Director of Data

• We're hiring a Director of Data to lead First Connect's data function and build our data into a
• real competitive moat. You'll report to the CPO, manage and grow our lean data team, and
• partner across the leadership table. The role is roughly 70% Build & Operate, 30% Lead &
• Influence in year one, shifting toward 50/50 as the team scales.

About First Connect

• First Connect is an insurance marketplace and aggregator. We connect thousands of
• independent insurance agencies with a wide network of carriers, MGAs, and wholesalers. We
• sit at a vantage point neither agents nor carriers have on their own, and turning that asymmetric
• view into proprietary intelligence is one of the most important things we'll do over the next
• several years.
• What you'll do

• Lead and grow our data team. Set direction, raise the bar, make their job better.
• Make self-service analytics real across First Connect, so every leader gets to their

answers without queuing behind the data team.

• Create a contracts-based partnership with the engineering teams producing source data.
• Build a core proprietary data asset that powers our internal and partner-facing

experiences and anchors real conversations with our carriers.

• Own the data infrastructure roadmap and the question of how we evolve our data

engineering investment over the next 12–24 months.

• Define how AI gets leveraged across our data stack and analytical workflows.
• Be the data partner the leadership team actually wants to call.

Who you are

• You've led a data team inside a startup. You're a player-coach, comfortable

writing SQL one day, pushing back on C-level the next. Startup experience is essential.

• You operate via contracts with source teams, not central ownership of every dataset.

You've held source teams accountable for data quality.

• You're technically broad enough to make warehouse, ELT, and orchestration decisions.

• Fluent in the modern data stack: a major BI tool (Sigma, Looker, Mode, Hex), dbt,
• Postgres or Snowflake or BigQuery or Redshift, ingestion tooling like Fivetran.

• You have a real point of view on AI in data work and can describe what you'd try first.
• You connect data investments to revenue, cost, retention, and competitive position. You

• bring questions, not just answers.
• Nice to have
• Insurance, Insurtech, or marketplace experience. Direct experience standing up a modern BI
• platform.