Senior Director Data Hybrid

Senior Director Data (Hybrid 2 to 3 days onsite per week)

Overview:

The Senior Director of Data will be a key leader responsible for building and leading a highperforming data organization and monetizing our data products. This role will drive datadriven decision making across all aspects of the business from product development and marketing to operations and strategy. The ideal candidate is a passionate data leader with a proven track record of success in building and scaling data teams and delivering impactful datadriven solutions.

You will lead and grow the data organization that is responsible for orchestrating and defining the organizationwide data strategy in line with the support of Weedmaps product and analytics strategies for our internal and external stakeholders. The explosive growth of the cannabis industry as well as the differentiated legal requirements in each legal jurisdiction require that our platform solve increasingly complex problems and enable client customers to comply with a complex array of compliance reporting and operating requirements. You will provide thought leadership and direction to unlock the true potential of what we believe is one of our most valuable assets. You will be responsible for shaping how we acquire collect and leverage data such as the vast amount of consumer cannabis brand/product transactional and operational data across all sides of the marketplace and supply chain that provides the underlying foundation and intelligence to power the Weedmaps product portfolio.

Our products range across the industry verticals from our flagship consumer platform to delivery fleet management. Additionally as we expand our platform which will provide SaaS solutions for the cannabis supply chain it will be increasingly necessary to unify the framework and architecture on which the platform operates with a holistic data approach to ensure that each product integrates seamlessly with one another. Youll be responsible for ensuring that we are building a scalable reliable compliant secure and highly performant data platform using best practices for delivering our products to market. You will ensure our data architecture is flexible to allow for our growth into new while supporting our existing business lines. Youll be responsible for consistently integrating and aligning data analytics roadmaps into an organizationwide data roadmap to deliver on the overall data strategy across our suite of products.

This is a strategic role that requires a strong partnership with other functions across the company. Youll partner with other senior leaders across the company to translate technology capabilities into strategic business decisions. Youll drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results. And youll align and inspire your organization by effectively communicating the strategy and driving the team to build a worldclass marketplace in the cannabis space.

The impact youll make:

• Centralize and Standardize Data & Metrics:
• You will architect and champion a unified data analytics framework that serves as the single source of truth for key metrics dashboards and reporting. This includes establishing standardized definitions and processes that bridge the gap between Product Analytics and Data Analytics eliminating inconsistencies and restoring trust across the organization.
• Break Down Silos & Enhance Collaboration:
• You will reshape the way our data engineering and product teams collaborate. By instituting clear crossfunctional workflows (e.g. production SQL in DBT with code reviews across roles empowering data engineers to build dashboards and enabling agile collaboration on custom code) you will eliminate the throwitoverthewall mentality and foster a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement.
• Drive Strategic Roadmapping & Measurable Impact:
• You will implement rigorous quarterly planning and roadmapping processes that align with product and engineering priorities. This includes defining marquee projects with clear KPIs and quantifiable impact ensuring that every initiativewhether its maintaining our current platform or driving transformative growthis tied directly to business value.
• Drive the roadmap based on data priorities. Be the visionary around where our data can take us.
• Provide Technical Direction on Data:
• Provide oversight direction and technical partnership for the overarching Weedmaps data stack including technologies such as Snowflake DBT and Airflow in languages including Python and SQL as well as foster new emerging technologies in the data analytics and engineering spaces.
• Optimize stack for cost efficiencies
• Build Data Powered Products:
• Through analytics ML and AI build the worlds most comprehensive cannabis data platform to power the Weedmaps ecosystem as well as power the cannabis industry through the Weedmaps partner and integration channels.
• Lead a team that designs and develops scalable data solutions across the entire data supply chain

What youve accomplished:

• Transformative Data Leadership:
• You have successfully led highgrowth data organizations by creating unified reliable data ecosystems that eliminate conflicting metrics and ad hoc reporting. Your proven track record includes standardizing data definitions and dashboards across diverse teams which has restored organizational trust in the data.
• You have led analytics engineering data science teams. You may have led machine learning teams or cross functional software engineering teams as well.
• Breaking Down Silos & Building Collaborative Cultures:
• You have a history of dismantling entrenched silos by fostering crossfunctional collaboration between data engineering analytics and product teams. Youve introduced agile integrated workflows that empower teams to coown solutionsfrom production SQL development with rigorous code reviews to enabling engineers to rapidly prototype dashboards without bottlenecks.
• Strategic Roadmapping & Measurable Outcomes:
• You have designed and executed data roadmaps that clearly align with business priorities. This includes quantifying the impact of individual projects and establishing marquee initiatives that drive both operational stability (running the business) and transformative growth (growing the business). Your experience includes aligning quarterly plans with product and engineering to ensure timely highimpact feature launches.
• Technical Direction on Data:
• You have reengineered data architectures to streamline data ingestion and processing replacing legacy systems with scalable frameworks that reduce technical debt and optimize resource spending. Your experience includes setting up robust incident management systems with clear ownership and realtime alerting ensuring rapid resolution and sustained data quality.
• Data Powered Products:
• Experience working in a highgrowth technology space preferably in ecommerce space as an engineer and leader building applications and technology to engage consumers and foster growth.
• Familiarity with frontend and backend technologies and concerns both as they relate to the application engineering and data engineering stacks.
• Deep understanding of analytics ML AI solutions for customers and clients

The base pay range for this position is $220000 $275000 per year

2025 Benefits for FullTime Regular Employees:

• Physical Health benefits: Medical Dental & Vision:
  • Employee employer paid premium 100
  • Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
  • For plans that offer coverage to your dependents you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits:
  • Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
  • Employee Training
  • Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D employer paid 1x salary up to $250000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO Paid Sick Leave and Company Holidays
• Supplemental voluntary benefits
  • Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings including a company contribution
  • FSA (Medical Dependent Transit and Parking)
  • Voluntary Life and AD&D
  • Insurance
  • Critical Illness Insurance
  • Accident Insurance
  • Short and Longterm Disability Insurance
  • Pet Insurance
  • Family planning/fertility
  • Identity theft protection
  • Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps

• You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best
• You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
• Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series Employee Resource Groups happy hours team celebrations game nights and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and protective hairstyles) religion and religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression age military status veteran status uniformed service member status sexual orientation transgender identity citizenship status pregnancy or any other consideration made unlawful by federal state or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses EVerify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about EVerify including your rights and responsibilities please visitwww.dhs/EVerify.

Applicants are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state/local laws unless the accommodation presents undue hardship. Please email us at peopleoperations atweedmaps.comif you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.

About Weedmaps:

WM Technology Inc.s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change weve seen in the past 10 years.

Founded in 2008 WM Technology is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry comprising a B2C platform Weedmaps and B2B software WM Business. The cloudbased SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an endtoend operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business tools support compliance with the complex disparate and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers brands and products facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception WM Technology has worked tirelessly not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space to advocate for legalization social equity and licensing in many jurisdictions and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine California WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us atwww.weedmaps.

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