Desired Skills

• Experience managing a technical team working across data engineering, analytics, data science, machine learning, or related software engineering disciplines.
• The technical depth to assess system designs, review code and implementation approaches, and provide credible guidance to experienced engineers and data practitioners.
• Working fluency across modern data platforms, data modeling, pipelines and orchestration, analytics systems, machine learning lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and production software practices.
• A record of improving technical platforms, automating manual processes, and creating systems that scale with the needs of the business.
• Experience managing a team with a mix of foundational platform work, product development, stakeholder-driven requests, and operational responsibilities.
• Strong judgment about when to build reusable capabilities, when to solve an immediate business need, and how to make those tradeoffs clear to stakeholders.
• The ability to partner effectively with both Engineering and go-to-market teams, translating different needs and constraints into coherent priorities.
• Experience setting expectations, managing performance, supporting career growth, and developing senior technical individual contributors.
• The communication and organizational skills to operate with a high degree of autonomy while maintaining alignment with company and engineering leadership.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment and actively contributing to team growth and cohesion.
• U.S. core business hours availability and willingness to travel for company meetings.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with fintech, payments, card-linked offers, loyalty, or other transaction-intensive products.
• Experience operating production machine learning systems or integrating models and decisioning capabilities into customer-facing products.
• Experience with high-volume batch and real-time data systems.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Databricks, dbt, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Remote - USA Pay Range

$180,000

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$220,000 USD

Why Join:

Kard recognizes the unique value each of us brings to our collective success. As part of our remote-first team, you'll have the autonomy to influence our trajectory, actively contributing to the growth of our business and the evolution of our company culture. By embodying our core values of Initiative, Openness, and Humility, you will not only witness but directly foster an inclusive and dynamic work environment, from the executive level down.

Our competitive benefit plan includes:

• Flexible PTO, with a minimum requirement to take one day off a quarter, ten days a year, promoting mental well-being
• Observance of 11 Federal Holidays, plus an additional day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (US employees only)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with employer match (US employees only)
• Coworking space and WFH setup reimbursement
• Company Offsites for planning, team-building, and networking

Kard is an equal opportunity employer and we actively encourage applicants of all genders, backgrounds, and experiences to apply. We believe that diverse perspectives enrich our workplace and drive our success.