Head of Data & AI Platform

About the Company

Industrious is the largest premium workplace-as-a-service provider and home to the highest-rated workplaces in the industry. Everything we do comes down to creating great days for teams of all sizes and stages, including our own. We believe that what makes a great day at work is the people on your team and the problems you get to solve together. We’re looking for people who love thinking outside the box and thrive in a truly collaborative setting. As teammates, we encourage new ideas and toast every win. We’re excited about having a meaningful impact on people’s workplace experience.  

Great days also start when everyone can be their authentic self at work. Diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas is critical to our success in delivering great workplace experiences, both for our members and for each other. Industrious is committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment that embraces your individuality and quirkiness. You are valued for who YOU are. We celebrate our people as individuals who can accomplish great things when we work together as one team.

We are proud to have been recognized as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing companies in 2020 by Inc. Magazine and one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employers.

To learn more, visit www.industriousoffice.com/careers.

The Opportunity

Industrious is at a once in a lifetime inflection point, transitioning from being a late stage growth startup to an independent business unit of the world’s largest real estate company. This next phase is all about figuring out how to make the most of the platform we’re now a part of, including nurturing our #soindustrious team, bringing our expertise in workplace experience to millions of people around the world, building new products, and doing it all with sustainable economics. 

We’ve outgrown traditional BI and reporting — and we’re ready to reimagine how data powers our business. Our goal:

• A fast, agile data model that scales as quickly as we do.
  
  
• A company-wide ability to ask questions in plain English and get instant, trusted answers.
  
  
• A data platform that is AI-native at its core.

We’re looking for a Head of Data & AI to lead this transformation. You will guide our data engineering team, partner closely with the executive team, and architect the future of data at Industrious. You’ll balance the balcony and dance floor — zooming out to shape vision and strategy, zooming in to push for technical excellence and unblock your team.

This is not about maintaining the status quo. It’s about building a platform and a culture that turns data into our most strategic asset.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be joining and leading our "small but mighty" engineering and data group. We pride ourselves on being smart, fun, and highly collaborative. This is not your typical engineering environment; we are allergic to bureaucracy and operate with low ego and high velocity. We value individuals who are equally strong as Individual Contributors and team players, and we expect our leaders to embody these values.

Strategy & Vision

• Define the North Star: Craft and evangelize a compelling vision for an AI-native data ecosystem at Industrious. Your roadmap must connect foundational infrastructure directly to game-changing business outcomes.
• Be the Executive Whisperer: Work closely with the ELT and department leaders to deeply understand their existing needs, anticipate their future challenges, and translate business strategy into data requirements.
• Kill the Static Dashboard: Architect the strategy for true data fluency. We are moving beyond centralized reporting to a culture of empowered, self-serve analytics accessible via natural language.
  
  

Execution & Delivery

• Build the Foundation: Lead the design and implementation of a modern, scalable, and reliable data stack (we currently leverage tools like Looker Pro, Snowflake, Redshift, Fivetran, but you will define the optimal setup). This platform must be the unequivocal single source of truth.
• Challenge and Deliver: Partner with and challenge the engineering and data teams to deliver incredible results at high velocity. You must be comfortable diving into the technical weeds to ensure architectural integrity.
• Simplify and Accelerate: Attack our existing data transformations, simplifying, documenting, and sharing them to unlock immediate improvements in our current BI while building the future platform.