Imperfect Foods was founded in 2015 with a mission to reduce food waste and build a better food system for everyone. We offer imperfect (yet delicious) produce, affordable pantry items, and quality meat and dairy. Our customers can get the healthy, seasonal produce they want alongside the grocery staples they rely on, without having to compromise their budget or values. We’re proving that doing the right thing for the planet doesn’t have to cost more, and that shopping for quality ingredients can support the people and resources that it takes to grow our favorite foods.

We're headquartered in San Francisco with operations all over the country!

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow an elite team of data professionals, including Analytics and Data Science. Establish a kind culture with high standards.
• Set strategic goals and drive the overall roadmap for the team.
• Develop and implement frameworks and processes to ensure impeccable delivery of the plan.
• Exercise excellent judgment in technical and personnel decisions.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, and partner with them to influence strategic, architectural, and organizational choices.
• Hire and onboard effectively and quickly.
• Leverage quantitative metrics to track operational effectiveness, identifying and addressing areas for improvement.
• Establish and maintain best-in-industry technical standards, understanding and applying the technologies and techniques that are appropriate within our context.
• Serve as a coach and thought partner to team members across analytics, data science and engineering.
• Ensure high levels of reliability for mission-critical data platforms.
• Thoughtfully manage data infrastructure costs and investments.
• In collaboration with DevOps and Engineering, contribute to and align with overall system architecture following industry best practices.
• Partnering with Digital Product, identify and execute on data-centered feature development to inject smarts throughout the customer experience.
• Thoughtfully balance quick wins and proofs-of-concept with long-term investments.
• Advocate for the effective use of data and drive a culture of data-informed decision-making across the company.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience leading a team of data professionals across analytics and data science.
• A deep understanding of sophisticated data problems, as well as a demonstrated ability to overcome them.
• An ability to leverage data to directly impact the customer experience through feature development.
• Highly competent in all technical aspects of solving data problems at scale, including but not limited to Excel, SQL, Python, Snowflake, and machine learning.
• A deep passion for providing servant leadership at scale to empowered, multi-functional teams.
• Highly adaptable to change and able to effectively lead teams through that change.
• A pragmatic, customer-centric approach to problem-solving.
• An ability to create strong, trusting relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience managing a distributed team, managing remote employees, or being a remote employee is a plus.

Details of the Position:

• Full time, exempt position reporting to and partnering with the CTO
• Salary commensurate with experience. Salary range: 220-225k
• Bonus opportunities and equity
• Benefits include health, dental, vision, 401k with company match, PTO, and Holidays

Imperfect Foods is steadfast in its commitment to being an actively anti-racist company.

DEI programming is available for all employees and we highly encourage staff participation. It is only with everyone’s unique perspectives, experiences, and beliefs that we can help shape a culture of belonging and create an environment where all Imperfectionists are celebrated.

U.S. E-Verify Notice: Imperfect Foods participates in E-Verify in the United States. Imperfect will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.