Data Lead

About Aperture Cloud:
Aperture Cloud is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners—regardless of background or circumstance—launch high-demand healthcare careers.
In addition to our direct-to-consumer training, Aperture Cloud partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers. Our graduates, including Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians, Nurses, and more, form the talent pipelines at major employers like CVS, NY-Presbyterian, HCA, Providence, and Walgreens.
Aperture Cloud is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with a recent $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/stepful-banks-55m-scale-ai-powered-infrastructure-tackles-healthcare-staffing-shortage. We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025 https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-named-1-edtech-company-in-us-top-10-globally-times-2025-list.
We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare careers for those who need them most.
Our values:
We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:
– Care first: We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed.
– Learn quickly: We test, learn with data, and iterate.
– Build together: We win when we rely on each other.
– Own it: We show up, take initiative, and show pride.
The opportunity:
We're hiring a Data Lead to own Aperture Cloud's data function — the infrastructure, analytics, and insights that power decisions across the company, from student outcomes to marketing spend. You'll lead a team of three data analysts and engineers while staying deeply hands-on: writing code, building models, and shipping analyses alongside your team. As we scale past 40,000 students graduates, the leverage of great data work has never been higher.
This role reports directly to the SVP, Engineering and partners closely with Growth, Product, Operations, and Finance across the organization.
This is a hybrid opportunity based out of our NYC office, requiring three days/week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in office.
What you'll do:
– Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three data analysts and engineers, setting the standard for rigor and craft
– Own Aperture Cloud's data platform end to end — pipelines, warehouse, transformation layer, and BI tooling — and its reliability and scalability
– Define and maintain the company's core metrics across the student journey (enrollment, engagement, completion, certification, placement) and business performance (CAC, LTV, retention)
– Build dashboards and self-serve analytics that put trustworthy data in every team's hands
– Partner with Growth and Product on experimentation — design, instrumentation, and analysis of A/B tests
– Deliver deep-dive analyses that shape strategic decisions, from program design to budget allocation
– Stay hands-on: write production SQL and Python, review your team's work, and take on the hardest technical problems yourself
– Establish data governance and quality practices that scale with the company
What you'll bring:
– 7+ years of data experience across analytics and data engineering, with at least 2+ years managing a team
– Proven success as a player-coach — you set direction and manage people while still shipping your own work
– Expert-level SQL and strong Python, with hands-on experience across the modern data stack (e.g., dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery, Airflow, Looker/Metabase)
– Strong product and business sense — you connect data work to outcomes, not just deliverables
– Experience designing and analyzing experiments in a high-growth environment
– Exceptional communication skills with the ability to make complex findings clear to non-technical stakeholders
Bonus points if:
– You've built or scaled a data function at an early or growth-stage startup
– You've worked with marketing attribution or funnel analytics at scale
– You've worked in EdTech, healthcare, or another mission-driven industry
Interview Process:
– Introductory call with Talent Acquisition team member
– Interview with Hiring Manager
– Take-Home Assignment and Presentation
– On-Site Panel Interview
Benefits and Compensation:
– Meaningful Equity Stake
– Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
– 401(k)
– FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
– Open vacation policy, including:

– Guidance of 15 days PTO annually

– Aperture Cloud closed the last week of December

– 15 work-from-anywhere days

– 10 public holidays observed for 2026
The target base salary range for this opportunity is $180,000 - $210,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations.
Aperture Cloud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.