Head of Data

The posting, as Rentspree wrote it

About RentSpree

Renting should be faster, fairer, and less stressful than it is. We're the infrastructure that makes that happen. Four million users. 300+ real estate company and MLS partnerships. Ten years of consistent growth. From applications and screening to payments and lease management, the full rental journey runs on RentSpree. Recognized by Forbes as a Best Startup Employer and by BuiltIn Seattle as a Best Place to Work.

Head of Data - Seattle (hybrid, 2x/week in-office) - Paid relocation available
RentSpree is looking for a Head of Data to lead our Data organization, reporting directly to the CTO. In this role, you'll own Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Data Strategy as a single org and turn our data into one of RentSpree's core competitive advantages: proprietary rental data and ML-driven products that are unparalleled in the marketplace.
As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you'll define what RentSpree's data should do for the business, not just what dashboards it produces — from strategic data assets and ML to governance, data culture, and team growth.
This is a player-coach role. You will manage managers and still be fluent enough in SQL and data warehouse design to review a model, question a metric definition, and be credible both with your own analysts and in front of the executive team.
You'll operate across our globally distributed teams in Seattle and Bangkok, bringing clarity, accountability, and a strong bias for action to everything you do.
This position is hybrid (2 days/week) based in our Seattle office.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Executives and the Product team to drive product strategy through data. Translate company vision into the data capabilities needed to support it, and invest ahead of the product roadmap to keep our Data Platform modern
• Own the strategic data asset & ML roadmap: take our early data-asset initiatives from keystone use cases to a real architecture decision, and decide where ML earns its keep across pricing, lead scoring, propensity, and screening risk
• Build the GTM data foundation: define and own the unified customer profiles, segmentation, and journey tracking that Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success all run on, and make sure it reaches the systems they actually work in - campaign tools, the CRM, and in-product surfaces
• Own how we measure impact: set the company-wide standard for the experimentation lifecycle, from design and success-metric definition through causal readout, balancing speed with rigor and long-term hygiene
• Lead the Analytics team directly: manage our Business Analysts and Data Scientists, review their work and code quality, set the analytical rigor bar, prioritize the request queue, and guide how they scope and initiate their own projects
• Own Analytics Self-serve: continue improving our semantic layer and AI-powered self-serve tooling that keep routine requests off your analysts' plates, and drive adoption across our busin

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• Flexible vacation. Take the time you need. We trust you to manage it.
• 11 holidays a year, plus 3 recharge days.
• Ways to connect. Reimbursed weekly team lunches, game nights, and events. In-person and remote.
• Recognition. Recognize a peer with Sprees (redeemable for gift cards or donations). Nominate someone for a S.P.R.E.E. Award with a potential spot bonus.
• The tools to do your best work. Business expense allowance and internet reimbursement.
• Family support. Parental leave and fertility benefits.
• Legal and tax help. Legal benefits and tax support through RocketLawyer.
• Seattle HQ perk. Company-sponsored Orca card for public transit to and from the office.
• High impact, lean team. Small teams, close to customers, shipping work that matters. Your fingerprints are on the product.

SpreeHours

RentSpree has teams in the US and Bangkok. Collaboration across that distance requires a shared window: Monday-Thursday, 5–7pm PT / 7-9am ICT. How often you're in SpreeHours depends on your role, team, and projects. Any SpreeHours you work, you take back as flex time the same week. Outside of SpreeHours, your schedule is yours.

Ready to Build Something Big?

If you take ownership, move with urgency, and want to work on problems that matter, we'd love to hear from you. You don't need to meet every requirement. If this feels like the right place to do your best work, reach out.

EEO Statement

RentSpree is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. This applies to all employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Hiring decisions are made on qualifications, merit, and business need.