HeadofData

7shifts is a scheduling and payroll platform designed to help restaurant teams thrive. With an easy-to-use app and industry-specific solutions, 7shifts saves time, reduces errors, and helps keep costs in check for over 55,000 restaurants. Our mission is to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of creating a thriving restaurant industry through the power of connected & engaged teams. As Head of Data at 7shifts, you'll own the data function end-to-end: the operating model, the platform investment, the team, and the outcomes. Reporting to the CTO, you'll lead a multi-disciplinary group across data engineering and analytics, working closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, and GTM Data Science to make data central to how the business operates day-to-day. This role spans two big areas of investment. One is the foundation: a warehouse, semantic layer, and modeling discipline the business trusts. The other is activation: models that ship into CRM, lifecycle, and operational systems where data turns into revenue. AI is not a side project here, it's how this function will need to evolve: agents that monitor pipelines, models that score accounts, and workflows that push insight into the systems where work actually happens. You’ll be leading the charge in building this with your team. What You'll Do: Set the operating model for data: Decide how requests flow, what's self-serve versus analyst-led, and how the platform team works alongside the activation team. Bring a clear point of view, run the model with discipline, and revisit it as the business scales Make the foundation trustworthy: Own the warehouse, pipelines, semantic layer, modeling, and governance that everything else reads from. The bar is simple: when a leader looks at a number, they trust it. When the same metric appears in two places, it means the same thing in both Make self-serve real: Most data questions in the business shouldn't need a ticket. You'll decide wh