SVP of Data

Who We Are

Arcadia is the technology company empowering energy innovators and consumers to fight the climate crisis. Our software and APIs are revolutionizing an industry held back by outdated systems and institutions by creating unprecedented access to the data and clean energy needed to make a decarbonized energy grid possible.

In 2014, Arcadia set out on its mission to break the fossil fuel monopoly and since then we have been knocking down the institutional barriers to unlock decarbonization. To date, we have connected hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses with high-quality clean energy options. Fast forward to today, and now, we’re thinking even bigger. We have launched Arc, an industry-defining SaaS platform that empowers developers and energy innovators to deliver their own custom, personalized energy experiences, accelerating the transformation of the industry from an analog energy system into a digitized information network.

Tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges requires out-of-the-box thinking & diverse perspectives. We’re building a team of individuals from different backgrounds, industries, & educational experiences. If you share our passion for ushering in the era of the clean electron, we look forward to learning what you would uniquely bring to Arcadia!

What we’re looking for:

We are seeking a proven Data and Analytics leader to run our data team. This role will report into the CFO of Arcadia. The mission: build and lead an always-on system for analyzing, understanding and improving our products and services. You will bring your experience of building, scaling and running a Data and Analytics team at a SaaS company and a deep understanding of what works and what doesn’t. The role includes crafting scalable approaches to sharing data and analytics across the company as well as deep quantitative inquiries and predictive modeling. The leader will promote evidence based decision making at Arcadia through ongoing collaborator engagement and will build analytic structures to support this outcome.

Arcadia is headquartered in Washington, DC, and open to fully remote candidates.

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What you'll do:

• Build, lead, and scale a successful data organization; including outstanding managers and individual contributors across Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Governance
• Serve as strategic advisor to the executive team. Using data to deliver insights, you will impact and influence decision making of key performance drivers.
• Build a multi-year strategy around data. Ensure we are thoughtful about what data we collect, growing it where possible and useful, and that we are using it to its full potential.
• Build a framework for data investments that ensures we are appropriately balancing R&D with products that deliver strong return on investment.
• Act as a champion for a data-driven culture and share the best operating practices within as well as outside the Data team.
• Champion the use of data throughout the organization, work to ensure our strategic planning is guided by data.
• Be a leader with vision - what other questions should we be asking and answering?

What will help you succeed:

Must-haves:

• You are an expert Data & Analytics leader who wants to apply your craft toward stopping climate change.
• You are passionate about data and numbers, and equally passionate about the imperative of climate change.
• You have built and led Data & Analytics teams at high-growth SaaS companies
• A strong communicator who uses data narratives to explain the solutions they build
• You have strong process leadership skills, but know when process layers become too heavy.
• Your Data & Analytics experience covers multiple functions including Product, Sales, Marketing and Operations
• 12+ years in the workforce and a strong preference for high-growth tClimate-Tech experience
• You are also a ‘doer’ and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves.
• You have top notch technical skills covering both data and quantitative techniques: data facility, descriptive analytics and predictive modeling.
• SQL and Python are a must.
• You are business-focused, with a strong tether to real world needs and a focus on solving actual problems rather than areas of conceptual interest.
• Eager to work in a fast-faced, growth setting. Flexible and fluid, you make things work and operate efficiently in a cross-functional environment.
• You build and deliver data products. You are outcomes driven with strong intuition for business; you pick the practical over the fancy.

Benefits:

• "Remote first" culture - work anywhere in the US as long as you have a reliable internet connection
• Flexible PTO - no accrued hours and no limit on the number of vacation days employees can take each year
• 15 annual company-wide holidays including a week long "summer break"
• 10 days sick leave
• Up to 4 weeks bereavement leave
• 2 volunteer days off
• 2 professional development days off
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents
• Weekly "flex time" - no internal meetings on Tuesdays and Friday afternoons
• 80-95% employer cost coverage for medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents
• Annual budget to use on conferences, books, classes, workshops or anything that contributes to professional development

Eliminating carbon footprints, eliminating carbon copies.

Here at Arcadia, we cultivate diversity, celebrate individuality, and believe unique perspectives are key to our collective success in creating a clean energy future. Arcadia is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. While we are currently unable to consider candidates who will require visa sponsorship, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Target Annual Compensation Range for this role will be $207,000 to $315,000. There will also be a competitive benefits and equity (bonus if applicable) component to the package. The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by the skills, experience, and location of the qualified candidate.