Founding Data Lead

We are a small, high-talent-density team scaling our business with technology. The companies that win this phase keep their teams small and their leverage high. Data is usually where that breaks: trust erodes, every team defines metrics differently, and answering a simple question turns into a week of reconciliation. The opportunity here is to prove the opposite - that one excellent person, building the right models and definitions early, can give the whole business trusted, self-serve answers while the team stays lean.

We’re looking for senior capability, expressed as autonomy and breadth more than years — but as a guide, this typically looks like 5+ years across analytics engineering, data analysis or BI, with the seniority to own outcomes end-to-end and set standards from scratch.

You have owned a production data stack - the pipelines feeding the warehouse and a tested, documented, version-controlled model layer on top - not just “used dbt” once.

Strong, demonstrable business-facing analysis - you have good instincts about which insights matter, can manage stakeholders and metric definitions, and reliably turn numbers into decisions.

You think in definitions and trust - your instinct on seeing inconsistent numbers is to model and define them once, not to patch another query.

You use AI deliberately and verify it - you wield agents to move fast on the mechanical work and own the verification that keeps outputs honest.

You communicate trade-offs clearly , make pragmatic calls about what is fit-for-stage versus over-engineered, and are happy being the founding owner who sets the standard others build on.

Our stack today (a starting point - you’ll shape where it goes): Fivetran for ingestion, Snowflake as the warehouse, and Hex for reporting.

Build the data function, don't maintain one. This is the first dedicated data hire - you're not inheriting a tangle of broken pipelines and conflicting metrics, you're defining how Skip models, defines and trusts its numbers from scratch. Real founding ownership, not a delegated slice.

Own the numbers the whole company runs on. From ingestion through to the board pack, warehouse-funder and regulator reporting - you sit at the centre of credit, growth, finance and exec, turning vague questions into decisions. Few roles give one person this much leverage over how a business actually thinks.

A path to build and lead a team. We're hiring one excellent founding owner today - but as request volume and the business scale, the opportunity to grow this into a data team you lead, or to deepen as the principal who sets the standard, will be explicitly on the table.

Competitive comp and ESOP. We pay competitively and back it with equity that reflects the founding nature of this role. As Skip scales many times over, you share in the upside you help build.

Work at the frontier of data and AI. Full support from an internal product and engineering team, a modern stack you'll shape (Fivetran, Snowflake, Hex), and a mandate to wield AI on the mechanical work while you own the judgement that keeps numbers honest. This is analytics engineering for the modern era, not hand-built spreadsheets and reconciliation weeks.

Serious company, serious scale, real impact. Backed by leading US venture funds and global credit partners Skip is in a true hyper-growth phase - loan book scaling rapidly, major distribution partnerships live. Your work helps hard-working Australians Skip to home ownership sooner, on a team that moves fast and backs each other to do the best work of our careers.