Founding Data Lead Head of Data AI - AI fintech VC backed
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Founding Data Lead / Head of Data & AI AI fintech VC backed
Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire
About us
We are a VC backed startup with a vision to transform the creaking world of B2B payments.
Online payments might seem slick to the consumer. But when businesses pay each other tens of trillions of dollars are exchanged every year through a messy web of people manually chasing and reconciling invoices cheques and bank transfers. Our vision is a flexible AIpowered network for B2B payments. Were starting with an AI accounts receivable assistant that makes getting paid faster cheaper and easier.
Founded by the former Chief Product Officer of a fintech unicorn were building a small but mighty team to find productmarket fit together.
Your role
Data will be central to the success of our company. Using it very well is nonnegotiable and doing it even better will always make a real difference to our users.
As our Founding Data & AI lead youll work closely with the rest of the founding team focusing on:
Making our product take the best possible business decisions for users by designing and building:
- Models that use a blend of heuristics Gen AI and ML to make decisions and take actions
- Measures and tests to monitor and improve performance
- Ways to use the behavioural data of payers and merchants to continuously improve performance
- Intuitive ways for users to influence and control AI decisions
Developing the overall data architecture and pipelines to feed decisions including:
- Robust systems to analyse structured and unstructured data from multiple sources in order to produce insights for the decision models
- Ways to effectively manage the entity resolution and integration of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources
- Identification and incorporation of promising new data sources to feed decisions
- Approaches to managing and improving data quality
Like everyone in the founding team this role will initially focus on making things happen fast yourself but wed love you to be there to build a team as we grow the business together. A candidate with the experience and skills to be the longterm data leader as we scale is desirable but not required.
Requirements
- Handson technically strong individual contributor
- Experience designing and building heuristic and ML models as well as putting them into production with assistance from engineers
- Experience as the data leader on zero to one new product development
- Ability to solve problems with varying levels of data input/availability
- Pragmatic impactorientated mindset. A focus on building delightful products that customers love
Bonus points for any and all of the below
- Experience in a startup/scaleup environment
- Experience managing teams of data scientists engineers or analysts
- Experience building and launching LLMpowered products
Benefits
- Competitive salary on top of significant equity stake (package title commensurate with candidate experience)
- Be there from the ground up in a hugely ambitious new venture
- Rare opportunity to shape a company early but with substantial funding already raised
- Flexible working (East Coast US UK/Europe timezones)
We are unfortunately not able to sponsor visas for this role candidates must be UK / US / EU citizens and residents.
Cherry Ventures is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.
Employment Type
Full Time
