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Head of Data

Austin, Texas, United States, New York, New York, United States

About Us

  • Insurance brokers sit at the intersection of care, cost, and access — yet remain one of the most underleveraged assets in the $5T healthcare value chain. They guide millions of Americans through plan selection, coverage questions, and care navigation, yet still rely on spreadsheets, manual workflows, and outdated tools that limit their growth and impact.
  • Gyde is reimagining this. We’re building the first AI-native insurance brokerage platform—a system that learns from every client interaction to automate operations, power intelligent voice and chat experiences, and predict the right coverage and products for every individual or business.
  • Our approach combines acquisition and AI: we acquire traditional brokerages and transform them into next-generation, data-driven organizations. Through Gyde’s platform, agencies run more efficiently, serve clients more personally, and scale faster than ever before.
  • Join us if you’re excited to:
    • Redefine how millions of people access and understand their healthcare coverage, by building systems that turn unstructured data, human conversations, and fragmented processes into intelligence.
    • Build AI systems that improve how people access healthcare
    • Design production-grade voice, chat, and predictive models for a highly regulated domain
    • Launch technologies that augment human judgment and make complex decisions transparent and scalable
    • Help reinvent an entire industry from the inside out
  • Our founding team boasts pedigrees from Oscar, Stripe, and Spark. Lightspeed led Gyde’s Seed financing, with participation from Virtue and Crystal Venture Partners, and angels from Oscar, Uber, and more.

Role Summary

As Head of Data at Gyde, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of how data powers decision-making across the company. You’ll be responsible for building the systems, team, and culture that turn raw data into actionable insights and scalable infrastructure. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise. 

Reporting into the COO, you’ll collaborate with our Value Creation team to drive the data integration strategy of our acquired assets along with Engineering team to ensure our data pipelines and platforms are robust, secure, and built to scale. Additionally, this a cross-functional role where you’ll be expected to support each department’s data needs with varying degrees of intensity. 

This role is ideal for a data leader who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys building from zero to one, and is motivated by the impact that clean, connected data can have across an organization

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the data strategy: Set the vision for how data is collected, structured, and used across the organization.
  • Infrastructure & Quality: Build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines and ensure data accuracy and governance across systems.
  • Analytics & Insights: Partner with functional leaders to design metrics, dashboards, and reporting that enable data-driven decision-making.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Growth, and Operations to integrate data insights into business and product strategies.
  • Technology & Tools: Evaluate and implement tools for analytics, BI, and data warehousing (e.g., dbt, Redshift, Quicksights, BigQuery, Looker, etc.).
  • Security & Compliance: Partner with the Engineering and Compliance to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance standards are upheld.

What you bring and who you are

  • 7–10+ years of experience in data-related roles, with at least 2+ years leading teams.
  • Strong technical foundation in SQL, data modeling, and modern data stacks (e.g. dbt, Redshift, Quicksights, BigQuery, Looker, etc.).
  • Proven ability to build or scale data systems and translate data into business insights.
  • Analytical and structured thinker with a deep understanding of metrics and experimentation.
  • Excellent communicator who can partner with technical and non-technical teams alike.
  • Collaborative mindset, you value infrastructure and engineering excellence as much as analytical insight.
  • A natural problem solver who enjoys working in “white space” and has built data pipelines from scratch in the past 
  • A proactive, resourceful leader who thrives in ambiguity and builds structure where it doesn’t yet exist.
  • Experience in healthcare or financial services data environments is a plus, but not required.

What we offer

Gyde offers a competitive benefits package to all employees.  

  • Top of the market compensation 
  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
  • Hybrid Work in Austin or NYC
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K) 
  • Parental Leave

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