Director of Data

Director of Data

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Roc360 delivers innovative products that make it easy for everyone to renovate, own, or invest in homes. We are both a leading capital provider to residential real estate investors and a pioneer in developing and applying cutting-edge data science to this field.

Roc360’s existing data science team has facilitated the acquisition and renovation of almost 15,000 homes through our digitally connected network of 7,000 renovation professionals and hundreds of local businesses. Roc360 is one of the few entities well-positioned to address both supply-side and demand-side challenges in the US housing market, with the capital to fund professional, experienced flippers, and a technology platform designed to identify investment opportunities with the greatest potential. Roc360’s core strength is in taking tools and approaches from quantitative trading and successfully applying them to finding the best borrowers in the fix-and-flip world.

Director of Data
Roc360 is looking for a Director of Data to lead our team of data scientists and engineers through our next phase of rapid growth and product expansion. As a member of the leadership team, you will collaborate in setting our company goals and objectives for transformative growth. Your primary responsibility will be the day-to-day management of our data team; you will also work closely with the engineering, marketing, and sales teams to support their work and maintain a great team culture. This full-time role reports directly to Roc360's COO and can be based in NYC or remote (with some travel to NYC).

As the Director of Data, you will:

    • Set data strategy for all of Roc360 in collaboration with the executive team
    • Lead the data team, leveling it up in terms of business impact, infrastructure, sophistication, and team growth
    • Deliver predictive models, analyses, and research for new and existing Roc360 products
    • Work with internal business and product leaders to identify opportunities for data team to drive impact 
    • Grow the data team to meet needs of Roc360's business

We are looking for someone with:

    • 5+ years experience working in data science or related field
    • 2+ years data team management experience (Data Science, ML, Software Engineering)
    • Ability to identify and prioritize important, solvable problems and articulate them to the team
    • Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for the opportunity to leverage data in residential real estate
    • Proficiency working with statistical programming (Python, R) and database querying languages (SQL), machine learning algorithms and modeling
    • Experience collaborating with professionals from other disciplines, especially finance, investment, product, or marketing
    • Commitment to fostering a culture of inclusion, where team members are valued and respected for their individual strengths and experiences

Roc360 is actively seeking candidates with unique and diverse work backgrounds to grow our team. We are especially excited to talk to you if have:

    • Domain experience in real estate and renovation
    • Experience working with location data, computer vision, or NLP
    • Experience scaling up a team in a startup or high-growth environment
    • Experience defining career growth paths for data scientists, engineers, and/or analysts, including both management and individual contributor roles
Roc360 is a global team of professionals committed to improving the residential real estate ecosystem. The core team has worked together for over 20 years, combining an entrepreneurial spirit, research-driven investment strategies, and a common-sense approach to lending. We offer our employees best-in-class benefits, including comprehensive health, vision, dental & retirement plans, including 401k matching.

As we have grown our team to 250 employees across 4 continents, our main focus has been to find hardworking people who are excited to make an impact. Roc360 is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

Learn more about careers at Roc360 here.
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