Director of Data & Analytics

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About LeafLink

LeafLink is the regulated cannabis industry’s largest wholesale marketplace, providing licensed dispensaries the ability to order from their favorite brands, as well as a suite of software tools for those brands to manage and scale their operations.

With over 3,400 retailers and more than 1,200 brands across 22 territories in the US and Canada, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink annually processes and manages more than $1 billion in wholesale cannabis orders - you can learn more about our history and path to $1B here http://firstbillion.leaflink.com/. 

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC’s, is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Built In NYC's ‘Best Places to Work in 2019’, as well as one of Fast Company’s ’Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2018’, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare - and we’re just getting started!

The Role

LeafLink is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to join our New York City team and lead our efforts to continue to build and mature our data-driven culture with a focus on team growth, driving strategic initiatives, and continuing to expand our company’s capabilities through business intelligence, analytics reporting, and data-driven product decisions. 

As LeafLink continues to scale and grow our product offerings within the B2B cannabis market, we increasingly rely on data to inform our strategic vision and goals as well as to power many of our features and platform tools. As a leader within the company, this role will be heavily relied on to support, mature, and create new and more robust data offerings that benefit both internal and external stakeholders and have a lasting impact on our company and teams.

Reporting to the CTO and co-founder, this role will be responsible for building a dedicated team of data analysts and engineers, collaborating closely with various department stakeholders including Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Experience, and driving new business initiatives and revenue streams as our company continues to expand its market offerings. This role comes with the opportunity to be the leader of a new and emerging department within a company that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

The responsibilities described below are representative of those the person in this role would be performing, but should not be considered an exhaustive list - this position is extremely flexible in terms of its areas of focus!

Responsibilities: 

  • Work with the LeafLink leadership team to establish both a short-term and long-term roadmap for the role data plays in our product growth, revenue growth, and operational growth
  • Use data-driven techniques to foster innovation within the organization, and serve as the organization's thought leader on analytics approaches necessary for driving business impact
  • Support the success of various functional teams via data-driven decision making and ensure alignment across teams based on their individual data needs
  • Collaborate with technical leaders and define the strategy around continuous investments around data infrastructure and platform to enable critical data capabilities
  • Periodically evaluate the data vendor landscape and identify strategic partnerships / solutions that can bring high ROI to the organization as it scales
  • Able to work in a hands-on fashion to ensure successful execution of data initiatives, leading by example
  • Nurture and grow a team of data analysts and data scientists and support their professional development
  • Ensure data best practices and play a critical role in building a data-driven culture throughout the entire organization

Qualifications:

  • Established track record driving business goals and offerings through data, business intelligence, and analytics
  • Have built and lead a data team that has created a data-driven culture at a company as they scale
  • Track record as a hands-on data leader delivering models within a large scale data environment
  • Proficiency with Python and R, or similar analytics and programming languages
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (RedShift, S3, EC2, EMR, etc.) and Apache Spark preferred
  • Familiarity with relational modeling, database applications and integrations, ETL tools, client/server solutions, and modern query languages preferred
  • Familiarity with data visualization applications, like Periscope, Tableau, Looker, D3/javascript
  • Experience with statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and prolific A/B testing in service of real-world business challenges
  • Experience managing and developing high-performance teams
  • Ability to engage with a wide variety of team members at different levels, delivering insights and recommendations

Benefits:

  • Generous PTO
  • Fun office environment 
  • Competitive salary 
  • Benefit Matching (medical, dental, vision) 
  • 401k Offered
  • Stock options 
  • Team events


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Technology we use

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Location

In the heart of the Financial District, we're accessible to most subway lines, the path train, and ferries, with almost too many lunch options!

An Insider's view of LeafLink

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

On a large scale, the LeafLink team collaborates during “Huddle Booze Report” (HBR), a biweekly meeting where team leaders present on company KPIs, accomplishments, and challenges (with some beers). Every member of the team is welcome to comment or ask questions, bringing forth their thoughts and ideas.

Claire

Director of Operations, Marketplace

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

As co-founder and CTO it’s important for me to maintain official communication channels with teams and individuals. We have various meetings that bring leadership together with teams which include sprint demos, retrospects, daily standups and one on one meetings. Open communication supports alignment and productivity something we are all about here

Zach

Co-Founder and CTO

What are LeafLink Perks + Benefits

LeafLink Benefits Overview

LeafLink provides:

- Flexible PTO to give our employees a little extra R&R
- Competitive compensation and 401k
- Learning and Development stipend
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Commuter Benefits through a Flexible Spending Account
- A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Leaflink offers voluntary long-term and short-term disability plans.
Dental insurance
LeafLink's dental plan has no deductible and covers 100% of preventative services, including X-rays, and has a $5 co-pay.
Vision insurance
Our vision plan covers annual eye exams and lenses after a $20 copay. Frames and contact lenses are covered up to $100 annually.
Health insurance
Leaflink offers a range of Aetna plans that cover both in network and out of network providers, and have copays as low as $20. We also have complimentary enrollment in One Medical and Teladoc.
Life insurance
Our voluntary Life Insurance plans offer our employees financial stability and security.
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
LeafLink offers discounted Gym memberships to its full time employees.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
LeafLink's 401k plan offers a broad range of available funds, including Vanguard, Fidelity, and American Funds.
Company equity
LeafLink offers stock options through our Stock Option Plan.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Leaflink's Flexible PTO policy allows our team to execute ferociously, with the knowledge that they will be able to rest and recharge when they need to.
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Leaflink offers 11 days per year for Major Holiday observance.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
LeafLink offers pre-tax commuter benefits to all full time employees.
Company-sponsored outings
LeafLink has quarterly team outings, an annual holiday party, and an annual incentive trip.
Free snacks and drinks
LeafLink offers unlimited snacks, tea and coffee.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
LeafLink has a generous annual budget for attending industry conferences and events.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within

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