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About the role

  • Head of Data for the Solana Foundation developing and owning data strategy across the ecosystem. Leading team of analysts and ensuring data drives informed decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the Foundation’s data strategy—what we measure, why it matters, and how it informs decisions across the organization
  • Lead a team of analysts and analytics engineers, each owning a specific ecosystem vertical, and synthesize their work into a coherent cross-vertical perspective
  • Own relationships with the Foundation’s ecosystem data providers, ensuring coverage, quality, and methodological rigor
  • Work closely with client teams (like Anza, Firedancer, Jito, Temporal, etc.) on data-driven assessments of Solana protocol upgrades
  • Drive the data infrastructure roadmap and make decisions on tooling, gaps, and new partnerships
  • Represent the Foundation’s data perspective in executive conversations and external forums

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data, with at least 3 years leading a team or function
  • Deep familiarity with on-chain data—you understand what the metrics mean and where they break down
  • Fluency across DeFi, developer ecosystem, stablecoins, payments, and network economics metrics
  • Strong technical foundation in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience managing a big data platform using modern data warehousing tools (Databricks, Snowflake, ClickHouse, etc.)
  • Proven track record managing external data vendor relationships—not just consuming outputs
  • Strong communicator who can translate complex, multi-signal analysis for non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • None specified

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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