Data Lead (AI)

Location: New York City; hybrid role requiring in-office work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Salary: $180,000–$225,000 annual base salary plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a workforce platform that trains healthcare workers and partners with major healthcare systems to build talent pipelines.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three data analysts and engineers.
• Own the data platform, including pipelines, warehouse, transformation layer, BI tooling, reliability, and scalability.
• Define and maintain metrics covering enrollment, engagement, completion, certification, placement, CAC, LTV, and retention.
• Build dashboards and self-service analytics for teams across the company.
• Partner with Growth and Product on experiment design, instrumentation, and A/B test analysis.
• Deliver strategic analyses, write production SQL and Python, review work, and establish data governance and quality practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience across data analytics and data engineering, including 2+ years managing a team.
• Experience as a hands-on player-coach who sets direction, manages people, and ships individual contributions.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills.
• Hands-on experience with modern data tools such as dbt, Snowflake or BigQuery, Airflow, and Looker or Metabase.
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments in a high-growth environment.
• Strong product and business judgment and the ability to communicate complex findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling a data function at an early- or growth-stage startup.
• Experience with marketing attribution or funnel analytics at scale.
• Experience in EdTech, healthcare, or another mission-driven industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on improving healthcare workforce access and career pathways.
• Equity stake and competitive total rewards package.
• Subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• 401(k), FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits.
• Open vacation policy with guidance of 15 days of PTO annually, the last week of December closed, 15 work-from-anywhere days, and 10 public holidays in 2026.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with Talent Acquisition.
• Hiring manager interview, take-home assignment and presentation.
• On-site panel interview.