management
Posted 4 days agoVice President of Data
at ButterflyMX
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Create mechanisms that reveal emerging risks and opportunities before they become obvious in monthly or quarterly reporting.
- - Design data experiences that are intuitive, discoverable, and easier to use than informal alternatives.
- - Build a data organization in which AI agents are a primary working tool, not an experiment or side project.
Requirements
- OUR MISSION ButterflyMX is on a mission to empower people to open and manage doors & gates from a smartphone.
- As a distributed, primarily remote workforce, we’re looking for more intelligent, passionate, collaborative, ai-forward, and down-to-earth individuals to join our growing team.
- ROLE OVERVIEW ButterflyMX is looking for a world-class Vice President of Data to lead a company-wide data transformation and establish data as one of our most important operating advantages.
- We have invested in the right foundational technologies, including Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Sigma, and modern AI platforms.
- Executives, operators, dashboards, workflows, and AI agents will use the same authoritative data products.
- They will measure it by the quality and speed of decisions, the adoption and trust of data products, and the degree to which data multiplies the effectiveness of our people.
- We need a hands-on executive who has built at our scale before, can challenge architecture decisions, understands the business deeply, and remains close enough to the work to inspect models, write code, prototype agents, and help solve difficult problems personally.
- - You are interested in decisions and economics, not just SQL and dashboards.
- TECHNICALLY CREDIBLE - You possess deep knowledge of modern data architecture, engineering, analytics engineering, governance, quality, and business intelligence.
- AGENT-FLUENT - You use AI agents as a normal part of your own daily work. - You have personally built and shipped at least one production agent that created meaningful value. - You understand agent architecture, tool use, context, evaluation, observability, permissions, failure modes, and human oversight. - You can identify workflows that are genuinely improved by agents and reject those that are not. - You know how to turn experimental prototypes into dependable operational capabilities.
- experience of using data rather than transferring technical complexity to consumers. - You measure whether the product achieved its intended business outcome.
- experience across data engineering, analytics engineering, business intelligence, data architecture, data products, or related disciplines. - 5+ years leading professional data teams, including
- experience managing managers or senior technical leaders. - Demonstrated success building or transforming a data function within a growing SaaS or technology company of comparable scale. - Deep
- experience with modern cloud data platforms, preferably including Snowflake. - Strong
- experience with data transformation and modeling frameworks such as dbt. -
- Experience with managed ingestion platforms such as Fivetran and with designing reliable source-to-warehouse pipelines. - Strong
- experience with business intelligence and self-service analytics platforms such as Sigma. - Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic layers, entity resolution, master data, golden records, data contracts, lineage, observability, and quality engineering. -
- Experience integrating and governing data from Salesforce and other core SaaS business systems. - Demonstrated ability to establish governed business metrics and resolve cross-functional definition disputes. - Strong commercial understanding of recurring-revenue business models and SaaS operating metrics. -
- Experience designing data products for executive, operational, analytical, and machine consumers. -
- Experience supporting planning, forecasting, customer lifecycle analysis, go-to-market analytics, financial reporting, and product analytics.
- - Personally built and shipped at least one production AI agent or agentic workflow.
- - Strong understanding of AI-agent evaluation, tool access, context management, observability, permissions, security, and operational reliability.
- - Hands-on technical capability to write and review SQL, inspect dbt projects, evaluate models, troubleshoot pipelines, and prototype solutions.
- - Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive difficult cross-functional changes.
- - Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a relevant technical, quantitative, or business field is welcome but not required.
- - A production AI agent they personally built, how it worked, how it was evaluated, and what measurable value it created.
- You must have the authorization to work in the US to become an employee.
Experience
- REQUIREMENTS - 12+ years of progressive
Benefits
- We need an exceptional leader with the vision, judgment, technical credibility, commercial fluency, and organizational influence to turn these systems into a trusted operating picture of the business.
- VISIONARY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL - You have a clear point of view about what a world-class data organization should become. - You can translate that vision into an executable sequence of systems, products, operating changes, and organizational decisions. - You have led meaningful transformation rather than merely maintaining a mature environment. - You can create momentum while building foundations that will endure. - You know how to distinguish transformative priorities from attractive distractions.
- COMPENSATION The expected base salary range for this position is $250,000 - $300,000.
- Actual compensation will depend on factors including budget, skills, experience, location, and internal equity.
- This position may also be eligible for bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation, where applicable.
- BENEFITS - Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision plans (ButterflyMX covers 80% of the cost) starting day 1 - 401(k) plan with a match - 10 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 5 sick days, 3 floating holidays - Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost) - Short and Long Term Disability (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost) - Paid Family Leave - Employee Assistance Program - Quarterly self-care stipends - Access to optional
- benefits including pre-tax flexible healthcare spending accounts (FSA and HSA), Dependent Care FSA, and Commuter Benefits, as well as optional Supplemental Life, AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Legal, Accident, Critical Illness, Pet, and Personal Liability Insurance - And more! ButterflyMX is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company.
Additional details
- Our products are installed in more than 20,000+ multifamily, commercial, gated communities, and student-housing properties worldwide, including properties developed, owned, and managed by the most trusted names in real estate.
- Our features are designed for developers, owners, property managers, and tenants and our products lower operating costs and improve tenant satisfaction.
- OUR SOLUTION Developers and owners no longer need to run building wiring or install in-unit hardware.
- Property managers can grant building access, revoke permissions, and review entry logs from an online dashboard.
- OUR CULTURE & VALUES Fantastic people are the key to our success.
- We’re driven by a shared commitment to excellence and innovation, grounded in our core values: We delight our customers, We take ownership, We are a community of collaborators, We speak up, We think big and do small, and We are tenacious.
- However, technology alone does not create a strong data organization.
- The VP of Data will establish Snowflake and the governed data layer as the company’s source of truth.
- Every important business entity will have a trusted golden record.
- Every critical metric will have one definition, one owner, and one official home.