For 20 years, our mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural and organic products to encourage healthier and more vibrant living. By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform, web, and mobile products. At the core of our work lies a passion to create a culture of sustainable health & wellness.

What you will do.

The SPINS team for Retailer Data Production operates the data pipelines and produces data for our client-facing reporting applications. In this position, you will manage a team that onboards new retailers, ingests their POS data, and cleanses, enhances, aggregates, & delivers that data. You will partner with the architecture, design & engineering teams who build and continuously improve the pipelines and reporting applications. Within the larger context of our Product and Technology organization, your Retailer Data Production team works closely with teams that focus on data content quality, master data, data governance, custom reporting, data science, client success, and user support.

 SPINS is experiencing rapid growth. You will help your team to manage change by focusing on scalability & resiliency, process reproducibility, and data-driven process measurement.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Direct supervision of team members including hiring, scheduling, performance reviews and coaching.
• Set clear goals that enable the team to meet client data delivery expectations.
• Build capacity, capability, scalability, resilience and reproducibility within the team.
• Use a manufacturing process mindset to identify, measure, and improve data production processes.
• Collaborate with our data quality team to identify data quality exceptions before clients do.
• Collaborate with architecture, design & engineering as they develop and continuously improve our internal applications for ingestion, enhancement, modeling, aggregation and publishing.

What You Bring

 While your talent and experience matters most, we have to mention these qualifications matter to us:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technology, statistics or science
• Experience in organizations where data & insights are what we sell to clients
• 5+ years as a manager including performance reviews and OKRs (objectives & key results)
• Experience with a manufacturing process or process improvement mindset
• Ability to understand both aggregated and disaggregate data with statistical measures
• Competence in tools such as SQL, Unix, and job orchestration
• Prior experience balancing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team through significant change of skills & responsibilities
• Effective verbal and written communication with co-workers
• Excellent time management and attention to detail

 We’re even more impressed if you bring along your:

• Exposure to XP or other Agile engineering teams
• Experience with the integration of AI and ML models into production operations
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (or AWS or Azure)

 The SPINS Way

• Direct – We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
• Determined – We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
• Passionate – We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
• Collaborative – We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.

Why SPINS?

If we haven’t convinced you to join us yet, this just might! Sure we have a great benefit program but SPINS also offers its team members:

• Company subsidized commuter transit program
• Gym, bike storage and showers onsite
• Fresh and healthy snacks daily
• Vibrancy 360 Wellness Program: Free yoga and fitness classes, onsite massage, volunteer opportunities, client product demos, outings, and more.