The position

At point.me, our vision is to be the best in the world at understanding the loyalty space and translating that understanding into real-time actionable insights for our customers. We’re building a new team dedicated to loyalty data to help us achieve this vision, and we’re looking for an experienced leader to join us. As the Director of Loyalty Data, you will own the strategy and execution for this new team, growing it from the ground up and ensuring its work directly contributes to customer value and company growth. You will report directly to the VP of Product & Engineering, and will play a key role in helping us create differentiated products and experiences.

What You'll Do

• Own the Data Strategy: Lead the development and execution of a strategic vision for the data function, ensuring that the team’s work aligns with company goals and delivers customer value.

• Grow and Lead the Team: Build and manage a high-performing cross-functional team that includes data analytics, data engineering, data science, and subject matter expertise. Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with our expanding Go-to-Market (GTM) team to address their business data requirements, driving top-line revenue growth. Your efforts will be instrumental in fostering a self-service data culture at [point.me](http://point.me/).

• Develop Data Capabilities: Build real-time data capabilities that ingest award availability and pricing, combine it with other data from the loyalty space and about our customers, transform it to generate insights, and surface those insights to our customers. Work with your team to develop increasingly intelligent models to provide personalized recommendations.

• Translate Insights into Value: Collaborate with product, engineering, and other teams to ensure that loyalty data insights are integrated into our product offerings, driving both customer engagement and revenue growth.

Who You Are

You are an experienced data leader with a track record of success in building and scaling data functions in high-growth environments. You thrive at the intersection of data engineering, data science, and strategy, and you’re excited by the opportunity to lead a cross-functional team tackling some of the hardest problems in loyalty data. The following experiences and competencies are ideal for this role:

• Team Builder: You have experience leading and growing cross-functional teams, including data engineers and data scientists. You know how to develop talent and foster a collaborative team culture.

• Technical Expertise: You have deep experience in data engineering and data science, and you’re comfortable designing data architecture from the ground up. You’ve led efforts to go from 0 to 1 in data capabilities, and you understand the complexities of real-time data ingestion, transformation, and delivery in production.

• Strategic Thinker: You have a demonstrated ability to develop and execute a data strategy that drives business value. You know how to incorporate revenue drivers into your work to create both customer value and company growth.

• Domain Curiosity: You're excited to dive deep into the world of award availability and pricing and to leverage that understanding to generate insights and create value for our customers.

About point.me

At point.me, we are committed to simplifying the loyalty points experience and helping our customers travel better. We believe that great data insights are key to delivering on this promise, and we’re excited to build a team that can lead the way.

Join us and be part of a fast-growing company where your work will make a real impact. We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, comprehensive health coverage, and the opportunity to work fully remotely as part of a distributed team.

If you’re excited to lead a strategic, data-driven team and help shape the future of loyalty data at point.me, we’d love to meet you!

Benefits & perks

Join our growing team! Here at point.me we believe in taking care of our team, so that our team can take care of our customers. All employees are offered the following:

• Competitive salaries and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health care coverage
• A 100% distributed workforce, so you can contribute from wherever you prefer
• An open vacation policy, with a minimum of 15 days off each year
• Team trips and outings

The anticipated salary range for this role is $175,000-$230,000. Specific compensation will be determined based on your level of experience.

Given the nature of our business, we anticipate that all team members will be traveling from time to time, including company trips and off-sites, or meeting with strategic partners. As such, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment at point.me. We’ll ask you to send us a copy of your vaccination card in advance of your first day.

While our team members can participate from anywhere, all applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

We respect the individual needs of employees and are an equal opportunity employer.