology experts, Homebound is transforming the residential construction industry by improving the costly and inefficient process of building a home. 

We’ve created an entirely new way to build homes with technology powering every stage from start to finish to provide a seamless experience for our customers. Homeowners across the country can choose where they want to live, select a home plan that’s perfect for them, then personalize and buy it, all online. Homebound has raised $150M in capital from leading venture capitalists like Google, Khosla, Thrive Ventures, and we’re scaling quickly in places like California, Texas, Colorado and Florida. Come build your future with us.

Homebound is proud to be named one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2023.

Role Overview

The Head of Data will be responsible for creating business impact and enterprise value from the wide breadth of proprietary, connected data generated on our platform.  This includes unlocking new insights, recommendations, and actions across the end to end construction lifecycle. In the near future, with growth of builders, trades, customers and investors on the platform, the data combined with external and third party data sets, has the potential to fundamentally shape the homebuilding industry. This individual and their team will work closely with cross-functional groups such as operations, procurement, product, sales, and pricing teams to truly understand both the data that the business units need, and how the data platform holistically drives value for Homebound.  On a daily basis, this individual will also be responsible for data definition, data management, governance, data modeling, infrastructure, pipelines and analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Data Strategy: Define the overall data strategy and structure for the organization. Collaborate with Operations, Pricing and Product team to define business data, metrics and use cases and execute a strategy to make the right data available at the right time. 

• Data Analytics: Analyze and interpret the data to recommend business action and influence the platform roadmap. 

• Data Democratization: Increase data literacy, access, and data-driven thinking throughout the broader homebound organization.

• Data Governance: Ensure high quality data is maintained through data standardization, metric definition and establishing source of truth on data. 

• Team Leadership: Lead a high-performing team of data and BI analysts.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field

• 10+ years of relevant leadership and work experience in data science and analytics

• 10+ years proficiency in modern data analysis tools (SQL, Python, Airflow etc)

• 5+ years using modern, cloud-based architectures, ideally AWS.

• 5+ years Experience with data visualization using Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. 

Homebound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Homebound considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.