Head Of Data
US$250,000 – US$350,000 / yr base salary
Posted 21 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Head of Data”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$250,000 – US$350,000 / yr |
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About Manifest
Manifest OS is the leading AI-native company on a mission to replace the billable hour and make legal services more accessible for American businesses and consumers. We power the next generation of AI-native law firms with one unified global brand, a proprietary technology platform, and a centralized back office, enabling lawyers to eliminate the administrative burden and focus on delivering exceptional outcomes for their clients. Manifest OS has raised a $60M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round, and Quiet Capital.
About the Role
You'll own Manifest's data platform — its architecture, reliability, and direction — and lead the team that builds it. The platform works, but scaling to the next order of magnitude requires deliberate architectural decisions: case data spans two generations of systems, identity resolution stitches together five sources per person, and the warehouse now needs to power AI product features, not just dashboards.
You'll define what this platform looks like in two years, sequence a path to get there without a full rewrite, and keep the data trustworthy throughout. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Legal Operations.
This is an in-person role - you'll be on-site at our NYC office 5 days a week.
What You’ll Do
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Own the target-state data architecture — ingestion, modeling, semantic layer, and serving — with a sequenced roadmap and named trade-offs
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Drive build-vs-buy and tooling decisions across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability
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Own data trust: make freshness, correctness, and lineage observable; enforce standards in CI
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Maintain a single definitional layer so one metric means the same thing everywhere — BigQuery, HubSpot, board deck
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Build governed foundations for AI features, including identity resolution and canonical entity models
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Lead and grow the team while staying close enough to the code to review hard designs and complex queries
What We’re Looking For
Must-haves:
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8+ years in data engineering, including serving as architect — not just contributor — of a cloud data platform
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Deep hands-on fluency with BigQuery (or Snowflake/Databricks), dbt, Python, and advanced SQL