Drimva

Zip

Head of Business Data

$250K–$300K

San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026

Location
San Francisco
New York City
Experience
10+ years in data analytics, business intelligence, or analytics engineering; at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing managers.

About the job

Lead Zip’s business data strategy and BI/GTM Data Science functions, building trusted reporting and data foundations for executive decisions and AI initiatives.

What you'll do

  • Set the business data strategy and own the dashboarding, reporting, and enterprise single source of truth.
  • Structure and serve business data to enable AI capabilities, partnering with Product Data Engineering, Finance, Revenue Operations, and Product.
  • Hire and lead analytics teams; deliver executive, board, and stakeholder reporting.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or analytics engineering, including at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing managers.
  • Deep understanding of B2B SaaS business models, unit economics, and SaaS metrics, with experience across enterprise SaaS billing, CRM, and financial data.
  • Deep expertise in analytics and BI layers of the Modern Data Stack, plus data modeling and governed semantic layers.
  • Strategic understanding of structuring, modeling, and serving data for Large Language Models (LLMs) and embedded AI features.

Nice to have

  • Experience preparing data infrastructure for IPO readiness or leading data diligence during late-stage fundraises.

Pay

$250,000 - $300,000 (base salary)

Tools

dbt, Looker, Tableau, Sigma, Salesforce, Marketo, NetSuite, Stripe

AI focus

Build data foundations to power AI initiatives, including structuring and exposing usage and business data for automated, intelligent outputs and embedded AI features.

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