Scale's Finance Analytics and Data Science team is looking for an experienced data leader to manage a team of analysts and data engineers building internal tools and AI agents that automate workflows across finance and accounting.
In this role, you will lead a small team while staying technically hands-on, working closely with stakeholders across business finance, corporate finance, and accounting to understand their workflows and build systems that enable faster turnaround times with higher degrees of accuracy.
You will guide your team in designing data models, prototyping internal tools, and implementing agent-driven workflows using our internal data infrastructure, system integration tooling, Scale's proprietary AI platform, and emerging AI tools.
We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, building systems from the ground up, translating ambiguous business needs into scalable technical solutions, and developing the people around them.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a small team of analysts and engineers, providing technical mentorship, career development, and day-to-day guidance
- Design and develop end-to-end agent-driven workflows that automate finance and accounting processes, and improve operational efficiency
- Build scalable data models and pipelines that serve as the foundation for analytics assets (e.g., dashboards), agentic workflows and system automations
- Partner with stakeholders across finance, accounting, and customer operations to translate business requirements into technical requirements and system designs
- Collaborate with engineering teams in the development of internal tools to improve Scale’s financial system infrastructure
- Evangelize and support the adoption of AI-enabled automation across finance and accounting teams
Ideally, you have:
- 6+ years of experience in data analytics, analytics engineering, or data science role
- 1-3+ years of people management experience
- Expert knowledge of SQL and Python for data analysis and modeling
- Experience building internal tools, automation systems, or data products**
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- Experience building a reliable transformation layer and pipelines from ambiguous business processes using tools such DBT to create a foundational data models
- Experience partnering with engineering, and business stakeholders to automate manual workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with business stakeholders
- Familiarity with finance or accounting terminology
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Metabase, or Looker**
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- Familiarity with JavaScript and modern automation tooling is a plus but not required
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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:
$200,000—$250,000 USD
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About Us:
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
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