Data Team Lead, OPEXEngine by Bain & Company
Permanent, Full-time, Remote US
The company
OPEXEngine is the leading performance benchmarking solution for operators and investors. A
part of Bain & Company since 2021, we provide extensive validated data and insights to drive
operational and resource allocation decisions. With our cutting-edge data platform, we track
250+ metrics from the world’s leading private and public SaaS companies.
The role
OPEXEngine is evolving and seeking a Data Team Lead to manage, enhance, and scale our
benchmark database, which sits at the core of our product offering. As our Data TeamLead, you will
report to the VP, Strategy and Operations and manage our Database Engineer. You will be the
bridge between the customer-facing delivery team and our tech/engineering team, helping to
translate customer feedback into new product features and helping customers get the most out
of our data and platform. You will be the owner of our SQL Benchmarking Database – leading
management and enhancements. You will also play a major role in supporting recurring and ad
hoc analyses using our database to identify valuable insights for our customers. Additionally,
you will have an opportunity to influence our product roadmap, collaborating with Delivery and
Sales to identify new features and working with the Tech team to scope and deliver them onto
our data platform.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead benchmark validation and calculation for 250+ SaaS metrics and act as the subject
matter expert for our benchmark database and metrics
- Manage our database by leading data ingestion, validation, and database
enhancements
- Support recurring and ad hoc analyses leveraging our proprietary and public databases
- Partner with our VP of Strategy & Operations and our Tech Lead to influence our product
roadmap by identifying new product features based on customer feedback, prioritizing
and scoping features to develop our ongoing roadmap
Personal qualities to succeed in the role
- You are excited to be part of an agile team and excel at collaborating cross-functionally
with both tech and go-to-market teams.
- You seek to build on your data analysis skills to develop your skills as a business partner
and/or product manager.
- You have a strong understanding of how to organize and store data and strive to make it
scalable and future proof.
- You enjoy being the data expert, understanding the details of a database, how best to
use it, and enabling others to understand the data.
- You are always looking for the “so what?” in the data to drive business insights from data
insights.
- You are a self-starter, who can take initiative, work independently, and identify
opportunities for improvement.
- You thrive when given full accountability and ownership over your function and
understand the need to prioritize.
Minimum qualifications
- 2+ years in a senior data analyst or data architect role (prior management experience a
plus but not required)
- Extensive experience with MySQL databases, Python, Excel
- Strong cross-functional communication and project management skills
- Experience explaining data concepts to non-technical stakeholders (direct experience
with external customers a plus but not required)
- Willingness to learn about SaaS (prior work experience in SaaS a plus but not required)
For questions or to apply, please email: talent@opexengine.com