We're on the hunt for a hands-on, highly technical Head of Data to evolve and scale Overwolf's data foundation.
As our Data Systems Maestro, you'll own the systems that power decision-making across Overwolf - including our data warehouse, pipelines, platform, and the solutions behind internal teams and user-facing products. You'll lead a talented data team while shaping a reliable, scalable ecosystem used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers worldwide.
So if you thrive on turning complex data challenges into elegant solutions, love building high-performing teams, and want to help power the future of gaming and UGC - join our quest.
In this role, you will:
Engineer, maintain, and scale Overwolf's core data warehouse, pipelines, and data platform.
Design and manage reliable ETL and ELT flows across databases, APIs, event streams, business systems, and data lakes.
Own data quality, event tracking, governance, and the company's source-of-truth systems.
Build data solutions for internal teams and external user-facing products used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers.
Partner with business teams to transform data needs into robust self-serve analytics and AI-assisted insights.
Lead and mentor data engineers, BI developers, and analysts while raising the technical bar across the data organization.
Champion accessible data tooling and help foster a data-driven culture across the company.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
7+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in a startup or fast-paced technology company
4+ years of management experience, preferably in B2B2C, marketplace, SaaS, or consumer-scale environments
Proven experience building and leading technical data teams, including data engineers, BI developers, and analysts
Strong hands-on experience designing and scaling cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake
Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL and ELT pipelines, orchestration tools such as Airflow, and analytics-ready data models
Experience owning data quality, governance, event tracking, and company-wide source-of-truth systems
Strong understanding of SaaS metrics, marketplace dynamics, and user behavior analytics
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all levels
Bonus Points
Passion for gaming, creators, and the creator economy
Ability to tame wild data dragons, conquer pipeline dungeons, and keep dashboards flowing before your first cup of mana - or coffee, for that matter
Numbers & Facts
Location
IL
Skills
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
Business Intelligenceunmatched
Business Solutionsunmatched
Business-to-Business (B2B)unmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Corporate Governanceunmatched
Customer/Consumer Behaviorunmatched
Data Modelingunmatched
Data Qualityunmatched
Data Warehousingunmatched
Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
Ecosystemsunmatched
Engineeringunmatched
Gamingunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
Snowflake Schemaunmatched
Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
Startupunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
eCommerceunmatched
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